December 23, 2011
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With codename “Project Isotope,” Microsoft is packaging up analytics tools and services for its coming Hadoop on Windows Azure and Windows Server distributions and making them available to users of all kinds.
(Full Story: Understanding Microsoft’s big-picture plans for Hadoop and Project Isotope | ZDNet)
November 26, 2011
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Oracle products don’t really work well together. Oracle’s sales force is extremely aggressive about pushing a suite of products, but has much fewer integration points than SAP. In fact, integration is usually left entirely up to the customer. Oracle is also very reluctant to talk about product roadmaps for fear that future products will cannibalize existing ones
(Full Story: What Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, And SAP Don’t Tell Customers)
October 21, 2011
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Identify the data you care about from the sources you work with (e.g. Excel spreadsheets, files, SQL Server databases).
Discover relevant data and services via automatic recommendations from the Windows Azure Marketplace.
Enrich your data by combining it and visualizing the results.
Collaborate with your colleagues to refine the data.
Publish the results to share them with others or power solutions.
(Full Story: Microsoft Codename “Data Explorer”)
June 13, 2011
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Hearing that Windows 8 would use HTML5 and JavaScript for its new immersive applications was, therefore, more than a little disturbing to Windows developers. Such a switch means discarding two decades of knowledge and expertise of Windows development—and countless hours spent learning Microsoft’s latest-and-greatest technology—and perhaps just as importantly, it means discarding rich, capable frameworks and the powerful, enormously popular Visual Studio development environment, in favor of a far more primitive, rudimentary system with substantially inferior tools.
(Full Story: Microsoft has developers horrified about coding for Windows 8)
April 1, 2011
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YFrog’s CEO, Jack Levin. He was one of Google’s first infrastructure employees. Now, consider that Silicon Valley has lots of talent like him. Think about the technology he knows. Hint, it isn’t Microsoft. Microsoft’s technology just isn’t used by many serious web companies that I know. Stack Exchange and PlentyOfFish are two notable exceptions and neither is located in Silicon Valley and they hardly are companies with the scale of MySpace used to have (more than 50 million users).
(Full Story: MySpace’s death spiral: insiders say it’s due to bets on Los Angeles and Microsoft — Scobleizer)
