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Comment I use www.speedtest.net for these comparisons and I'd recommend it. It wasn't dominated by big tech and internet names - think Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook. Past number ones include Ray Ozzie (now at Microsoft), Ashley Highfield (BBC), Eric...
[13 Sep 2007]
Comment UBM has just completed an 18 month migration from Unix to open source and Microsoft's .NET. Despite being the obvious route to the top, a degree from a good university or an MBA isn't always necessary for the IT guy to break into the upper echelons...
[22 May 2006]
Round-Up Addressing potential developers considering a switch to the company's .NET platform, he warned: "You can take the offer from the dark side. Pausing briefly for some polite, nervous applause and considerable chortling from the back, he added: "Why...
[28 Apr 2006]
Comment The web is where a lot of code is being written, and you can go back to the year 2000 and the .NET initiative. In fact, .NET's success has been the primary platform for building websites. Think Web 2.0 and think Microsoft?
[22 Mar 2006]
Comment Secondly, then, government IT should go for standards-based solutions wherever possible - these can be open standards such as Linux or Java, or de-facto standards such as Microsoft's .NET. The latest government IT strategy is not all bad but could...
[01 Dec 2005]
Comment Everything is .NET. If anyone has a right to complain about buggy Microsoft products, it's Ron Markezich, the software maker's chief information officer. In addition to managing the company's tech gear, Markezich and his department function as a...
[15 Dec 2004]
Comment The technology skills most in demand for IT projects have remained fairly static over the past couple of years and include the usual suspects such as SQL, Unix, C++, C#, .Net and J2EE, internet and web, security, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Cisco...
[01 Dec 2004]
Leader Since it set up seven years ago, it has settled on Dell hardware, including the latest blades, a Microsoft platform (made up of Windows, SQL Server database and the .Net web services architecture) and Vodafone for wireless connectivity to fleets...
[16 Nov 2004]
Comment Well, it could have been the world's number one vendor of enterprise applications, SAP, committing to that other widely used application server, Microsoft's .NET. The main alternative to J2EE for application developers is Microsoft's .NET.
[01 Oct 2004]
Comment Steve Butcher is a principal consultant in Avanade's .Net practice, where he advises on mobilising enterprise software. That's the message from Steve Butcher, a consultant for Microsoft integrators Avanade, and Jim Hanson, associate director of PR...
[15 Sep 2004]
Comment Web services wouldn’t exist without all the work that’s gone into the development of application architectures that take most of the work out of the software plumbing - Enterprise Java (J2EE) and Microsoft’s .Net architecture.
[23 Apr 2004]
Round-Up Commenting on Microsoft's efforts to entice developers to .Net, he said: "You can take the offer from the dark side. Failing a successful resolution of the various sticking points, Google's chiefs might take a leaf from the Microsoft PR book of...
[16 Apr 2004]
Comment Microsoft is betting billions and years of development on its .Net software framework. It is well on the way to building an open source version of Microsoft's .Net development platform. The .Net framework has often been seen as a bid by Microsoft...
[17 Feb 2004]
Comment On Microsoft and its big web services offensive, he says: "Imagine no one was doing Java and everyone was doing .Net. Sometimes we interoperate better with Microsoft than Microsoft does. The world hasn't figured it out but Microsoft has and they...
[30 Jul 2003]
Round-Up Things look grim for the Microsoft chairman until he's rescued at the last minute by Steve Ballmer swooping down in a Microsoft .Net-branded helicopter leaving one degree of separation between Bill's snazzy Dunlop trainers and the clutching hands...
[04 Jul 2003]
Comment Conventional wisdom - okay, conventional short-hand by, among others, the media - pits Microsoft on one side with its .Net technology against most of the rest of the world on the other, backing Java in the form of J2EE.
[19 Jun 2003]
Comment With two major camps emerging (in the .Net and J2EE Java corners respectively) and certain markets already fairly sewn up several big boys, it is likely those same players are likely to want to cherry pick the best minnows.
[02 Jun 2003]
Comment Now this might sound like the idea behind Microsoft's .Net Passport with one account for all online services but this is different. Last week Bango.net announced Bango Fingerprint, which provides a unique identity aimed at smoothing the...
[12 May 2003]
Comment If this server OS - in all its seven incarnations - and the simultaneously released Visual Studio .Net 2003 and SQL Server 2000 64-bit version are better for a bit more attention, let's not knock it. Microsoft has come out with a major product...
[24 Apr 2003]
Comment A quick scan of available information would suggest options are limited - first you chose between either Microsoft .Net or Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform as your base technology. Siebel has two completely different versions of its...
[20 Mar 2003]
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