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Microsoft Launch 2008

computhomas — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:11:44 +0000

I’ve been to the Microsoft Launch 2008 in Frankfurt last week. The event was really huge, 5000-7000 people listening to the sessions and wandering through the halls. Microsoft kicked off their 2008 products Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.

I attended the database/business intelligence tracks and learnt some stuff about the new SQL server features (Change Data Capture, Merge, Resource Governor, Georeferencing, Filestream data type etc). I still need some time to evalute the features but the final server is released in Q3 at the earliest anyway. My colleagues attended mostly Windows Server and security tracks and were most impressed by the Server Core and the virtualisation Hyper V.

Maybe I will post something about the new features soon, so long you can test the SQL Server 2008 yourself: The feature complete February CTP has been released last week and can be downloaded.

Leipzig 2007

computhomas — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:45:15 +0000

I was in Leipzig this weekend to see the League Cup Final between Schalke and Bayern. The match wasn’t exciting at all, but the city is lovely. We visited the Völkerschlachtdenkmal and had a very tasty meal at Auerbach’s Cellar, which already was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe‘s favorite bar. The beer there was extra inspiring.

[Picture: Me infront of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal]

Bonn 2007

computhomas — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:40:25 +0000

I’ve been in Bonn today. I just had about one and a half hour to see something of the city, so my sightseeing was quite fast-paced

At least i saw the minster (Münster), the Beethoven House (birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven), the university and the Court Garden.

learn more about Bonn.

[Picture: Beethoven statue at Münsterplatz]