To all of the developers and aspiring app creators out there reading this blog: I would bet that there’s at least a 50% chance that you dreamt up an awesome app idea around the time of the first iPhone launch. A smattering of you hopped right to it: created your app, sold that puppy, and totally took advantage of a (seemingly) once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
A larger subset of you have been kicking yourself for over three and a half years now for never getting around to writing that darn app. Every morning you head in to the office for 9:00am, give or take, and find yourself gazing woefully at that empty seat where Dave used to sit. Dave, unlike yourself, took rapid-fire action, quickly transforming his app ideas into lines of code, and subsequently into cold hard cash. As a result, Dave is currently sipping Brandy on his yacht, which you know he named The App just to irk you. [Read more...]
With the May 2010 release of SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft made several changes to the licensing, packaging and pricing of its platform for collaboration and Business Intelligence (BI) toolset from the 2007 version. These changes include price increases for select SharePoint products, the integration and addition of new technologies and enhancements products into the SharePoint family and two new server licensing options.
10% price increases on several licenses:
With the changes to the 2010 release Microsoft raised the price of several SharePoint 2010 licenses by 10% in May, 2010. This includes a price increase for SharePoint Server 2010 ECAL, Search Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 license. However, it should be noted there was no price increase for the Standard Client Access License.
A comment I hear all too often about this technology really doesn’t do it justice. Office Communications Server is not just Microsoft’s “Instant Messenger on steroids”. Have you thought about replacing your PBX with an IP-based solution that would drastically reduce telephony costs? What about all the money your organization would save by using Microsoft’s solution for conferencing and communicating between multiple global locations?
“Next generation telephony” is just one of the ways that Microsoft describes the soon to be released, newly-chrsitened version of OCS (2010, unofficially). Here is a technology that provides a single, comprehensive unified communications solution that includes voice, instant messaging, presence, and audio, video, and web conferencing, all integrated with commonly used applications such as Microsoft Office and SharePoint, and infrastructure elements such as Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange and System Center Operations Manager. [Read more...]
A beta of Exchange Server 2010 SP1 is now available, offering new features and bug fixes for the messaging server. SP1 is expected to ship towards the end of 2010, but you can download the Beta here.
The new features include interface and performance improvements to Outlook Web App (OWA), more efficient synchronization of conversation threads for mobile device users through Exchange Active Sync.
Store a user’s personal archive mailbox on a different server from the user’s primary mailbox allowing archive servers to have separate hardware storage, maintenance routines and fault tolerant configurations.
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