Small Business Server 2003 Pricing. Next week, Microsoft is scheduled to formerly announce pricing for Small Business Server 2003 and addition of a second product version. (Yesterday, a Microsoft speaker inadvertently pre-announced pricing during a public event.) Small Business Server 2003 will come in a… [Microsoft Monitor]
Month: September 2003
It's All About Development
It's All About Development. A number of factors account for Microsoft's market success. But, one of the most overlooked is the company's relationship with software developers. Microsoft is, in fact, midway through a software developer relationship course correction that competitors would be wise not to ignore … [Microsoft Monitor]
Unheavenly Days for the Catholic Church
Unheavenly Days for the Catholic Church. In new books, Peter Steinfels and David Gibson agree that under the Catholic Church's current troubles lie more troubles yet. By R. Scott Appleby. [New York Times: Books]
NBC/Universal: Deal of the century?
General Electric/NBC has been declared the winner in the Vivendi Universal auction
NBC/Universal: Deal of the century? General Electric/NBC has been declared the winner in the Vivendi Universal auction. The final terms have yet to be determined, but GE has been declared the last bidder standing. Most of the Vivendi media assets would be merged with NBC, and the resulting company, with assets of over $13 billion, would… Continue reading
NBC/Universal: Deal of the century?
General Electric/NBC has been declared the winner in the Vivendi Universal auction
Security Holes Vex Web Host Firm
Security Holes Vex Web Host Firm. More than a thousand websites hosted by Interland, a leading Web-hosting company, appear to have been hacked in the last week, according to a security expert. But Interland denies there's a problem. By Kim Zetter. [Wired News]
.NET Integration With ColdFusion
.NET Integration With ColdFusion. A very interesting announcement from Montara Software – .NET integration without COM. The soon-to-be-released software is called Black Knight which works with CF 4.x upwards. According to Matt Liotta, CEO of Montara Software, this allows developers to create CFX tags… [An Architect's View]
Chris Anderson is running Longhorn on Virtual PC
Chris Anderson is running Longhorn on Virtual PC. I gotta try that! [The Scobleizer Weblog]
Jas Bains was an intern at Microsoft
Jas Bains was an intern at Microsoft over the summer on the Sharepoint team. I had an interesting lunch with her (about what else, blogging of course). Definitely someone to watch. [The Scobleizer Weblog]
Jobs Report Leads Bush to Defend Reliance on Tax Cuts
Jobs Report Leads Bush to Defend Reliance on Tax Cuts. Friday's bad employment report dashed the White House's hopes of going into the heat of the presidential campaign with clear evidence of an economic turnaround. By Richard W. Stevenson. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
The President's short sighted military model.
The President's short sighted military model.. In a revealing article, U.S. Pressed to Interdict Afghan Drugs, by Matthew Pennington, about opium and lack of stability in Afghanistan, the short-sighted Bush military plan to save the world, is implicated. The failure of the U.S. led military approach to regime change is very simply that it fails… Continue reading The President's short sighted military model.