What’s IT all about?

From “The Open Sourcerer” blog (a good read by the way), is news of Microsoft’s warm and cuddly attitude to world domination.

I would imagine many people are considering mating a HD TV with a Vista-powered Media Centre PC ? Maybe they should read this article before splashing the cash. Scary stuff !

There are a few optiones if you wish to use a free database in your business. Nowadays many are aware of the open-source options such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, but may not be aware of some of the free options from Microsoft, Oracle and IBM. In this article, Leon Katsnelson of IBM evaluates his company’s offering - DB2 Express-C, in a prelude to looking at Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005 and Oracle Express Edition (XE). It’s an interesting read, with the obvious proviso that this is an IBM guy talking about an IBM product.

OK, it’s a blog by a rabid Notes/Domino fan….but interesting nonetheless :

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I guess it really reinforces the absolute commitment to MS software you need to have if you are going to run Exchange, or presumably most of their other server-side software. So much for open standards