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24 August 2004
SPS: link in email
Some guy at Microsoft developed an add-in for Sharepoint Portal Server Document Libraries, in which a link to a document can be send directly through email... usually a thing we do about a million times a day, although we have to use some annoying copy-paste actions. Why isn't this available as default function, people?
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22 August 2004
Product Pricing Primer
Eric Sink provides a collection of issues to consider when making decisions about the price of software products.
Eric is the founder of SourceGear, a developer tools ISV located in Illinois. Eric recently visited a 12-Step program for people who can't stop using alliteration in the title of their columns. They kicked him out for refusing to admit that he has a problem. Eric's weblog is at http://software.ericsink.com/.
Product Pricing Primer
21 August 2004
Service Performance Advisor
Service Performance Advisor is a server performance diagnostic tool developed to diagnose root causes of performance problems in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system, particularly performance problems for Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and the Active Directory directory service.
Download this tool on this page.
20 August 2004
SQL Server 2005 beta
Something you might already have noticed – but I have to make sure you are up to date on this one:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Yukon) Beta 2 has just been released on MSDN subscriber downloads.
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18 August 2004
Which SOA platform?
Brian Salzman writes in a comment on Loosely Coupled about the options we have when choosing a SOA vendor. We could pick:
- App. Server providers like IBM, BEA and Oracle
- Enterprise software providers like SAP, and
- Middleware providers like WebMethods, TIBCO and SeeBeyond
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09 August 2004
Project failure
"Failed projects may drain a good deal of time and money, but they do have one redeeming quality: They can provide your team with the experience and data it needs to do things right the next time. Unfortunately, few organizations know how to analyze their failures in a way that yields helpful results. Even the most prestigious organizations can take a wrong turn early on, changing the failure investigation into yet another failed project."
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