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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:30 PM

Microsoft Positioned in the Leader Quadrant in Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse DBMS, 2007

Here are the main points from this.... Microsoft is positioned in the Leader quadrant in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse DBMS. The analysts say that SQL Server 2005 is expected to grow in the data warehouse space. Microsoft’s vision for SQL
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:27 AM

SAP to buy Business Objects

There has been speculation around this for some time but it has now been announced that SAP are to buy Business Objects. At a cost of $6.8B. More consolidation of the market. Find out more here
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Monday, August 20, 2007 11:38 AM

Oracle charges for extra functionality

Oracle has released details on the pricing of its Oracle Database 11g software, disclosing that some of the most talked-about features in the new release will be sold as extra-cost add-ons. When the vendor announced the 11g version of its database in
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 4:55 PM

Oracle - Consolidation continues

Just back from my holidays and yet more consolidation of the BI marketplace has taken place! There has been speculation on potential acquisitions recently and Gartner has been suggesting that this market will move towards a smaller number of "mega-vendors".
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 6:05 PM

Still #1 on OLAP report

Good news from www.olapreport.com – Microsoft continues to be number 1 and grow OLAP market share! We have almost one third of the market share (31.6%) (last year 27.9%). We were also one of the few vendors that actually grew market share last year and
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:08 PM

More consolidation - more acquisitions

Another acquisition in the BI market! Hyperion have announced the acquisition of Decisioneering - a decision analysis software and solutions company with the Crystal Ball software - a predictive analytics, simulation and modeling tool. This follows on
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:46 PM

55 patches for Oracle

Its taken them over 3 years to follow suit but Oracle are taking a page straight out of Microsoft's playbook by implementing an advance notice mechanism for its quarterly release of security patches. But what will this tell us? According to Oracle's website,
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:58 PM

Microsoft crashes IBM Lotus Party with migration tools

eWeek - January 22, 2007 At the kickoff of IBM's annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft announced a series of tools to help Lotus Notes/Domino customers take advantage of the unified communication and collaboration innovations that are
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:02 PM

10 Most Influential: Business Intelligence

Who are the 10 most influential players in BI according to Computer Business Review? Take a look. Heres what they say about Microsoft.... "There is no mistaking that Microsoft is putting its heart and soul into developing a set of top-drawer reporting,
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006 12:53 PM

Web Developers take a look at what Microsoft now has!

Yesterday Microsoft announced Expression Studio - a new suite of tools for web developers. I will be working on this new offering to develop a channel for Microsoft. So expect to see more info as it emerges. The Microsoft Expression Studio consists of
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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 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 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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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:05 PM

Business Intelligence Goes Mainstream (VARBusiness)

VARBusiness recently covered the emergence of BI based on a survey conducted by the publication. Microsoft was ranked highest against the pure play vendors. This is a big win and a great example of Microsoft’s BI momentum. Of note: "Half of solution providers
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 3:04 PM

"Microsoft may have multicore price edge"

An interesting article on InfoWorld. Analysts believe that Microsoft may have multicore price edge as we continue to charge per processor for software, not per core. "Microsoft Corp. could have an early advantage over competitors IBM Corp. and Oracle
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