Monday, February 26th, 2007
A well thought primer on the many ways to handle bugs and patches In open source products. This is something that all developers of open source products should read and consider as it could be the difference between failure and success in a very competitive marketplace. Read on, learn and profess!
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Great story found in the USAToday about a guy named Melin who had a laptop with some
personal information stolen. He then monitored the SETI(at)home database that was installed on the stolen laptp to see if the laptop would “talk” to the Berkeley servers. Well you guessed it, the laptop checked in several times within a [...]
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
A new startup leads by industry bigwigs called Vertica has developed a new grid-enabled, column-oriented relational
database management system (RDBMS) that runs on industry-standard,
Linux-based hardware. According to their site “The Vertica Database® provides extremely fast ad
hoc SQL query performance, even for very large databases, making it
well suited for:
Data warehousing
Data marts
Clickstream analysis
Fraud detection
Call detail analysis
Consumer customer analytics
Business [...]
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
The Open Linux Router Project is a very interesting offering that emphasizes a simple interface that allows users to configure the router and add new features without excessive technical knowledge about the device. Even though this project is early stage, it is part of a growing interest in using open source offerings to
compete with much [...]
