Microsoft released long-awaited updates to its database and programming tools to developers on Thursday in the United States and revealed a plan to lure new database customers.
In a sign of growing discord over Web services guidelines, Microsoft has pulled out of a key Web services standards working group.
For months, Microsoft watchers have voiced concerns that delays in the company's introduction of its Yukon database software could derail other products, including a new version of Windows, code-named Longhorn.
These days, any news about Sun Microsystems seems decidedly glum.
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