Wednesday, July 07, 2004 - Posts
The new SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC Service Pack 3 is an interesting update that must be bookmarked...
The Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Driver for JDBC™ is a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides highly scalable and reliable connectivity for the enterprise Java environment. This driver provides JDBC access to SQL Server 2000 through any Java-enabled applet, application, or application server.
Enhancements added to this driver since its original release include: support for connecting to an instance of SQL Server in a multiple instance environment using just the instance name, making hostname a connection attribute, improved performance, and support for the 64-bit edition of SQL Server 2000.
Interesting for interoperability...
Yesterday evening I was playing a bit with the preview of the new MSN Search Engine... 
It looks promising, it's fast and very accurate on searching, seems really a great work for the moment. Congratulations to all the team involved!
In these days, too many messages agains Internet Explorer are coming out... the last security flaws discovered on IE seems to have effects, and most people and organizations are thinking to forgot the "old" IE for other new browsers (the peak of Firefox downloads in these days is the demonstration of this...).
Ok, I admit that I'm a Firefox lover from a lot of time, that there are better browsers out now, but I don't like to see this rumours against IE. I think that Microsoft must do something for improve IE functionality and security. IE is a little piece of story on the Microsoft world and cannot be forgotten...