Craig Swartz on Microsoft

Views and News for the Northern California Financial, Legal, and ISV Community

July, 2008

  • Microsoft acquires DatAllegro and its Massively Parallel Processing Data Warehouse Appliance

    For those looking into multi Terabyte DW implementations, SQL2008 is quite valuable. With this acquisition there will be more options. See the linked Intelligent Enterprise article for more on this weeks' acquisition: http://www.intelligententerprise...
  • Fiserv to develop on Microsoft CRM platform

    FISERV announced at the Microsoft Financial Services Industry Exchange last week that they will replace their in house developed CRM components with the Microsoft CRM platform, leveraging Microsoft development and enhancing this platform with Fiservs...
  • Truspace 7.6 for 3D web development available for Download (Outstanding Customer Experience means 3 Dimensions)

    The customer experience space is developing quickly. In previous posts we've discussed the impact of Microsoft Surface in the retail space, and in fact as I was passing thru Vegas, there on a larger than life video billboard (arent they all in Vegas?...
  • Corporate Education meets New Media

    Whats the latest thing to hit Corporate training and partner training? Podcasting. Creation of video, screenshots and a combination thereof have hit the corporate environment as both a less expensive vehicle for training, but also a more accessible and...
  • Shop Green, save money via Live Cashback

    I was shopping for a camera since my old SLR didn't survive the 4ft drop onto concrete it was subjected to. I was settling in on a Sony SLR sine they had bought Minolta and would accept my current lenses, but found most places had the same price. This...
  • Top Search Results

    Rather than wonder if the results of an internet search are the best you could get, wouldn't it be nice to see results from the top 3 sites to compare and choose? Just that exists..try Mysearchoff, its a 3 panel site showing results from all three...
  • The Green IT - Microsoft style

    Heres a great blog specifically dedicated to GreenIT, with references, whitepapers and videos on power saving methodologies utilizing Management, Vista, and Windows Server 2008. : http://blogs.technet.com/lmeg The blog discusses the impacts of each...
  • Top Microsoft Blogs relate to Development and IE

    If you measure TOP ness (new word?) on traffic, Sara Fords daily developer tips on utilizing Microsoft Source are at the top - heres the location for developers: http://blogs.msdn.com/SaraFord If your interest lies more in Internet Explorer, whether...