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Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Systematic SOA Application Projects

Gartner positions Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Systematic SOA Application Projects. Gartner states that the “New development of service-oriented business applications requires a complex collection of capabilities in runtime-enabling technologies and development tools and examines the ability of leading application infrastructure vendors to provide complete end-to-end support for such projects.”

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Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects

Gartner positions Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects. This report aims at helping organizations select comprehensive end-to-end application infrastructure to support composite application projects in the context of SOA and other initiatives.

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Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects

Gartner positions Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects. Gartner states that “Back-end application integration technology providers continue to consolidate as users expand and increase the complexity and sophistication of their service-oriented-architecture driven and software-as-a-service-driven integration requirements.”

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Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration Management for Distributed Platforms, 2008

Gartner evaluated Team Foundation Server from Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2005 product line for this first iteration of the SCCM MQ. Microsoft is positioned as a challenger to the legacy SCCM vendors in the marketplace. Microsoft is listed among the top companies (with IBM and CA) in terms of ability to execute in the future.

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Forrester: IDE Usage Trends

This Forrester report examines IDE usage trends via a survey of more than 700 application development professionals who are actively involved in .NET or Java development. Results of the survey shows that Microsoft Visual Studio is a leading integrated development environment (IDE) in the market today. Among .NET developers in particular, Microsoft Visual Studio is the primary IDE of choice, with 97% usage – "nearly a clean sweep."

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Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers

(Gartner, June 3, 2008) Service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, international e-commerce, proliferating business-to-business projects and changing user requirements are driving vendor innovation and consolidation in the B2B gateway software market. Gartner positions Microsoft in Leaders Quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for B2B Gateway Providers.

Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers, 2008

(Gartner, April 24, 2008) Foudnational EAS technology is evolving to meet the challenges of constant innovation in business software. Gartner positions Microsoft in Leaders Quadrant in the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers.

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"The Hurricane Management System…brought together everything in the SharePoint site. It was based on a tight integration of SharePoint Portal Server, Virtual Earth, and SQL Server." — Stephen Fortune, Information Management Director, Gulf of Mexico Strategic Performance Unit, BP

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