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- WasabiRAID
- WasabiRAID from Wasabi Systems is a kernel level RAID driver optimized for Wasabi Certified BSD. It is compatible with any type of hard drive - including SATA, SATA II, SAS, SCSI, and Fibre Channel. WasabiRAID is powerful, secure, and flexible, making it ideal for DAS, NAS, and SAN storage solutions...
- Tags: Wasabi Systems, WasabiRAID, WasabiRAID Developer, Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Serial ATA, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Smb/Sme, RAID, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-07
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- Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo
- Adobe Systems, Inc. announced yesterday in a statement that it will eliminate 600 full-time positions, or roughly 8 percent of its workforce, amid weaker than expected fourth quarter earnings. Fellow ZD blogger Larry Dignan notes that demand for Creative Suite 4 was weaker than expected and the...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macworld, Workforce Management, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Schwartz: Three reasons you need JavaFX
- In the run-up to today's launch of JavaFX, ZDNet sat down with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz to get his thoughts on JavaFX, Flash, and the future of Java. [ Read: Sun launches JavaFX 1.0, and JavaFX Q&A ] [Ed] Q. Why did Sun create...
- Tags: Developer, Java Platform, Sun Microsystems Inc., JCP, Audience, JavaFX, Ed, Jonathan, Microsoft Obviously, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- JavaFX Q&A
- To learn more about the technical aspects of today's launch of JavaFX including its support in NetBeans and Eclipse I spoke in depth with Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and Octavian Tanase, Senior Director of the Java Platform Group. For a more business oriented perspective see the...
- Tags: Developer, Application, Mobile, Ed, Eric, FX, JavaFX Script, Q., FX Common, Flex, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud
- Amazon Web Services AWS on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census...
- Tags: Genome, Amazon.com Inc., Data Set, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?
- I must admit I'm more than a bit skeptical when any company, Microsoft in particular, goes out of its way to make rivals' software work better with its own, especially if it's a cash cow product. But here we are, nine months after Microsoft announced its document...
- Tags: Interoperability, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, SDK, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenXML Document Viewer, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Java SE 6 update 11 is out, 64-bit support still lacking
- Two months after Java 6 update 10 was released, Sun has just released update 11. For many users the new version will automatically be detected and installed, but you can always get it from the Sun Java site. Developers should download the JDK package Java Development Kit...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., 64-Bit, Programming Languages, Java, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study
- IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, studyBSThere is no shortage of core IT skills, there is a shortage of people willing to pay for them.Auditing, project mgt, are overwhelmingly financed, while IT skills, or any operational skill for that matter, are considered to be of little value and...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Workstations, information technology, core skill, dire shortage, IT Skills
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Facebook Connect: The masses and the fishbowl
- Facebook Connect, a service that allows someone to log on to Facebook from third party sites, is set to expand from its May launch. Reading the conversation this morning on Techmeme familiar storyline emerges. Facebook's Connect vs. the Open Social alliance between Google, MySpace and a bunch...
- Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Why C wins: the cold realities of abstraction
- Why C wins: the cold realities of abstractionPoints of inflectionMy guess is that if we had a valid means of quantifying "abstractiveness" versus effectiveness we'd find a curve with clear points of inflection - and C on one of those.POSIX itself surprised it was not named SOSIX is an abstraction....
- Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, Machine Language, C, abstraction
- Discussion threads 2008-11-29
- How open should your open source business strategy be
- How open should your open source business strategy beCreate your own network effect ...... and you can grow and shrink as necessary.There's a huge market out there of people who just want their computer to f***ing work.If you're prepared to stick a second hard drive in peoples machines and dual...
- Tags: open-source business strategy, open source, strategy
- Discussion threads 2008-11-28
- No surprise: Firefox 3.1 beta 3 planned for early January
- No surprise: Firefox 3.1 beta 3 planned for early JanuaryNo surprise: Firefox ALWAYS has 3 betas ...... before 2 RCs.Nothing to be concerned about. In the open source beta means REALLY STABLE and could probably match the quality of the majority of the close source applications in production state (ie:...
- Tags: Web browsers, beta, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 3.1, Firefox 3.1 beta, planned
- Discussion threads 2008-11-25
- No surprise: Firefox 3.1 beta 3 planned for early January
- It's no big surprise that the Mozilla team decided for sure to release a third beta of Firefox 3.1 before moving to release candidate mode. That was all but voted on at last week's meeting I thought but Mozilla "corporate" PR folks informed me that no decision...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Mozilla Corp., Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Apple retail stores to match prices
- Apple retail stores to match pricesNot the first time Apple has screwed their authorized resellersApple faced a huge lawsuit years ago when the first Apple stores started popping up. Turns out that when an Apple store went up, authorized resellers in the area would be told that certain items were...
- Tags: Retail, VOIP, Apple Inc., Starlight, Apple Store, retail company
- Discussion threads 2008-11-25
- I want an iPhoneStormDroid
- I want an iPhoneStormDroidUmm, Xen's been doing this for over a year...The Xen hypervisor has been shown on a future Samsung PDA prototype doing exactly this for a long time - about a year and a half. Great to see Wind River finally catch on, but notice how the...
- Tags: Keyboards, Operating systems, Xen Hypervisor, operating system, Apple iPhone, crashe, iPhoneStormDroid, keyboard, HTC Touch Pro, Wind River Systems Inc., phone, HTC Touch, High Tech Computer Corp., Xen
- Discussion threads 2008-11-25
- App Store developers stuffing the ballot box (again)
- App Store developers stuffing the ballot box againJerks like that should be banned altogether... and really the community of programmers should step up and denounce him.Apple should make any manipulation of application ratings or rankings a license violation, punishable by a 6 month ban of all that developer's apps from...
- Tags: American Automobile Association, developer, App Store, App Store developer, ballot box, AAA
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- StarLight for Mac enters alpha; iPhone client in development
- StarLight for Mac enters alpha; iPhone client in developmentdeleteddeletedRE: StarLight for Mac enters alpha; iPhone client in developmentFrom the Developer:Thank you for the super write up on StarLight. We are working hard on StarLight 1.1.0a which will include native quicktime audio as an option an alternative to the built-in mplayer...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, Starlight, iPhone client, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- App Store developers stuffing the ballot box (again)
- App Store developers are known for finding creative ways to game Apple's App Store for financial gain. In July 2008 crafty developers discovered that changing the titles of their apps to include all spaces and/or special characters would make them appear at the top of the category...
- Tags: Developer, Review, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- The case for Scala
- Programming languages are like screwdrivers for developers. One size does not fit all, so good programmers keep several in their tool belt. The problem is, new languages are coming out all the time and you've only got so much room on your belt and in your schedule to learn them....
- Tags: Function, Method, Functional Programming, Language, Scala, Seq, List, Scala System, HQ9+, env:Env, David J. Biesack, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Sex, Rock and Roll, and Open Source Reporting Frameworks
- Sex, Rock and Roll, and Open Source Reporting FrameworksI agree with your assessmentI used to support HP OpenView sales (OK, it's debatable if OpenView can be used for BI but it was an excellent IT management environment that could be adapted for manufacturing or some forms of business reporting), and...
- Tags: IT Management, Utility computing, HP OpenView, Open Source Reporting, open source, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
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