The most popular application platform by John Charles Olamendy On Aug 21, 2009
IDC has conducted a Mission Critical Application Platform Study of 500 North American companies that have over 1,000 employees. The study found that Windows is the most popular operating system for mission-critical applications, Microsoft .NET is the most popular application technology platform, and Microsoft has the highest customer satisfaction level of all vendors. You can read more at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/ReportsDetails.mspx?recid=49.

I've been awarded as Mindcracker MVP for 2009 by John Charles Olamendy On Aug 19, 2009
I've been awarded as Mindcracker MVP for 2009.

Analyst: Oracle Database 11g Easier to Manage than SQL Server 2008 by John Charles Olamendy On Aug 12, 2009
In a recent comparative management cost study, Edison Group analysts found that Oracle Database 11g holds a big advantage over Microsoft SQL Server 2008 when it comes to features that help database administrators perform everyday administrative tasks

Microsoft Deprecates System.Data.OracleClient by John Charles Olamendy On Jul 28, 2009
Microsoft announced its deprecation of System.Data.OracleClient, also known as Microsoft OracleClient. Microsoft OracleClient developers are now looking to migrate their existing .NET data access code to ODP.NET, not only for Oracle's long term ODP.NET support, but also for the ODP.NET's unique performance and feature benefits.

I've been awarded as Microsoft MVP for the third year by John Charles Olamendy On Jul 01, 2009
I'm very pleased to announce that I've been awarded as Microsoft MVP for the third year.

I've been awarded as Microsoft MVP for the third year by John Charles Olamendy On Jul 01, 2009
I'm very pleased to announce that I've been awarded as Microsoft MVP for the third year.

Oracle ACE Award by John Charles Olamendy On Dec 15, 2008
I'm very pleased to announce to my fellows in the CSharpCorner Community that I've been awarded as Oracle ACE. This award is similar to Microsoft MVP. I want to share this to you because I think it's very for CSharpCommunity as well. Thanks, Mahesh for your email and your blog. I really appreciate it. Thanks, John.

Next Version of BizTalk Server by John Charles Olamendy On Jul 11, 2008
Today, Steve Martin announced a few details about the next version of BizTalk that will be available in early 2009. The release will be BizTalk Server 2006 R3, and is an incremental release of BizTalk and not related to the future Oslo releases. In the main this is a this compatibility release to support the 2008 wave of products.(Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio.NET 2008). Expect a CTP later in the year and full release after SQL 2008 goes gold.

Re-awarded as Microsoft MVP 2008 by John Charles Olamendy On Jul 01, 2008
I'm very happy to announce that I was re-awarded as Microsoft MVP 2008. I'll do my best this year in order to contribute with good articles to the CSharpCorner Community.

Nokia to Add Silverlight Support by John Charles Olamendy On Mar 05, 2008
Nokia has announced plans to make Microsoft's Silverlight available for Nokia's S60 platform on Symbian OS in the near future, and for Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets down the road.

IBM Bows Multi-Domain Master Data Management Server by John Charles Olamendy On Feb 01, 2008
Service-Oriented Arquitecture and Enterprise Application Integration principles are also applied to the integration of data. Master Data Management technologies are emerging one to solve master data integration. IBM is also addressing this new market.

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released by John Charles Olamendy On Nov 20, 2007
Microsoft has released the last version of Visual Studio and .NET Framework family of products.

Microsoft announces Oslo. A new SOA initiative. by John Charles Olamendy On Nov 02, 2007
Today at the SOA Conference in Redmond Microsoft publicly announced Oslo. The next generation of Service Oriented Technologies that will be included in the next major wave of product releases.

Strategic Thinking. by John Charles Olamendy On Oct 29, 2007
Somasegar has written a good reflection about the buzzword "Strategy".

ALT.NET Conference by John Charles Olamendy On Oct 15, 2007
Simon Guest blogs today about ALT.NET Conference

New C# Language Features. by John Charles Olamendy On Oct 03, 2007
Somasegar has blogged about the new C# features which can help you be more productive.

Google, Microsoft describe next-gen 'Office 2.0' by John Charles Olamendy On Sep 07, 2007
As Web 2.0 technologies continue seeping into business systems, a new generation of corporate users is starting to gain access to the collaboration capabilities they are demanding from IT, according to attendees at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco this week. But before use of the tools spreads too far, they noted, companies must strike a balance between the Web 2.0 wants of users and the needs of corporate IT.

MOSS and WSS SDKs by John Charles Olamendy On Aug 24, 2007
The SharePoint team releases a new version of MOSS and WSS SDKs.

Rest and WS-* by John Charles Olamendy On Jul 24, 2007
There is an interesting debate between REST and WS-* complexity as implementation of SOA.

Microsoft has awarded me as MVP. by John Charles Olamendy On Jul 02, 2007
I am really happy to announce that Microsoft awarded me as a MVP for this year. I am really looking forward this year for doing as much contributions as I can to the developer community.

IIS and Apache by John Charles Olamendy On Jun 25, 2007
Recently I read an intested blog that talks about IIS and Apache.

IIS and Apache by John Charles Olamendy On Jun 25, 2007
Bill Staples who runs the server products within the Developer Division (Web Server, Media Server and Commerce Server) wrote an interesting blog that talks about IIS and Apache.

Oracle Database 11g will be released on July 11. by John Charles Olamendy On Jun 08, 2007
Oracle has committed to launch the new version of Oracle Database 11g on July 11. I've been recently blogging about accessing Oracle Database from Microsoft.NET using ADO.NET. Oracle Database is a great RDBMS.

ESB Message Metadata and BizTalk by John Charles Olamendy On Jun 05, 2007
Metadata is data about data. In Biztalk, when we receive a message, we need to associate data to this message describing the source trade partner and endpoints and other contextual information. This is a great documentation about Message Metadata in Biztalk.

BizTalk Server 2006 Posters by John Charles Olamendy On Jun 05, 2007
I found a set of technical Biztalk Server 2006 poster to download. That's a good picture of BTS.