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- Another way to build open source databases
- Rather than build such tools into each open source database, the Open Database Model hopes to create the sophistication, so all databases can be enterprise-class. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, Open-source Database, Sky Builders, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
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- Where open source will be sucked into the downdraft
- Where open source will be sucked into the downdraftPure play open source is not going away ...... bad business models are.I've run a pure play open source company for seven years and expect to be around for many more. We have a unique business model called "spend less than you...
- Tags: Pure-play open source, open source, downdraft, economic downturn
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OS
- Windows Strata = Microsoft's layered cloud OSThe cloud providers fully support the platform the provide. On the otherhand, try to get help from MS for problems with your application hosted on Rackspace. It will be a LONG wait.And, end users have to pick their poison. No matter which platform they...
- Tags: Operating systems, Windows Strata, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- BI Crystal Ball – Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think
- Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...
- Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- From the vault: Lisa demo
- From my forthcoming book, Corporations that Changed the World: Apple Inc. After a tour of the Xerox PARC Palo Alto Research Center laboratories in December 1979 and a demonstration of their Alto computer, Steve Jobs decided that the Graphical User Interface GUI was the future of computing. Apple traded...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Xerox PARC, Lisa, Productivity, Podcasts, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Kids NetLinks Google Browser (zip)
- Kids NetLinks Google Browser provides kids of all ages 1 button click access to maps, astronomy, translations, videos, and images. Just 1 click sends user to images and research of the entire universe via Google's Sky and Map web applications. Also 1 click access to Dora and Diego videos and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Video, Web Browser, Kids NetLinks, Kids NetLinks Google Browser, Corporate Communications, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-10-07
- JVC KW-NX7000 navigation/DVD receiver
- The JVC KW-NX7000 isn't cleverly named like its sibling the El Kameleon, but it is just as cleverly designed. With its smart features, such as the proximity-based interface or the flash-memory-based navigation data, we found the KW-NX7000 extremely easy to use. However, it was the fun little touches, like the...
- Tags: Memory, Flash memory, Digital music, Digital media, Consumer electronics, add-on module, JVC, JVC KW-NX7000, SD card
- Product reviews 2008-10-01
- Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionals
- Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionalslousy US economy means lousy global economyI was having a similar conversation last night at dinner with a fellow architect from India. He was describing how off-shore development shops in India are worried that the economic slow down...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- SOA soon part of the 'cloud'? Hold that thought
- SOA soon part of the 'cloud'? Hold that thoughtJust more proof that SOA...is pie in the sky. No one knows or can agree on what it is or what it should be. It is simply too ethereal to ever be a solid part of the IT environment. Nothing should...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?So what is the source of the issue?It's one thing to make such a spectacular claim it's another to provide some real evidence. Why would they be emitting a toxic smell? Might this be the case with other computers too?No wonder MBP fans love...
- Tags: benzene, MAC Pro, Apple Inc., toxin
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Blue Sky POS Express (exe)
- Blue Sky POS is a customer-centric point-of-sale system designed to incorporate key business functions into one seamless POS and back office solution including quick check-out POS, bar coding, payment processing, customer loyalty, cash drawer balancing wizard, inventory control, and more. Blue Sky POS arms independent retailers, chain stores and franchisers...
- Tags: Point-of-sale, Blue Sky POS
- Software downloads 2008-09-29
- Suddenly the MacBook Air doesn't seem so expensive anymore. . .
- As rumored, Sony announced its new ultraportable this week. The old VAIO TZ series was a slick ultraportable, and the new VAIO TT series looks even better, though I'll wait for some full reviews for confirmation. In the meantime, the list of available options-- carbon fiber chassis that weighs 2.9...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Burner, Apple MacBook, Blu-ray, Fiber, Network Technology, Desktops, Networking, Hardware, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- The world's simplest definition of 'SOA': hmm...
- The world's simplest definition of 'SOA': hmm...Services Oriented Building or Service Oriented DesigningAccording to our friends at Wikipedia: "The word "architecture" comes from the Latin architectura and that from Greek αρχιτέκτων architekton, "master builder", from the combination of αρχι- (archi-), "chief" or "leader" and τέκτων tekton, a "builder" or...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Petreley, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Oracle: CRM software demand bubbly; Social networking meets enterprise data
- Oracle's Anthony Lye, senior vice president of the company's customer relationship management software unit, said demand is growing at a rate he hasn't "seen since the bubble times." Lye also argued that social networking is rapidly becoming another dataset for enterprise applications to analyze. When coupled with business analytics from...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Network, CRM Software, CRM, Social Networking, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Software, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
- Photo gallery:Adobe Flash CS4 ProfessionalWith Creative Suite 4, Adobe aims to make Flash easier for newbies to learn and less of a hassle for veteran users to use. Flash 4 offers a fundamentally different approach to animation with object-based tweening. In addition, the workspace is more elegant and options expand...
- Tags: Flash 4, Adobe Systems Inc., animation, Flash CS3
- Product reviews 2008-09-23
- Ant Planet (dmg)
- Somewhere in the South Pacific, in a rare natural event, a shower of blue crystalline meteors landed on several uninhabited islands. The shower lasted days and nights, and from a safe distance on their home islands, entire tribes of primitive peoples watched the sky with fear and awe, hoping that...
- Tags: Ant, Island, Shower, Reliabit
- Software downloads 2008-09-23
- Ghosts and Phantoms screensaver (pd)
- In this spooky free screensaver from American Greetings, a full moon illuminates the bare trees and reveals some ghostly shapes and images through the mist. The trees part, the moon shifts position in the sky, and mysterious lights and spectres appear throughout the forest.Note: The screensavers from American Greetings require...
- Tags: American Greetings Corp., Screensaver
- Software downloads 2008-09-22
- Robot gas stations in the sky
- Robot gas stations in the skyInappropriate language‘taking a running fuck at a rolling doughnut.’, may not be appropriate for posting on ZDNET.
- Tags: Robots, robot
- Discussion threads 2008-09-21
- Verari: A system builder that claims to be green tech to the core
- It seems to have become sort of de rigueur for the server vendors to introduce blades optimized for virtualization and, of course, the last VMware software technology. I wanted to make note this week of one such offering from Verari Systems, not necessarily because it's the only game in town...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Verari Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-21
- Robot gas stations in the sky
- According to Aviation Week, U.S. engineers will soon demonstrate the first in-flight docking of two unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs while continuing the development of an autonomous aerial refueling system. Two specially designed UAVs, a tanker and a receiver, will perform their first test flights next month. 'One of the six-foot...
- Tags: Basket, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Robots, GPS, Aerospace & Defense, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Manufacturing, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-20
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