Keynote

Andrew Lees, Corporate VP for Server and Tools gave the Keynote. Its a shame that they can't roll out the likes of Steve Ballmer or Bill for the European Keynotes, however, Andrew did a good job.

Announcements
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- Virtual Server 2005 SP1 - end of 2005 with increased Performance and support for Non-Windows O/S's
- Windows Hypervisor - Launch with Longhorn in 2007
- Compute Cluster Edition in 2006/2007
- SQL Server 2005/Visual Studio 2005/SQL Server 2005 - all to be launched 7/11/2005

O/S
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64-it offers far larger addressable memory space = larger solutions
Trustworthy has improved security
: 1 High Path in W23K this year, as opposed to more is Suse and RedHat
: 0 High patches in SQL Server 2000 as opposed to more in Oracle


SQL Server 2005
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Data Mirror Support
Increased in Performance
CLR built into the engine (.NET Language can be used for Stored Procedures)
Service Broker feature for dependable asynchronous messaging

Holds a 41% market share in SME & 39% in the Enterprise, beats IBM and Oracle. This is NOT based on revenue, which is there IBM and Oracle beat microsoft due to the increased cost of their products.

A fully loaded Oracle 10g costs around $232K, with SQL Server 2005 being $25K


SQL Server 2005 is also 7% faster than Oracle on same kit, see TPC benchmarks
64-Bit gives far greater access to memory

E-Learning
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Free e-Learning until 7/11 at www.microsoft.com/learning for SQL Server 2005 and VS 2005

Case Studies
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Paris Firefighters = using SQL Server 2005 and App written in VS 2005

Dynamic Systems Initiative
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includes: Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, Systems Management Server 2005 = Systems Centre
Heteregenous support via adoption of WS-Management
Support for complete stack : H/W -> O/S -> Application

Policy led, not Topology
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Federated Identity = Active Directory
Authentication and Authorisation = Identity Management Server & A/D
Federated Data = SQL Server
Universally Addressable = ipv6
Define Boundaries = "Network Access Protection" in Longhorn, i.e. Is It Patched/Has it Anti-Virus
Secure Boundaries = ISA Server

Windows costs 13/14% less in cost to patch than Linux

Exchange
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Exchange SP 2 & Mobile 5.0 = Push of email

Other
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Windows Server Update Services = unified patch catalogue for all Windows Products
IE 7.0 (linked with Anti-Virus (Sybari) and Anti-Spyware (Giant)
Windows OneCar (No idea what this is)
Common Engineering Criteria = the grouping of infrastructure elements within context