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In Brief: CarPoint acquires Driveoff.com

June 19, 2000
The acquisition will give CarPoint users the ability to purchase automobiles online

In Brief: MSN Invests $90 Million In Asia

June 19, 2000
Most of the funds will be invested in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to increase MSN brand awareness and to provide new localized versions of MSN services

Windows 2000 DataCenter Targeting High-End Unix Servers

May 22, 2000
In-depth look at the DataCenter market, technical features exclusive to the DataCenter version of Windows 2000, hardware manufacturer support, and prospects for success

Unisys ES7000 Architecture

May 22, 2000
Diagram of a fully configured Unisys ES7000 system, expected to be the first Windows 2000 DataCenter machine supporting greater than eight processors

New Generation of Hardware Needed for DataCenter To Scale Beyond Eight CPUs

May 22, 2000
An overview of hardware capabilities typical of Windows 2000 DataCenter servers, including memory, I/O, and disk storage architecture as well as monitoring / management and hardware partitioning features

XML Hooks SQL Server into Next-Generation Applications

May 22, 2000
XML-related improvements in SQL Server 2000 offer the first available in-depth look at Microsoft's upcoming Next Generation Windows Services application architecture

Supporting XML messaging with SQL Server 2000

May 22, 2000
Diagram shows how SQL Server 2000 could support XML messaging in a hypothetical business-to-business application

The SQL Server 2000 Web Architecture

May 22, 2000
Diagrams the three major pieces that provide Web access (i.e., HTTP request and HTTP response) to SQL Server 2000 databases

New Document Storage and Indexing Features

May 22, 2000
An overview of new capabilities that make SQL Server 2000 more attractive for storing Web content or documents in knowledge management applications

XML Concepts and Technologies

May 22, 2000
A tutorial defining Extensible Markup Language (XML), schemas and languages for writing schemas, style sheets and the Extensible Style Sheet Language (XSL), and XPath (a query language for extracting information from XML source documents)