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November 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:44 AM

SQL Server 2005 overtakes Oracle dwh - 270TB!

November 20, 2006 Computerworld "At the annual conference of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) user group, Microsoft said it is designing a 270TB multinode data warehouse for a foreign government. Microsoft is also working on a 162TB
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:28 AM

Bill Gates on Vista, Linux and more

CNET - November 17, 2006 In the second part of a Q&A, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates reveals anwers to questions such as... What is his favorite feature in Windows Vista Why he'll keep pushing for a new file system What role he sees open source software
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:58 PM

Marketing Training for Partners - new dates released

Marketing 101 – New dates for January & February Due to high demand from partners, the following new dates have been added to Marketing 101. This 1 day Instructor Led course is ‘ideal’ for new starters at a Microsoft partner responsible for marketing,
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:47 PM

Sometimes Microsoft does things very well

Title of article: Sometimes Microsoft does things very well Link: http://www.it-director.com/technology/applications/content.php?cid=8898 Date: 1 November 2006 Analyst: David Norris Company: Bloor Research Extracts: "As I sit here writing this on my Apple
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:38 PM

Partner-TV Launched

Background We have collected a lot of feedback from Partners over the past few months to understand how they want to receive information from Microsoft. In addition to the Partner web site we have now extended PTS- TV to a wider audience with Partner-
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:07 PM

Vista Demo Readiness Toolkit

An unparalleled Windows Vista Demo environment If you're a Microsoft Partner then you will be very interested in the Windows Vista Demo Readiness Toolkit (DRT). This is the best demo environment a partner can get to show off all the new features in Vista
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:17 AM

More Advanced SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Training

Reporting Services training available - May 2007 31 May 2007, Reading: Advanced SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Learn about the advanced techniques for building reports with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and the Microsoft Visual Studio-based
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Friday, November 10, 2006 2:21 PM

All the names are taken!

I came across this fascinating article online by Dennis Forbes about domain names. It has loads of interesting stats including: All two- and three-letter .com domain names have been taken. 80 per cent of four-letter names have gone The most popular domain
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:02 PM

Training - Advanced SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

Partners have been asking for SQL BI Training so wanted to flag this TechNet event to be held on the evening of 23rd November 2006. Target Audience: Architect, Developer, IT Professional and Technology Decision Maker. Here is the Event Overview Overview
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 6:11 PM

SQL User Group

I’ve had a number of partners ask me about SQL User Group this week – so thought I would share the link. http://sqlserverfaq.com/ Published with BlogMailr
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 5:24 PM

New Partner Portal Live!

Our new Partner Portal is live! It has been designed to help our partners get access to the right information for their business. Last year we saw a 37% increase in usage of this site. Apparently the portal is the culmination of over two years’ research
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 4:32 PM

Dashboard Ubiquity - what is that?

An article on Dashboard Ubiquity was recently published by TDWI. There is reference to a whitepaper written by Wayne Eckerson called “Dashboards and Scorecards“. This is an interesting read because it covers the convergence of BI and CPM. IT also discusses
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 4:23 PM

BI Tools - Microsoft leads growth

The latest research by IDC shows Microsoft is ahead of the pack in terms of growth in the business intelligence (BI) tools market. Microsoft is leading all legacy pure-play and database vendors in BI revenue growth. In addition, ProClarity, an advanced
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 4:16 PM

Gartner Magic Quadrant - Microsoft moves!

Gartner have just released the 2006 Gartner Data Warehouse Database Management Systems Magic Quadrant. And Microsoft has moved position! "significant progress Microsoft has made in the Data Warehouse (DW) Database Management Systems (DBMS) market, moving
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 4:03 PM

Microsoft Wants More From Its ISV Channel for Windows Vista

Following on from the ISV article below - Windows Vista presents a great opportunity for ISVs to get involved with Microsoft. Channel Insider - October 24, 2006 Less than 3 percent of Microsoft ISVs are driving 80 percent of revenue. Often vendor channels
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:05 PM

IDC: Microsoft ISVs Outperforming Peers!!

Great news for our ISVs!!!! ISVs participating in Microsoft's competency program are more successful than their peers, even those building on Microsoft but outside the program - according to an IDC report released in October. IDC interviewed 365 ISVs
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 12:38 PM

Microsoft Server - Database Business Blooms

"Microsoft Server, Database Programs, Once Derided, Boost Sales" - by Dina Bass Bloomberg News - October 26, 2006 I liked this article. It includes lots of speculative numbers but the overall message is - the perception of Microsoft SQL Server has changed
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 12:29 PM

Microsoft Sales Toolkit Arrived

The new edition of the Microsoft Sales Toolkit (Gearup) has now arrived…and it’s pink!? (What were the marketing guys thinking?) This edition runs from October 06 to March 07 and has been updated to include the EVO products and customer campaigns. With
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