Server and tools bookings were up 15%, and MBD bookings were up 18%.
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Microsoft, in particular, did well, with rising revenue and profit, mostly the result of strength in the Server and Tools and Business divisions.
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Business software sales grew 7%, server and tools revenues grew 12%, and XBox-driven entertainment and devices business grew 30% over the year ago period.
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The newspaper said groups affected by the cuts include Windows, Office, Server and Tools, Online Services and Windows Phone as well as the central marketing group.
Business like Server and Tools, which champions cloud computing and wants to move computation to the datacenter, are in competition with Windows, which wants to keep computing on the desktop.
However, a closer look at segment performance revealed weak Windows revenue and profit, which were offset by stronger results in the Business Division (which sells Office) and Server and Tools (the enterprise part of the company).
The idea of a central management console for all server and desktop administration tools is a complete change for NT users and should give managers greater control over more NT resources.
The software consists of authoring templates, element inspectors, a time axis, a user interface inspector, an extensive javascript library, publishing and validation tools and a content delivery server.
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The customers include Lionbridge, Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA), and EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffered Services, and the post focuses on how they use a combination of Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V server virtualization and System Center management tools to optimize their IT infrastructure and experience the benefits cloud computing has to offer.
The program will on-ramp new technologies, Moonshot Server cartridges, applications, tools, and OSes that plug into the Moonshot environment.
It will include server and client APIs, API libraries and development tools, according to consultant Jon Reed.
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Microsoft's MMC plug-ins - which are management applets that run inside the console - replace many of the old configuration and administration tools that currently ship with NT, such as the User Manager, Server Manager and Event Viewer.
Support for a slew of Microsoft Web tools and technologies, including Active Server Pages, Office 2000, Visual Basic Script and FrontPage 2000.
The office suite includes Exchange, Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Lync Server, among other web-based productivity tools.
Ballmer said the shift to online software and services will mean changes for all of Microsoft's businesses, which range from desktop productivity tools to database and e-mail server software.
Some of its popular middleware tools are Oracle Weblogic Server, Oracle Tuxedo, and Java Software (acquired through the Sun acquisition).
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These new tools feature the capability to drag and drop reusable server components into new applications, which shortens development time, according to Microsoft.
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"CLB is basically a routing service, and now with AppCenter, you have the tools to manage server farms from one console, " says Scott Stanfield, CEO of Vertigo Software, which has been putting CLB through its paces.
"We are giving developers and Web masters the tools they need to create the next generation of Web server applications, " said Jon Kannegaard, vice president of JavaSoft.
With this acquisition, Oracle acquired important middleware tools like the Weblogic Server (a tool for deploying Java based enterprise applications) and Tuxedo (a tool used to deploy mainframe-based applications).
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Fortunately, much as virtualization enabled companies to improve their server utilization, new cloud management tools enable companies to optimize their public cloud usage, improving utilization and reducing cost.
"An Ubuntu tablet is a secure thin client that can be managed with the same tools as any Ubuntu server or desktop, " said Stephane Verdy, who leads enterprise desktop and thin client products at Canonical.
On Sun's part, the acquisition gives the server and software company a database offering that is capable of storing and manipulating the information used by its software tools, a role it has largely handed to Oracle.
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