To get on the Microsoft Life Support System, as Apple has been for a long time, Sun has cowed to Microsoft's dominance. Can IBM hold .NET back singlehandedly?
Update: Of course IBM will always have support from the PRL.
Microsoft has shipped a beta for a tool that analyzes SQL Server objects,
Microsoft SQL Server Best Practices Analyser, to conformance to best practices, similar in concept to
FxCop for .NET code. [via
Chris Sells]