http://mxdj.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Tim Negris Copyright 2008 ADOBE FLEX JOURNAL Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:55:00 GMT ADOBE FLEX JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://mxdj.sys-con.com/read/519695.htmhttp://mxdj.sys-con.com/read/519695.htm Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT To understand the potential impact of Microsoft's cloud strategy and SSDS service initiative on Oracle, IBM/DB2, Sun/MySQL, Ingres, Postgres and other relational or post-relational database management systems, it's important to note that SSDS has nothing to do with SQL. SQL Server Data Services is a dumb name because, while the service is apparently based at the storage level on Microsoft's SQL Server technology, it doesn't use SQL (Structured Query Language) or a variant of it to query the information in the database. It uses a new Microsoft language called LINQ. http://mxdj.sys-con.com/read/514448.htmhttp://mxdj.sys-con.com/read/514448.htm Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:30:00 GMT Adobe's release last week of its AIR 1.0 (Adobe Integrated Runtime) cross-platform platform got plenty of ink. Much of it missed the point. And that's understandable, given that we are tumbling into the next generation of everything all at once right now - SaaS and SOA, Web 2.0, Blu-ray, cellular streaming, and on and on - like a tornado crossing a junkyard. It's one of those times when it's hard to keep things straight.