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  • Is AMQP on the way to providing real business interoperability?

    AMQP came from inside of JPMorgan, thanks to John O'Hara. But his vision was bigger than just a new way to do things internally. The standard and open source technologies around it have been gaining momentum. Jeff Gould and others shed some light on where AMQP came from, who is driving it, and where it might be going.

  • SQL Server 2008 RTM Has Arrived

    After more than a year from its first CTP, SQL Server 2008 has finally been sent to manufacturing yesterday, August 6th, according to a Microsoft Press Release. The server was initially planned to be launched on February 27th, and it comes out almost 6 months later, but it is still in the 2-3 years timeframe, the goal set by Microsoft, from the launch of the previous SQL Server 2005.

  • Enter the Cloud with Caution

    Cloud computing seems inevitable, simply because of its business case. Prof. Lewis wrote an article where he recommends caution and provides a series of questions that anyone should answer before using capabilities from the Cloud. Are you using Cloud Services in the Enterprise? What are the benefits and the drawbacks?

  • Jason Van Zyl Discusses Sonatype, The Eclipse Foundation and Maven

    Sonatype, the main company which drives Maven development, recently announced that they are joining the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer. InfoQ spoke with Sonatype CTO and Maven founder Jazon Van Zyl to learn more about this partnership and what it means for the future of Maven.

  • Parallel Mono

    Recently we announced that Mono achieved full C# 3 support. Along with that comes support for Parallel LINQ. Parallel LINQ, part of Microsoft’s Parallel Extensions library, allows developers to quickly make queries execute across multiple threads.

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Released

    Version 1.0 of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP has been released, allowing greater interoperability between PHP and MS SQL 2005. The driver is available for download on MSDN, and the source code for the driver is available on Code Plex.

  • Versioning JPA Entities

    Maintaining a historical view of database records has been a problem that has been solved before but not easily. Being able to restore entities to their previous versions including basic properties as well as their relationships is more than a trivial task. Recently Envers 1.0.0 GA was released, aiming to simplify JPA entity revisioning.

  • New Open Source project provides Object Oriented data access

    Kasper Sørensen has created a new open source project at eobjects.dk called MetaModel. The project is a common domain model, query engine, and optimizer for different types of datastores, such as relational databases and flat files. MetaModel is a Java library that provides a fluent, object-oriented interface for SQL compliant queries.

  • JSR 277 Debate Renews Around Versioning

    Debate has once again arisen in the community around JSR 277, which is a proposed dynamic module system for Java 7. The flashpoint of the debate this time around is the version numbering system that is planned for JSR 277 Java Modules (JAMs). InfoQ examined the discussions and arguments to understand more about the current state of JSR 277 and it's acceptance by the community.

  • The Windows Mojave Experiment

    Microsoft has recently conducted an experiment, called Mojave, in an attempt to quantify the users' true perception of Windows Vista. The results are shedding some light on people's biases and misconceptions related to Vista.

  • Article: An Overview of the eXo Platform

    This article by Benjamin Mestrallet and Tugdual Grall provides an overview of the eXo platform, the Portlet 1.0 (JSR 168) and Portlet 2.0 (JSR 286) specifications. Topics covered include new features in the eXo Web 2.0 Portal, new capabilities in the Portlet 2.0 API, Inter-portlet communication, the eXo Java Content Repository, eXo Enterprise Content Management and the eXo business model.

  • Windows Home Server Power Pack 1

    Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 has been released to manufacturing and is now available on the Microsoft Download Center. This power pack provides new features, better performance, and fixes the acknowledged data corruption bug.

  • QCon San Francisco Nov 19-21 Full Schedule Posted

    The timed schedule for the 3 day QCon San Francisco conference has been posted! QCon is InfoQ's enterprise software development conference featuring over 80 sessions and 70 speakers. QCon is a conference designed for team leads, architects and project management. Last year's QCon SF attracted almost 500 people.

  • CloudCamp's Reuven Cohen Discusses Virtualization and Cloud Computing

    InfoQ recently sat down with CloudCamp founder Reuven Cohen to discuss cloud computing. CloudCamp was formed in order to provide a common ground for the introduction and advancement of cloud computing.

  • ThoughtWorks Releases Cruise: Continuous Integration and Release Management System

    Continuous integration is an agile practice in which each code change committed is automatically built and tested, reducing the cost of bugs by catching many of them as soon as they are introduced. Today, ThoughtWorks released Cruise, extending continuous integration to application testing and deployment. Cruise runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and includes support for .NET, Java, and Ruby.

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