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The article presents an interview with Corey Thomas, group product manager for SQL Server for Microsoft Corp., about the rationale behind the decision why the company did not pursue the separate delivery of WinFS or the second beta for the product. The announcement during the TechEd conference about the release of the products was made in good faith, however changes in the shipment were made just recently after a series of discussions made. One of the things considered for the changes was the data platform and the couple of pillars behind it.

The article focuses on the cancellation of the delivery of the WinFS file system by Microsoft Corp. The company first announced that it is no longer pursuing the separate delivery of WinFS, as well as the second release of the product, which it had long been promising. Peter O'Kelly, an analyst at Burton Group PLC said that the decision was necessary and pragmatic. Microsoft cut WinFS out of both operating systems, Vista and Longhorn, releases so it could ship them in a more timely fashion. Microsoft officials said WinFS would be made available as a stand-alone technology after Vista and Longhorn Server shipped.

The article examines the new operating system, Vista, developed by Microsoft Corp. The computer software company is set to deliver a broad-scale build of Vista to 2 million testers. It is also projected that in concurrence with the launch of the Vista builds shall be the introduction of the Office 2007. As recalled, the two Vista builds, including two interim community technology previews released in the past couple of months to beta testers known as technology adoption program. It was found out that the new operating system has suffered as variety of performance and compatibility problems. INSET: Vista: What you need to know.

The article examines SOAtest 4.5 software developed by Parasoft Corp. which helps Web services development teams transfer inadequate testing to earn an Ivy-league degree in service oriented architecture governance. SOAtest workbench generates and executes tests confirming function, standards conformance, and scalable performance. Its single license price is 3,995 dollars. The author explores the features and key functions of the software, providing details on the aspects of software implementation.

The article reports that PixAlert, a Dublin, Ireland start-up company, has claimed to be the first with software that can find pornographic digital pictures no matter how they enter the office computers. The program does not try to monitor pornography's myriad pathways into the workplace. The software analyzes imagers for features the company say are characteristic of pornography. It has the capacity to distinguish foregrounds from background, discerns the edges of individual shapes, picks out faces and bodies, and measures luminosity and texture.

The article reports that Microsoft Corp., is all set for a host of new collaboration-specific software and service offerings which will enter the market in a couple of years. This information is based on reports that Microsoft has shared selectively with certain partners a blue print of collaborations. Microsoft's shortlist includes a host of new Office Live Server, a slew of Antigen anti-virus services and a souped-up anti-spam package. Meanwhile Microsoft announced the creation of a single internal Unified Communications Group which comprises, productivity applications, the formerly separate ExchangeVOIP (voice over IP) and Web conferencing for business users. Microsoft is expected to come out with details on some of these offerings during two June events.

The article explores the features of new product releases by CA. Together with the release is the plan of the company to capitalize on the common services exploited by the R11 line of products. The first quick release involves the combination of CA's Service Desk and Harvest change management software and initial integration of the Niku Clairty project portfolio management software that the company acquired last summer of 2006. The combination of the three applications is intended to bring coherence to the life cycle management of IT resources and automate steps required to problem.

The article focuses on the efforts of Microsoft Corp. to gain dominance and strong position in the competitive server virtualization market. This is evidently manifested by the release of Virtual Server 2005 R2 and describing its first hypervisor technology. The initiative which is server virtualization will be the key theme for Microsoft during the WinHex conference in Seattle on May 22, 2006. Nevertheless, some critics believe that the company is running far behind in the race. Others also has observed that the virtualization technology by Microsoft is lagging behind compared to other partners, particularly VMware and vendors like Virtual Iron and SWsoft.

The article examines the hardware specifications required by the Vista, the new operating system released by Microsoft Corp. On May 18, 2006, the company released the PC hardware guidelines for Vista Capable personal computers. As stated therein, taking advantage of all Vista features would require that the computers meet the following specifications: 1 GHz processor, 1 GB of random access memory, and 128 MB of dedicated graphics memory. It is inferred that the computers configured to meet the Vista Premium Ready requirements will generally serve the needs of the businesses.

The article provides an overview on the features of Symantec Data Center Foundation (SDCF) developed by Symantec Corp. SDCF includes four product families: Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Server Foundation, and Veritas i3 application performance management (APM) tools. These products span backup and remote replication of data, storage management, server provisioning, and management performance tuning and analysis. Some of the products included in the package are updated to provide the necessary services to the users.

The article examines JDeveloper 10g software released by Oracle Corp. The upgraded software has automatic versioning and differencing in its editor, which creates and maintains versions automaticallybased on operations such as saving or rafactoring code. This refactoring operations include dragging and dropping of classes in order to regroup them into package along with version-control integration. The recent version of the software responds to the challenge with preview support for the nascent standard interface for development environment extensions. It has also import and modeling compatibility for Microsoft SQL server, IBM's DB2, MySQL, and other popular databases like Oracle.

The article presents an technical analysis on CQ2 1.1 software developed by the Enerjy Software division of Teamstudio. CQ2 debuted during the JavaOne conference in California. The said software is designed to lessen the problem of excessively detailed, often false-positive output that is generated by many code scrutiny tools. It offers development managers considerable control in prioritizing and filtering the output from lower-level tools to provide more signal and less noise. It is also easy to integrate with other existing software development tools.

The article features the new product releases by BMC Corp. in its Business Service Management (BSM) initiative, including the second generation of both its Atrium Configuration Management Database and Automated Discovery. BMC is planning to add to its BSM initiative the ability to discover mainframe elements, including hardware, software, applications, and transaction information from BMC mainframe management suites. Moreover, the company held a partnership with IDS Scheer to create a new discovery tool dubbed BMC Discovery for ARIS IDS Scheer, which automates the discovery business process models from the process consulting company's ARIS Business Architect application.

The article presents several products and technologies in the computer industry. It offers information about the performance application of WhatsUp Professional 2006 Premium. The author also presented the costs of a single license for Symantec pcAnywhere and a single license for the host. It also offers information about the availability of the pcAnywhere 12, which allows us to easily connect to systems running the pcAnywhere agent behind a firewall. A list of books related to computer design and architecture is presented with its retail prices.

The article introduces the Internal Controls 3.0 computer software developed by Open Text Corp. The software offers centralized system for managing many types of corporate information. It is designed to help companies tackle issues related to the compliance with government regulations. The product seeks top combine information governance tools, a central control library for indexing information, systems testing capabilities, an automated audit trail generator and reporting features. The software package covers regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Canada's Bill 198; Great Britain's Combine Code and Turnbull report and the Companies Bill; France's Loi de Securite Financiere; Germany's Kontrag; and European Union's Proposed Directive on Statutory Audit.

Reviews the storage visualization software StoreAge SVM 4.3 developed by StoreAge Ltd. INSET: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.

Reviews the business process management software NXJ 10.5 from Unify Corp.

The article reports on updated versions of AppManager suite. NetIQ Corp. recently updated its AppManager suite with the launching of its Version 6.0. The upgrade added several capabilities that provide more service-oriented management of Unix and Windows application. It also allows users to partition or segment who sees which report and which administrator can see data or generate reports. Analyst Corey Ferengul of Meta Group Inc. characterized the latest upgrades as evolutionary but questioned how well it can compete with Microsoft Operations Manager.

The article reports on the plan of U.S.-based software technology company SAP AG to make mySAP ERP 2005 application its core platform until 2010, providing the company's customers a more easily digested enterprise resource planning (ERP) components that they can install on their own. Peter Graf, executive vice president of SAP product marketing, states that the company will not be developing any mySAP ERP 2006 or 2007, noting that the MySAP ERP 2005, which has been shipped since June 2006 is stable for five-years. The 2005 ERP also provides some collaborative tools that allow users to share knowledge and definitions, and can enable customers to search through an xApps hub to locate composite applications that they might consider to install on their mySAP ERP 2005 network. INSET: SAP Rollout Hits Wabash Profits.

The article reports on the scheduled announcement of the new customer-support software Guardian of BEA Systems Inc. on September 19, 2006 at the company's BEAWorld user conference in San Francisco, California. According to Todd Chipman, senior marketing director of the company, Guardian can send an alert that informs users of potential problems like configuration errors, security vulnerabilities and defects and can offer various options to users on how to handle the problem once it is identified. In the meantime, the new software will initially be available for use with BEA WebLogic 8.1 and will generally be made available in December.

The article provides information about the Expression suite developed by Microsoft Corp. The Expression software will let the user manipulate in a drag and drop environments. It produces an underlying code in the Extensive Markup Language. The software, which is designed to compete with Adobe Systems Inc.'s application software, has potentials of being a graphic designer, interactive designer, web designer, and WPF everywhere. Expression suite offers features similar to the Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for graphics, Dreamweaver for Web site development, and Flash technology for interactive motion picture creation.

The article introduces the Oracle Business Intelligence Suite computer software from Oracle Corp. The enterprise edition, which aims to target B1 vendors will integrate analytic tools and applications from Siebel Systems Inc. with Oracle B1 tools. According to James Archuleta, director of CRM at Alaska Airlines Inc., the latest Oracle suite will help ease integration among Oracle database, Siebel analytic applications and PeopleSoft back office applications. In addition, this new suite also will include query and analysis, enterprise reporting, dashboards, workflow, business activity monitoring, and middleware product lines.

The article features several products from International Business Machines Corp. launched as of December 2005. International Business Machines Corp. has launched its IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 software designed to manage and automatically correct online applications, fixing problems across system components. The IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager includes three products, CAM for SOA, CAM for WebSphere and CAM for Response Time Tracking. The IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms brings mainframe automation to multiple platforms in distributed systems.

The article reports on several developments relevant to computer technology in the U.S. as of July 25, 2005. Stellent Inc. has released version 7.5 of its Stellent Site Studio Web content management software, which now offers automated Web site migration capabilities. Mercury Interactive Corp. and Peregrine Systems Inc. have announced a partnership in which Mercury will integrate its application management tools with Peregrine's asset and service management software. WebMethods Inc. has introduced the webMethods for Compliance computer system.

Reports on new products from the computer and software industries in the U.S. Launch of the UPS Trade-Sense software suite by UPS Trade Management Services Inc.; Introduction of the Zenprise software tool by Zenprise Inc.; Development of an integrated blade server system by IBM Corp.