Though Microsoft does not publish separate results for products, SQL server is the company's fourth largest product and IDC reckoned it made about a billion dollars in 2000, so we can assume about half a billion a year on BI (though based on a...
IBM has joined Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net development programme. DB2 developers already use Visual Studio - Microsoft's application for software developers - to create other Windows-based applications.
Microsoft on Thursday offered a glimpse of the new features it's planning to include in future versions of its Visual Studio.Net development tool bundle. Visual Studio.Net, originally released in February, serves as Microsoft's chief weapon in the...
The products were officially introduced at the ongoing Retail Systems 2004/VICS Collaborative Commerce conference in Chicago. The package also aims to aid companies in tracking customer service and inventory issues and to help integrate financial...
In September, Microsoft made the code for FlexWiki - collaborative Web authoring software - freely available and available under an open source licence. Microsoft's Burke said he would like to release the code of Windows Forms as well as a bug...
Also at WES, RIM announced a plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio, letting developers use the .NET programming environment to create applications for BlackBerrys. Mike Lazaridis, president and co-chief executive at RIM, said: "This new developer...