SBC DotNet Weblog

Some thoughts on Scale and Performance on large scale application development from Hugh Pyle (Groove Software Engineer). Worth reading.

Talking about SBS2K3 from my prior posting - this is an important update: Windows SharePoint Services and Windows Small Business Server 2003 Installation Update. Need it to get WSS running on your SBS2K3 server.

SBS 2003 Best Practices book will be out soon. If you get an opportunity to check SBS2K3 out, do so! In one small contained & complete package you get “everything” to deploy for 75 users (max capacity). It is perfect for a small software development shop and is extemely cost-effective.

Randy states it succinctly as “cheap stunts” - the question to ask, is why did it take Sun so long? Java has been available for almost seven years now. In a free market, bringing benefits to the end consumer should be a paramount goal. It may be that Sun's customer has always been the Fortune 500 (& Government) customer and Sun has little knowledge/experience of the WalMart consumer. Their absence in this consumer market segment cannot be an excuse to get into another bout of Microsoft bashing.

The long-awaited 'phantom' C# Cookbook from OReilly will be available in Jan '04. It has a sample chapter on 'Regular Expressions'  available for download.. something to read during the cold Norwegian evenings ;-)