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The PC is dead. Rising numbers of mobile, lightweight, cloud-centric devices don’t merely represent a change in form factor. Rather, we’re seeing an unprecedented shift of power from end users and software developers on the one hand, to operating system vendors on the other—and even those who keep their PCs are being swept along. This is a little for the better, and much for the worse.
via The PC is dead. Why no angry nerds? :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It.
Tags: speculation
A study of how University of Washington graduate students integrated an Amazon Kindle DX into their course reading provides the first long-term investigation of e-readers in higher education. While some of the study’s findings were expected – students want improved support for taking notes, checking references and viewing figures – the authors also found that allowing people to switch between reading styles, and providing the reader with physical cues, are two challenges that e-readers will need to address in cracking the college market.
We ran a within-subjects study, testing each user on all 4 reading conditions — printed book, PC, iPad, and Kindle — rotating the sequence in which we exposed users to each device.
via iPad and Kindle Reading Speeds (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox).
In the movie “Ironman 2,” Larry Ellison makes a cameo appearance as a billionaire, playboy software magnate. It is a role he knows well. He is playing himself — chief executive of Oracle Corp, one of Silicon Valley’s most enduring, successful and flamboyant figures.
via Special Report: Can That Guy in Ironman 2 Whip IBM in Real Life?.
Tags: digression
MySQL :: MySQL Enterprise for Amazon EC2:
Amazon EC2 is a web service that allows organizations to right size their computing capacity on demand using Amazon’s proven computing environment. Using MySQL Enterprise for Amazon EC2, developers can cost-effectively deliver web-scale database applications in the “cloud”, fully backed by the database experts at MySQL. Amazon EC2 and MySQL are a great fit for organizations that want to reduce the capital expenditures and operating costs required to build out and run their IT infrastructure. The benefits of MySQL Enterprise for Amazon for EC2 include:
Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Sun are now fueling the growing fire around the database-as-a-service and cloud database markets, but what’s the difference between these offerings and what’s the appeal? Database guru Don Feinberg defines terms and raises important questions about reliability and security.
LDAP Mythology | Business intelligence, data warehousing and analytics editorial from DMReview:
Myth: LDAP is a directory.Truth: LDAP is an access protocol.
How many times have you heard (or even used) the term “LDAP directory?” It seems that the words “LDAP” and “directory” have been used together so often that they have essentially become synonymous, leading to some unconscious misstatements, which can lead to more important mistakes.
In truth, LDAP is an access protocol , as the AP in its name clearly states – not a directory. In light of this fact, the frequently repeated reference to “storing data in LDAP” seems rather nonsensical. After all, you can’t store data in a protocol, right? No one says, “Let’s store the data in TCP/IP” because they know that TCP/IP is a protocol that specifies the format of data transmissions over a network – not a physical location for holding data. Ditto for LDAP. For some reason, though, the incongruity of such a statement doesn’t seem to register when framed in the context of directory data.
The rest of the “Myth/Truth” exposition is equally rewarding.
It just isn’t easy or simple or inexpensive.
ANNOUNCING THE GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF
ORACLE RDB PRODUCT FAMILY PRODUCTION RELEASE 7.2
FOR OPENVMS ITANIUM(R)-BASED AND ALPHASERVER SYSTEMS
Oracle Corporation is pleased to announce the production release
of version 7.2 of the Oracle Rdb product family. All product
family components are available for download from MetaLink
(http://metalink.oracle.com).
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DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services:
Welcome to the DBMS2 blog
Categories: Housekeeping — Curt Monash @ 2:12 pm
This is the first blog I’ve ever administered, and it was launched in a hurry so that I could follow up on my column introducing the DBMS2 concept. In other words, it’s very much under construction.