Vendor Neutral Database Certification

First saw this off of Planet MySQL:
 New Vendor Neutral Database Certification (Dave's Stuff)
Following the link to the CIW site, there...

Citrix Presentation Server Becomes XenApp

 Citrix is changing the name of its flagship product from Citrix Presentation Server (CPS) to XenApp. More from the blogosphere:
Citrix...

IT Transparency, the intro!

Tomorrow SSC is scheduled to publish an article I wrote on IT Transparency which gives a first person account of...

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Deployment Guides available

Saw this first on Aaron Stebner's blog:
  .NET Framework 3.5 deployment guides have been published on MSDN
Guidance information for both...

Microsoft Security Webcast

This one is geared towards IT management:
 IT Manager Webcast: Dynamic IT and Security (Part 4 of 5): Identity and Access...

Visiting the Charlotte SQL User Group on Feb 27th

I'll be visiting the Charlotte SQL Group on Feb 27th and I'll be doing one of my favorite presentations, Transactional...

Interesting Article about Measuring Performance in Software Test Mag

The Jan 2008 issue of Software Test & Performance Magazine  (available as free PDF download, you can also download back issues...

Journalism Ethics

I try to be pretty careful about what I write about, and now being an MVP and actually getting information...

SQL Server 2008 RTM looks to be 3rd Quarter

On the Microsoft Data Platform Insider blog, there is a post indicating new roadmap dates:
  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Roadmap...

New Technique to Steal From Baggage

I first saw this on funsec security discussion list: 
  Dwarves zipped in
suitcases steal from Swedes

The gist of the story...