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Microsoft's 2008 Server Stack-What's New and Who Cares?




May 15, 2008 —  (Page 3 of 4)
In addition, he said that the new Server Core technology runs only a command shell so that users can administer all the roles supported by servers from command line tools. “One of the things people told us was they didn’t need to run all the extra features of Windows Server 2003, they just wanted to run the smallest amount of code for the role that that server will be performing. If it’s a Web server, they only want to run the Web server functionality. That’s something that Linux has really been able to do these past few years. We have taken that on with this role-based approach for Windows Server 2008.”

Visual Studio 2008 offers key developments in three major areas, said Perera: rapid application development, team collaboration and user experience. It includes visual designers for faster development with the .NET Framework 3.5, improved Web development tools and language enhancements that speed development with all types of data.

While SQL Server 2008 is only available in beta, Perera stated that many organizations, through early adopter programs, are successfully running the software in production today. He said that SQL server offers dramatic improvements in next-generation business intelligence, programmability and ease of management.

SQL Server 2008 capabilities include the ability to store data from structured, semi-structured and unstructured documents, such as images and music, directly within the database. New integrated services allow users to query, search, synchronize, report and analyze data. With this software, users can consume data within custom applications developed using Microsoft .NET and Visual Studio and within SOA and business process through Microsoft BizTalk Server.

“With this version, we thought really carefully about the developer and what does it mean to develop an application across the entire stack,” said Perera. “With SQL Server 2008, the entity framework is sort of a new paradigm for ease of use in programming databases. In an old world of writing database code, one would have had to know very detailed SQL languages. With the entity framework, we can take someone who’s familiar with basic .NET programming and immediately make them a database programmer. So there are some really exciting things that customers are doing around that piece.”

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