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Microsoft and Intuit become cloud partners

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Microsoft and Intuit today announced plans to integrate their two cloud platforms – the Intuit Partner Platform and the Windows Azure platform – to power developers to create apps for users of the Quickbooks software. In addition, Intuit will place Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity apps in the Intuit App Center for small businesses.

The deal is non-exclusive but Intuit is naming Windows Azure as its preferred partner and is making the Azure software development kit available for developers creating apps on the Intuit Partner Platform.

The idea, of course, is to link Microsoft’s business applications to the financial data that’s found within Quickbooks to help businesses operate more efficiently. For months, Intuit has been working to push the cloud and open its arms to developers.

In July, Intuit launched an open-source community where users could share information to enhance the apps on Intuit’s platform. Prior to that, the company announced Federated Applications, which allows developers to use any programming language, host those apps on any cloud infrastructure and connect them to Intuit’s platform, marketing them to business customers who use Intuit products.

Microsoft confirms SQL Server 2008 R2′s May due date

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

On January 19, Microsoft confirming it officially official, the latest version of its database will be out “by May 2010” and will be on the May price list.

A new  posting on the Microsoft Data Platform Insider blog confirmed the May date. According to microsoft blog, there have been 150,000 downloads by testers of the R2 release. The November Community Technology Preview (CTP) release was the last test build Microsoft is planning to issue for the product, officials said.

SQL Server 2008 R2, codenamed Kilimanjaro, will come in a number of new flavors, including a Datacenter edition and a Parallel Data Warehouse edition (formerly codenamed “Project Madison”). The Datacenter edition builds on the SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise product, but adds application and multi-server management; virtualization; high-scale complex event processing (via StreamInsight); and supports more than 8 processors and up to 256 logical processors. The Parallel Data Warehouse version will be sold preloaded on servers as a data warehouse appliance. Using the DataAllegro technology Microsoft acquired in 2008, it will scale customers’ data warehouses from the tens of terabytes, up to one petabyte plus range, according to the company.

May 2010 might end up a busy month for Microsoft.  Company execs told Microsoft partners this past summer that Microsoft Office 2010 would launch in the May/June 2010 timeframe. As one of my readers noted recently, Microsoft’s Office 2010 beta download site mentions a June 2010 final due date for Microsoft’s next-generation Office release.

It includes the latest versions of:

  • Redistributable components for SQL Server 2008.
  • Add-on providers for SQL Server 2008.
  • Backward compatibility components for SQL Server 2008.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 3.

All versions will be available commercially in May except Parallel Data Warehouse. All Microsoft will say there is it will be out in the first half of 2010 (so its a guess that means it could be in June).

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Microsoft reveals next generation developer tools

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Microsoft has a bunch of news for developers: a simplified product lineup and pricing options for its next generation of developer tools this week, announcing Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 and new features of Visual Studio for collaborative dotnet application development, modeling, and debugging. The official launch of the products scheduled for March 22, 2010, related benefits for MSDN subscribers, and improvements to the actual MSDN website. Redmond insisted on making all of these announcements on the same day, and while we think that will just lead to lots of confusion, we’re still going to try to break it down for you as coherently as possible.

One of the main goals with the next generation of Microsoft’s development platform will be to “democratize application life cycle management” by making it easier for developers, database pros, architects, and testers to work together in Visual Studio Team System 2010, code-named “Rosario,”. Likely two of the biggest feature sets in Visual Studio 2010 will be modeling and testing.

A new tool in Visual Studio 2010 will, as the developers write code, automatically show what unit tests developers should run to validate that code. Another tool will show the developer a new level of detailed information on any bugs in the code after tests fail.

In Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft also will introduce a feature it likens to an airplane’s black box. While running a test of an application, a “black box” records the state of the machine and the application. That way, a tester can look at a debug log running alongside a video replay of the application that was under test and dive into all layers of the computing stack to see where a bug might have occurred.

Visual Studio Team System 2010 will include some pieces of Microsoft’s “Oslo” modeling strategy. The Architecture Explorer will allow architects and developers to build, customize, and see an architectural diagram of an application and enforce architectural consistency on builds of a piece of software. The software will support the Object Management Group’s Unified Modeling Language and domain-specific languages.

Other new features in Visual Studio Team System 2010 will include streamlined installation and configuration processes, new features to encourage agile development techniques like including an Excel workbook that can hook up to the back-end Team Foundation Server repository, and better build management.

Microsoft intends to roll out its software development plans in five stages. After talking about application life cycle management, the next phase will be about improvements in the .NET Framework, especially in Windows Workflow and Windows Communication Foundation, which are two critical pieces of Microsoft’s service-oriented architecture strategy. After that, developers should expect more details about Visual Studio 2010 itself, how companies can build better departmental apps with the next generation of Microsoft development software, and how the .NET Framework and Visual Studio will “enable emerging trends” in software development.

Outsourcing Software Development To Achieve Process Improvement

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Today, most companies outsource at least some of their IT work to India, the United States, and elsewhere — as companies in other nations try to follow India’s lead in providing highly skilled professionals at relatively low price points. Outsourcing information technology related projects like software development and web development to India is cost effective and reliable.

Offshore web development is beneficial because of so many reasons the one is it is cost effective and second one is high standard of quality. All thriving Companies occupying topmost positions in their Business arenas share one characteristic that keeps their market share positions secure and shareholder value growing. They join forces with outsourcing service providers, but instead of using outsourcing just as a tactical means of driving costs or function, they use outsourcing relationships to strategically enable their capability of doing business better than their competitors.

Offshore software development outsourcing offers many benefits, among them faster time to market, lower costs, access to high-level programming talent without hiring hassles, and more time to focus on core competencies. But you’ll get those benefits only if you choose the right outsourcing partner–the wrong choice can leave you worse off than before.

Offshore web application development in India is huge business and companies in India promise their offshore business client to high quality of work for best competitive prices. Offshore web application development is like a backbone of Indian information technology industry. Outsource to India is now become custom and IT companies in India never fail to deliver quality products with high standard of work at affordable prices. Offshore web application development for foreign business clients is profitable to India IT companies related to local IT related projects. To hire web developers of is cost effective and like your own employees work for you to produce best results and output the highly qualitative work. So it is advisable and cheap to outsource IT related projects to Indian companies.

Offshore web development is beneficial to Indian It Companies also because it earns you more profits and more than profit you can earn customer loyalty by producing great results. Offshore web application Development has provided an efficient and effective route to deal with foreign clients, aimed at purely gain in cost cutting methods. Through the deployment of customized and specified web applications, a diverse range of purpose can be served. Offshore web applications or computer programs help you to gain information, collect data and to find out anything that you actually desire. The basic purpose is to get the targeted knowledge and information within a short time. Offshore web application development has boasted the growth of a virtual business market that is working and growing like a real market.

Application developed on Web are generating better business strategies and policies to smoothen the business working and initiating better concepts to gain profitability and success for all. So, when you use web application for your business purpose or your personal purpose, you are actually transferring the data and inputs to make the system more workable and gaining like never before. Companies can’t stop investing in themselves, and that may mean investing in application development even in lean times. When the lean times are over and the fat comes back, companies need to be ready with leading-edge systems and applications that will let them partake in the feast.