The chipmaker looks to the future with $1.27 billion purchase of Numonyx, a maker of NOR and NAND Flash microprocessors found in cell phones, digital cameras and mp3 players.
<b>ServerWatch:</b> "Novell, the parent company of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, seems to have slapped a huge "For Sale!" sign on its front lawn. It's sad, but this famous enterprise OS maker may soon be little more than a mildly interesting footnote to history."
<b>Enterprise Storage Forum:</b> "Instead of predicting which technologies will take over in the future, let's predict what won't be there, or what will gradually start to fade in the storage and data center world."
<b>Distrowatch:</b> "A new release of Fedora is always a highly anticipated event on the Linux distro calendar and this week's arrival of version 13 will be no different. What innovations can we expect to find in "Goddard"?"
<b>The H Open:</b> "Lightweight desktops have a multitude of uses, on netbooks, for mobile devices, for older hardware, for users with limited requirements of their systems, for connecting to applications in the cloud, and for bare knuckled programmers who prefer to work closer to the metal."
Analysts predict a bright future for mobile cloud computing, finding that the number of enterprise customers using cloud-based mobile apps will mushroom.
Paul Zikopoulos continues his series on DB2 9 and Microsoft Access 2007, explaining in this installment how to build forms that run against DB2 data servers.
Recent installments of our SQL Server 2005 Express Edition series have been discussing its implementation of Full Text Indexing. This article focuses on data searches, which leverage existing indexes, taking into account such features as noise words and thesaurus files.
<b>Free Software Magazine:</b> "Given the short notice (only six days!), I was not able to come up with a more detailed response, but I did want to express my dismay at the way these policies are being framed."
The nice folks at ZaReason, the independent Linux OEM computer vendor, sent me their Teo tough netbook to review. Is the Teo really tough? It is usable like a real computer? Or just a toy with a funny name?
OS Roundup: Microsoft appears to have woken up to the fact that free open-source Office clones may be the thin end of a very slippery wedge. Its response is loud and clear, as it tells the world, when it comes to operating systems Microsoft intends to be a formidable competitor for some time to come.
OS Roundup: Microsoft appears to have woken up to the fact that free open-source Office clones may be the thin end of a very slippery wedge. Its response is loud and clear, as it tells the world, when it comes to operating systems Microsoft intends to be a formidable competitor for some time to come.
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "Microsoft has been busy these past few days reminding the world that it really is an organization of monstrous proportions and its tendrils reach from the humblest consumer desktop right up to the level of super-computing."
<b>Ghabuntu:</b> "One good thing about using Linux is the amount of choices one has when it comes to the use of any application. If you are a music lover, the following 5 music/audio editors are worthy of note"
Learn a technique to fetch column data for MySQL crosstabs by emulating views. By replacing tables with a subquery subset, the resulting view will contain a limited dataset that has been filtered for that column field.
Learn a technique to fetch column data for MySQL crosstabs by emulating views. By replacing tables with a subquery subset, the resulting view will contain a limited dataset that has been filtered for that column field.