Minollo is back on stage next Wednesday. In this week's webinar he explores how to bridge the gap between EDI, proprietary formats, and XML.

• Extracting data from EDI and proprietary files
  Manipulate an EDI file or proprietary files as simple XML documents, and extract information...

Stephan Lahanas posted on the top-10 reasons SOA projects fail.  I think many of his points are very valid (especially the one about how it's the business that matters, not the standards or...

There are different types of marketing... but product marketing, in part, "figures out what to call that thing."

You see, we have a lot of really smart engineers who are doing new things and are very creative about solving...

As you know by now, DataDirect XQuery provides an easy and efficient way to aggregate data available in a variety of data sources and formats, like Relational Databases, XML...

Todd Biske wrote a good post the other day that focused on how governance doesn't mean command and control.

Let me add a few important things to the discussion though: no amount of "management by consensus" will make...

Whew. What a rough weekend.

I was listening to Condi talk on Friday with a sense of relief. The Russians had invaded Georgia and she brokered a cease-fire. I was worried about friends I have there, though, when I spoke...

Been thinking a lot about Software-as-a-Service (or SaaS) this week, and as it turns out, so have a few...

Things have been fairly quiet around here since Microsoft’s Tech Ed event, so I’ve invited Mike Frost, our Product Marketing Manager for ODBC and ADO.NET technologies, to add some of his thoughts that we’ve been discussing over the past while. This is the first of a series of guest postings – Mike...

RTM is a big mile stone for any product - especially a predict first release of final bits *and* you are available, by default in the platform. So I tip my hat to everyone in building 35 for what must be a very gratifying day.
It's been quite a journey since Microsoft flew us up to...