The people who brought you Microsoft SQL Server and Surface a prototype touch-screen computer the size of a boulder could be about to bring you a smart phone based on the Zune digital media player.
In January 2003 the Microsoft SQL Server worm, known as Slammer, infected a private computer network at David-Besse nuclear power plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, disabling a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The rapid and disruptive shift in the industry toward those business-driven themes have led Ellison to assert a bold claim: new competitive dynamics in the database sector will raise the stakes for Teradata and other relatively lower-profile players that have generally stayed under the radar of Oracle, IBM, and even Microsoft SQL Server.
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Microsoft saw the Raw Iron announcement as an attempt by Oracle to offer another competitive database to Microsoft's SQL Server.
Oracle first announced support for big data with its new Big Data Appliance and Oracle NoSQL database at the Open World conference, and was followed by Microsoft which announced Hadoop support for SQL Server 2012.
WestClinTech launched a product that could do everything Excel can, sometimes more accurately, always faster, but placed it on a server running SQL instead of on a desktop running Microsoft Office.
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With the recent release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server 8 beta, along with this week's launch of SQL Server 2012 and Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP, Microsoft is offering a good look at a new, common set of technologies that spans specialized devices, servers, PCs and applications.
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Even Microsoft is getting into the game with its Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) that enables SQL Server customers evolve their SQL databases to Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture to take advantage of commodity hardware.
While HP and Intel continue to invest in Itanium, Microsoft, notably, announced that it was ending Itanium support after its latest versions of Windows Server and SQL Server.
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Microsoft has a long list of Windows 2000-centric products due out this year -- including Exchange 2000, SQL Server 2000, Host Integration Server 2000, Application Center 2000, BizTalk 2000, and Commerce Server 2000.
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