San Francisco - Microsoft has been working to link the upcoming SQL Server 2008 database to the company's software development platforms, with some glitches found along the way, according to two separate Microsoft blog posts. ADVERTISEMENT
Using the new Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 software development platform with SQL Server 2008 will require a patch, said S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, in a blog entry published on Sunday.
"For Visual Studio 2008 to support SQL Server 2008, we will be delivering a patch to coincide with the next CTP (Community Technology Preview) of SQL Server 2008," Somasegar said. No date has been announced for this next CTP, a Microsoft representative said.
Microsoft's Data Programmability team identified a roadblock to linking to SQL Server 2008 from Visual Studio 2008 as well as from Visual Studio 2005, which is the predecessor to Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft already shipped a patch enabling Visual Studio 2005 to connect a SQL Server 2008 database. This was done to coincide with the November CTP of the database, Somasegar said.
The Data Programmability team has cited an issue involving design-time connectivity between the Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 platforms and SQL Server 2008.
"This is most significant for Visual Basic and C# developers as it will effectively block the use of any RAD features to aid in the development of their project," said Jason Smith, development lead for Data Programmability, in a blog dated November 26. This problem is principally caused by incompatibility between the SMO (SQL Server Management Objects) layer in Visual Studio and SMO support in SQL Server 2008.
While a CTP has fixed this problem for Visual Studio 2005, a separate fix will be issued for Visual Studio 2008.
On a positive note, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 will drive new innovations for building richer data applications, Somasegar said. He cited LINQ (Language Integrated Query) as a Visual Studio feature providing common query capabilities. Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 last month, while SQL Server 2008, with highlights in such areas as business intelligence and data programmability, is due in the second quarter of 2008.
Tools support for some new features in SQL Server 2008 will become available closer to the database's release, Somasegar said.
"This will give us time to test, optimize, and ensure the best experience for developers using Visual Studio and the .Net Framework with SQL Server 2008," he said.
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The drug apparently mimics the effects on the body of the only known animal Planet.
Experts say the findings might indicate genes in humans that could be targeted to increase lifespan and possibly to identify additional genes important in ageing.
Dr. Linda Buck of the research center says it remains unclear why, depriving the body of all but the minimum amount of calories needed to survive seems to enhance longevity but the Seattle team believe they may have found an easier way to achieve the same effect.
Nematode worms are ideal subjects for studies into lifespan, they are similar in many ways to humans as they have a central nervous system and sexual reproduction; they also only live for only a matter of weeks.
Dr. Buck says they are unable to explain it but it is possible the drug disturbed the balance of two brain chemicals which help the nematode decide whether there is enough food around to justify laying eggs and this, might produce a “perceived, but not real” state of starvation.
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A team from the Trinity College Dublin and the Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK), led by Dr Arpad Palfi and Dr Jane Farrar of the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin used mutant mice that model the human eye disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP). The researchers compared these mice with wild-type mice, testing their hypothesis that changes in microRNA expression may be evident in retinal degeneration.
Retinitis pigmentosa is the most common form of inherited retinal degeneration affecting more than one million individuals worldwide. Progressive photoreceptor cell death eventually leads to blindness. Mutations in more than 40 genes have been linked to the disease and no therapy is currently available.
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Symantec on Tuesday rolled out consumer mobile security software that provides smartphones with a firewall and protects them against viruses and spam. ADVERTISEMENT
Norton Smartphone Security, which shares a common name with Symantec's line of popular desktop antivirus products, combines Norton AntiVirus technology, a firewall, and anti-spam for messages sent via the Short Message Service, or SMS. The software is compatible with smartphones that run the Windows Mobile and the Symbian operating systems.
The antivirus feature detects mobile viruses and prevents users from accessing infected files. The anti-spam feature deletes spam messages and puts them into a separate folder. The firewall secures inbound and outbound network traffic.
Symantec said its goal is to help consumers safeguard their smartphones against mobile threats and put security tools in their hands that already exist for laptops and PCs.
"Unsecure public Wi-Fi or network connections can put users at risk. In addition, Web and e-mail viruses can directly infect smartphones, enabling hackers to remotely control the device, access sensitive information or disable applications," said Rowan Trollope, senior VP of Symantec's Consumer Business Unit, in a statement.
Similar to Norton desktop software, Norton Smartphone Security runs in the background on smartphones, allowing users to perform all their normal functions, such as e-mailing, Web browsing, or conducting mobile banking.
Norton Smartphone Security is subscription-based and can be purchased at Symantec's online store. Users pay a $30 fee and receive a subscription for a year that includes product updates. It will soon become available at other retail locations, according to the company.
Symantec isn't the only desktop security provider realizing the huge potential to offer similar products to mobile users. McAfee this week announced that its VirusScan Mobile software is now available for download on its Web site. The mobile security software protects against threats that originate from e-mail, instant messages, and multimedia downloads. But VirusScan Mobile currently only supports mobile devices that run the Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone and the Windows Mobile 6 Standard Edition.
San Francisco - Fresh off its annual OpenWorld conference, Oracle earned top rankings in a corporate software usage study released Tuesday by ChangeWave, an investment research firm. ADVERTISEMENT
The study also found that 18 percent of respondents planned to spend more money on software within the next 90 days and 14 percent planned to spend less.
The study, which was conducted during October, surveyed 1,780 people involved with IT spending in their organizations, according to ChangeWave.
The study found that 36 percent of respondents use Oracle's BI software in their companies, up eight points from the last survey, which was conducted in July. However, Microsoft followed closely behind with 35 percent, according to ChangeWave. Hyperion Solutions, which Oracle acquired this year, also saw gains for its BI offerings, moving up five points to 19 percent.
For CRM software, Oracle maintained the 26 percent usage rate pegged by the July study, followed by SAP and Microsoft with 17 percent and 16 percent, respectively. Oracle also made modest gains for ERP, rising two points to 32 percent behind leader SAP, which had 38 percent usage. Microsoft showed much stronger momentum here, however, shooting up 15 points to 29 percent, according to ChangeWave.
The organization also asked respondents to reveal from which vendors their companies planned to purchase software in the next three months. Oracle showed a 5 percent uptick, while SAP remained flat and Microsoft dipped by five points.
"Oracle is showing surprising strength in an otherwise calm macro environment," said Paul Carton, director of research at ChangeWave.
Carton also said the findings regarding increased software spending are a positive sign for the industry overall. "The fact is we've seen this downtick all year, and to see it stabilizing now is interesting," he said.
Carton said 83 percent of ChangeWave's pool of about 10,000 potential respondents are in the U.S. and 17 percent are in Canada and Europe, and the survey results should be viewed accordingly. "Essentially, you're looking at the Nasdaq economy and how it buys stuff," he said. But, he asserted, "It's always been great at measuring market share."
The study findings arrive several days after the conclusion of OpenWorld in San Francisco, during which Oracle previewed its next-generation Fusion applications and launched a virtualization product, Oracle VM.
Oracle shares were trading at $20.39 Monday afternoon.
San Francisco - The Software Freedom Law Center, an organization focused on protecting open source and free software, has filed copyright lawsuits against two U.S. companies, alleging that they are redistributing software in violation of the GNU GPL (General Public License). ADVERTISEMENT
The SFLC filed lawsuits Monday on behalf of the developers of BusyBox against High-Gain Antennas of Parker, Colo., and Xterasys of City of Industry, Calif. The lawsuits, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, allege that the companies are distributing BusyBox illegally, without meeting the GPL requirement of providing access to the source code of their implementation.
BusyBox, available since November 1999, is a lightweight set of standard Unix utilities commonly used in embedded systems licensed under GPL version 2. The two companies are distributing "BusyBox, or a modified version of BusyBox that is substantially similar to BusyBox," the lawsuits allege. The lawsuits ask the court to give the BusyBox developers the profits from that software, plus other damages.
But Richard Bruckner, CEO of High-Gain Antennas, said the SFLC is mistaken about the GPL violation. The company, which makes wireless broadband antennas and related products, uses firmware from a company called Edimax, not BusyBox, and makes the source code available, at the request of customers, he said.
Bruckner said he tried to explain the situation in a conference call with SFLC officials, but they hung up on him. During that first conversation SFLC was "already asking for money," he said. "What they need to do is get their act together and read the source code."
If the SFLC doesn't end its threats, High-Gain Antennas may file a countersuit, Bruckner added.
But Dan Ravicher, SFLC's legal director, said the organization has tried to work with both companies and has not gotten adequate responses. The two sides may still be able to settle the lawsuits out of court, he said.
"There is a hope, but since neither defendant wanted to resolve the matter privately previously, we'll have to see if they want to do so now," he said. "In the end, we can hope to settle all we want, but if the defendants don't want to do so, we can't force them to. All we can do is ask the court to force the defendants to comply with the law."
Ravicher also said he's confident in the lawsuits. "The evidence we collected during our investigation was sufficient for us to form a basis for our belief that they are distributing BusyBox and are not doing so in compliance with the GPL," he said.
If either case filed is heard before a judge, it would be the first time that a GPL infringement lawsuit has gone to trial in the United States.
Officials from Xterasys weren't available to comment on the lawsuit against their company.
These are the second and third lawsuits the SFLC has filed on behalf of BusyBox developers Erik Andersen and Rob Landley. The first lawsuit, against Monsoon Multimedia, was settled out of court Oct. 30, with Monsoon agreeing to fix the violation and pay Andersen and Landley an undisclosed sum.
"We let companies do what they like with BusyBox on their hardware, and what we asked in return was that they let us reproduce what they've done with BusyBox on our hardware," Landley said in a statement. "That's the deal embodied in the GPL."
The SFLC assists nonprofit open source and free software projects. Its chairman is Eben Moglen, longtime general counsel to the Free Software Foundation.
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San Francisco - The Free Software Foundation has published a new open-source software license aimed at developers whose code is used for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. ADVERTISEMENT
The new license allows them to guarantee that modifications to software used to power publicly available services will be contributed to the free software community.
The new license is called the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (GNU AGPLv3). It's based on the latest, third version of the GNU general public license (GPLv3), which was finalized in June.
The GNU GPL lies at the heart of the free software movement, whose advocates contend that program source code should be freely available to study and modify. Programs released under the GNU GPL can be copied and redistributed. Developers, however, are free to modify source code and not share the changes if the software is only used inside a company.
The GNU GPL mandates that people who distribute applications built from modified source code also release the changes, but the provision didn't always cover SaaS applications, which have grown in use over the last few years. In those situations, a developer could offer a service based on a modified application without actually distributing it.
Other open-source licenses have been developed that incorporate ideas similar to the GNU GPL.
Affero, a private company in San Francisco, had created a license based on version two of the GNU GPL to accommodate SaaS. On its Web site, Affero said it wrote its own license since it didn't want to wait until the GNU GPLv3 was finished.
SaaS applications are often located on servers in data centers and used for services such as e-mail. Users can access the applications over the Internet via a Web browser and further software isn't required on the PC.
The arrangement means that applications are easier to update and cheaper to run, which appeals to IT administrators.
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