Stories by Carol Sliwa

Article | 12/12/2005 Programming options pose dilemma for SQL server users
Only three of Nasdaq Stock Market's 30 developers have expertise in using the native programming language for Microsoft's SQL Server database. So for ...
Article | 16/11/2005 Ballmer on SQL Server 2005
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this week said SQL Server 2005 should eliminate any "last bit of hesitancy" that enterprise users may have about the datab...
Article | 4/10/2005 Sun faced with StarOffice 8 challenge
Sun Microsystems has worked to improve the compatibility of its StarOffice application suite with Microsoft's Office, but it still faces an uphill cli...
Article | 11/08/2005 Ritz Camera looks to Linux for POS apps
Ritz Camera Centers plans to deploy Linux in more than 1,200 stores across the country, joining a growing list of retailers that have opted to run the...
Article | 16/05/2005 MS Office to become front-end option for more app users
Microsoft has tried for years to get other software vendors to use Office as the front end for their applications, according to some analysts. Now it ...
Article | 29/09/2004 Woolworths deploys .Net app in J2EE
Before the start of the upcoming holiday season, Woolworths Holdings wanted to improve the capabilities of the Java-based data-monitoring and alerting...
Article | 21/09/2004 Microsoft updates Visual Studio 2005 beta
Microsoft has yet to release a feature-complete beta version of its upcoming Visual Studio 2005 development tools. But at last week's VSLive conferenc...
Article | 25/08/2004 Utility to make IT framework open-source
US utility, Duke Power Co., plans to go from consumer of open-source software to contributor on September 1 by making an internally developed applicat...
Article | 19/04/2004 Microsoft: Considering 'marginal' changes to Longhorn
Microsoft confirmed this week that it's evaluating features and functional scenarios that might be scaled back in the next major Windows release, code...
Article | 24/12/2003 IBM, Rational reach common ground at the one-year mark
Integration efforts remained a work in progress as IBM marked the one-year anniversary of its acquisition of Rational Software in Lexington, Massachus...
Article | 17/12/2003 Windows Server 2003: Raising shields
There are good reasons why expectations have run higher for Windows Server 2003 from a security standpoint than for any prior edition that Microsoft h...
Article | 22/09/2003 IBM, Microsoft show Web services technologies
IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. staged a demonstration last week to show how the advanced Web services specifications that they have developed will make...
Article | 6/08/2003 MS's Rudder outlines Longhorn server plans
Eric Rudder, senior vice president of servers and tools at Microsoft, spoke with Computerworld recently about the direction for Longhorn, the code nam...
Article | 6/08/2003 Microsoft lays out tools road map
Microsoft this week at the VS Live conference in New York detailed productivity, scalability and performance enhancements that are planned for the nex...
Article | 2/07/2003 Support for Windows NT 4.0 Workstation ends
The extended support phase for Microsoft's Windows NT 4.0 Workstation operating system -- which will mark its seventh birthday on July 29 -- officiall...

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