e49 Developers Prepare for New SQL
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Microsoft invitation only event for independent solution vendors involves top developers in the southeast
The development lab and workshop in Atlanta on October 10 and 11 covered the upcoming release of Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005, touted by Microsoft as the most significant product release since SQL Server 2000. The release boasts powerful integration with Microsoft® .NET, native support for XML, and a host of programmatic enhancements.
"Staying at the leading edge of this technology is essential to everything we do for our customers," said Ken Smith, managing partner and chief strategist, "Our clients need effective applications from us – ones that support high volume of transactions and perform with sub-second response times. Our consumer services clients need to be fast for their customers, and our political action clients need the speed as well as to handle a high volume of users. And it must be secure. SQL 2005 provides the best way so far to meet those needs."
"We need to stay up-to-date with anything that works closely with the .NET development framework," said Kurt Schaffer, managing partner and chief architect, "Our ability to maintain consistent development practices so that we can perform reliably for the people we serve is dependent on knowing our tools intimately. Attending the conference is part of our commitment to doing this."
Microsoft SQL is central to episode49's expertise in software development, and for providing content managed websites. Merchant accounts, which episode49 sets up for many consumer services firms, rely in part on the strength of the security in the database product.
"We are often able, in software salvage situations, to provide major increases in security for customers by changing their architecture to .NET. We expect similar advantages when SQL 2005 becomes widely available," Schaffer said.
"Knowing this technology is central to our ability to act as consultants to our clients in assisting them with their digital planning," Smith said, "While they might not implement soon, they need to plan for it. We're ready for that. We plan to implement it in our products, ContinuTrac and Caritas247. This way we'll have the experience for when our customers need it".
