Sun has lost the stickiness test. MySQL boss Marten Mickos, the operation’s former CEO and senior VP of Sun’s database group since its acquisition almost exactly one year ago, is following co-founder and MySQL’s original developer Monty Widinius out the door. Sun lost the open source database’s other co-founder David Axmark a few months ago.
I wanted to flag a recent article from Rachael King, that appeared on BusinessWeek.com discussing a study by Gartner that shows office land lines decreasing as corporate users rely more on their mobile devices. This is interesting and following on from my previous post where I state that 'Mobility is an exciting place', and the posting on Apple's Enterprise iPhone usage etc including an impressive customer video.
JavaBlackBelt, a leader in Java learning and now powered by over 50,000 developers in its European community, today announced the opening of its web 2.0-based Java skills management services to enterprises in the US and India. Specifically, it has reached agreement with Boston-based Global Force DIRECT™ for distribution rights across these regions.
Chris Hazelton from the 451 Group: "The iPhone has so effectively whetted the appetite of corporate mobility users wanting more feature-rich products that executives are smuggling the device into the enterprise without authorization. No single vendor - as cool as Apple may be - can possibly develop sufficient applications to sate this appetite, so third-party software developers have an immense opportunity to add value. The question is, will Apple decide this is the road it wants to travel? Will it cede the control it so famously exerts over every stage of its products development? Or will it choose for the sake of increased financial opportunity to compete in the enterprise?"
Ray Roxas-Chua leads the Philippines government's information and communications technology (ICT) initiatives. In the wake of the Satyam scanda in Inida, it seems the potential to outsource to the Philippines instead has grown. I interviewed him in late 2008. The interview occurred before the Satyam scandal in India, which in my view threatens to disrupt all outsourcing growth in India, perhaps to the benefit of other countries, including the Philippines.
Following on from my previous article where I state that 'Mobility is an exciting place', check out the new Apple posting on their Enterprise iPhone usage etc. Seems that Kraft Foods have adopted a wireless office policy insode the company, using iPhone for all their Enterprise needs and have developed iPhone applications for their consumers. That takes the biscuit.... a Kraft one I hope ;-)
What makes iPhone a great business phone? Simple. The same features that make it a revolutionary mobile device. With iPhone 2.0 software, iPhone does even more for your enterprise. It supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, delivering push email, calendar, and contacts. And it gives mobile users secure access to corporate resources with Cisco IPSec VPN and wireless network services with WPA2 Enterprise and 802.1X authentication.
Astaro has announced that users of Apple’s iPhone can now automatically setup a secure, IPsec VPN (virtual private network) tunnel with no technical knowledge required. This new process adds yet another method that iPhone users can use to connect to Astaro Gateway products. Astaro allows iPhone users to choose from any of the three VPN technologies currently available on the iPhone to connect to their home and business networks. In addition to the iPhone’s PPTP and L2TP VPN connectivity options, Astaro users can now use the iPhones IPsec VPN capabilities—widely accepted as the best security choice for VPN tunneling.
Ideum has announced the release of a ruggedized multi-touch, multi-user table built specifically for museums. The MT Table supports multi-touch and multi-user interactions. It has a 50" (diagonal) surface with a high resolution 1280 x 720 display. The large display also makes it easier to facilitate multiple simultaneous visitors interacting with cogestures to manipulate images or media or to interact with computer-based programs. The table, which stands 31" tall with heavy-duty locking casters, is wheel-chair accessible and meets standard ADA requirements for height. The table is automated and can safely shut itself down.
Sun Microsystems has announced the expansion of its disk storage portfolio with two new high-performance disk storage arrays that enable customers to consolidate workloads within the same data center footprint for greater efficiency. The new Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 modular arrays complement a range of server architectures, including Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 systems running the Solaris Operating System. The Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 Arrays help enterprise customers upgrade their storage infrastructure to scale storage needs within the same power and space envelope. The new Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 arrays are ideal for midrange and high-end enterprise and throughput-intensive workloads that target database and enterprise-email applications and add enterprise management tools at no cost through the Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager software. Customers have already started to leverage Sun’s upgrade and trade-in programs, which uncover hidden equity in a customer’s current IT infrastructure by giving trade-up allowances for both Sun and competitor products. New Storage Arrays Bring Value, Investment Protection to the Market: Sun Storage 6580 Array: Offers improved response time remains versus previous generations; includes these product specifications: up to 256 disks (256 TB), eight 4Gb FC host ports, 8GB Cache, 16 expansion trays per controller, an intermix of SATA and FC drives and support of RAID 6. Sun Storage 6780 Array: Positioned above the Sun Storage 6500 line, the Sun Storage 6780 offers two times the IOPS and four times the throughput performance over the 6500 class of arrays. Product specifications include up to 448 disks (448 TB), eight or 16 4Gb FC host ports, 16GB cache, 28 expansion trays per controller, an intermix of SATA and FC drives and support of RAID 6.
KonaKart v 3.2.0.0 is a new release of the java eCommerce shopping cart software which now includes multi-store, fast indexed searching, Liferay and Google Base integration and much more.
McObject® has released Perst™ 4.0, the latest upgrade of its open source, object-oriented embedded database for Java and .NET. Version 4.0 greatly expands Perst’s usefulness in a broad range of applications by enabling it to add persistence to any object—including objects created by other programs, those for which source code is unavailable, and even objects created in different programming languages.
A documentary film about a mountain ethnic group in South East Asia. "The Prisoners of a White God" tells the story about a researcher, who investigates the activities of christian missionaries and international development among the Akha peoples.
The "Electricity Garden" in Tel-Aviv is known as a haven for drug dealings and prostitution. This documentary follows to young Arab friends, Nino and Dudu, as they cope with life in "The Garden".
This documentary reveals how a foreign spy ring with links to Al-Qaeda has been discovered working within the FBI. Sibel Edmonds began work at the FBI translating wire taps in an investigation into a foreign spy ring operating in the US. She became suspicious of her colleagues after discovering some mistranslations and was then invited to join the spy ring which had evidently infiltrated the FBI itself. She went straight to her bosses and rather than being hailed as a hero she was promptly sacked. After going public on 60 Minutes she has been officially gagged.
A documentary depicting the final hours in the life of the Princess of Wales that raised outrage when it was shown in Britain will air on CBC, but without the photographs that caused the greatest controversy. Princes Harry and William, Diana's sons, begged the U.K.'s Channel 4 not to air the documentary, Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel which features photos taken by paparazzi during the last minutes of her life. However, Channel 4 aired the documentary earlier this year despite objections by the Royal family. Particularly controversial was a photo by a French photographer showing Diana being given oxygen by paramedics and another that showed all the occupants of the car immediately after the crash that killed both the Princess of Wales and her companion, Dodi Al Fayed. The CBC issued a news release saying the photos in question will not be featured in the Canadian broadcast due to lawsuits by the photographers over the use of their work. The copy of The Witnesses in the Tunnel CBC received has already had the photos edited out, a CBC spokesman said. The premise of the documentary produced and directed by Janice Sutherland and Stuart Tanner is that it is the story of the photographers who were taking pictures of Diana on the night of her death. It examines what role they might have played in contributing to her death and what happened to photographers arrested at the scene of the crash, which is approaching its 10th anniversary. Both Royal watchers and government representatives were critical of the U.K.'s Channel 4 for showing photographs that they felt were distressing and in poor taste. CBC plans to air the documentary on Monday, Sept. 3, at 10 p.m. on the Passionate Eye. It is one of three documentaries about the princess to be shown on CBC to mark the decade that has passed since Diana's death on Aug. 31, 1997. CBC also will air Who Killed Diana on Sept. 1, and Princess Diana: Her Life in Jewels on Sept. 2.
In the mid 70s, an aspiring theoretical physicist made what he and many others feel is the most important discovery in the world. This very significant film is about the resulting invention, one that can author all subsequent ideas, provide a totally unanticipated cosmology, and possibly deliver us from death.
A behind the scences of one of the most memorable movies of the 21st century. This documentary complete with commentary from Vivian Kubrick, the daughter of Stanley Kubrick, from the film she shot on the set of the movie.
The tragic, defining moment in the American space program was watched by millions. This film produced 15 years after that tragic day takes the viewer into the minute detail of the launch decision for the first time: the politics, the science and the human drama.
Buddhism asks the fundamental question: What is life and what is the point of existence? Wade Davis goes on an anthropological and spiritual journey into the Himalayas of Nepal to learn the deepest lesson of Buddhist practice.
. More than 40 years after his death, the body of former CIA scientist Dr. Frank Olson has been exhumed. Olsons son Eric is convinced his father was murdered by agents of the American government because he wanted to leave the CIA. Dr. Frank Olson was an expert for anthrax and other biological weapons and had top security clearance. Forensic pathologists at George Washington University performed an autopsy and concluded that Olson probably was the victim of a violent crime.
Nikola Tesla was a world-renowned Serb-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Tesla is regarded as one of the most important inventors in history. Tesla was regarded as a mad scientist and became noted for making bizarre contraptions. Tesla left behind many secrets about his inventions that are still trying to be decoded today.
This documentary explores New Mexico's vast volcanic history through craters, cinder cones, lava flows and mountains that have blown their tops - to reveal stories of New Mexico's cataclysmic beginning. Orginally broadcast on New Mexico PBS station KNME. Produced in collaboration with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and originally broadcast on New Mexico PBS station KNME-TV, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A documentary film about the history of the ARPANET and birth of the Internet.
A documentary about the lives of children within the Gaza Strip. As recent conflicts continue to escalated, it is important to realize how many innocent people are stuck within this conflict zone.