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Old computers at Dallas Children’s Museum
We went to Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, for my son’s spring break. My brother’s family just moved there recently. With everybody being new to the area, I didn’t know which place to visit for some fun. Naturally, I started looking for Children’s museums. Some web search revealed there is a place called Dallas…
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Don’t over do it, Sql Server; Watch out, Oracle
SQL Server 2005 was released in November, 2005. I actually played with it much earlier than that. Overall, I am pretty happy with it. I think it is a great product, and will give Oracle’s namesake RDBMS a run for its money. Previously, there were a lot of arguments against Sql Server for its perceived…
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Vista, SQL Server 2005, AJAX, and Web 2.0
Ken’s question made me think about Vista’s impact. Virtually all Microsoft’s products depend on the win32 API, so I wonder how much of change can Vista make? In other words, if Vista breaks win32 API calls, the cascading effects it has on other products like SQL Server, Exchange, BizTalk, Office, etc., would be tremendous. It…