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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 August Release
Microsoft has unofficially announced that SQL Server 2008 will be released in August, 2008 with no price increase over SQL Server 2005.
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Databases Roundup: Data Sharding for ActiveRecord and Faster Postgres IO
In this databases roundup we take a look at DataFabric, FiveRun's recently open sourced data sharding plug-in for ActiveRecord. Also: a look at speeding up Postgres data access using the asynchronous client API and Ruby 1.9's Fibers.
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Internet Explorer 6 on its way out (or not)?
Since attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has been rapidly losing market share. As the end of 2008 approaches, significant online services, vendors and web frameworks are dropping support for IE6. Will this year be the end of IE6 and what does this signify for Web 2.0 developers?
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Eucalyptus Project Delivers Open Source Cloud Computing with EC2 Interface Compatibility
Eucalyptus is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing cloud computing. Among its features is interface compatibility with EC2 (both Web service and Query interfaces).
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Interview: Christophe Coenraets Discusses Flex 3, AIR, and BlazeDS
In this interview from QCon London 2008, Christophe Coenraets discusses Flex 3, Flex Builder, AIR, BlazeDS, the move towards open source at Adobe, how to integrate Flex with existing applications, and the challenges of integrating Rich Internet Applications with search engines and built-in browser functionality.
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Eclipse Riena: Business-Oriented Client/Server Applications
The third milestone of Eclipse Riena 1.0.0 has been released, offering a first draft of new user-interface concepts and a new look-and-feel to make Eclipse-based applications more business-process oriented.
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Opinions: What is The Optimal Business Model for Today's Web?
What is the optimal business model for today’s web? Opinions diverge in a series of articles around this issue. While authors seem to share the conviction that simplicity is the key in web environment, they do not necessarily put the same meaning into this term. Is less really more? Or should it rather be more with less? And how do we achieve it?
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Spring Dynamic Modules Continuing To Improve
OSGi is all the rage with numerous implementations and usages and the Spring Framework has also been in the mix. Earlier this year they released Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi(tm) Service Platforms version 1.0. Improving the development of Spring applications running an OSGi framework. Recently they release version 1.1.0.
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Progress Software Acquires IONA and Mindreef
Progress software acquires two companies: IONA Technologies and Mindreef, in an effort to augment their SOA Portfolio. The portfolio consists of products in the following categories: enterprise service bus (Sonic ESB), enterprise messaging (Sonic MQ), data interoperability (DataXtend), Mainframe integration (Shadow), Complex Event Processing (Apama) and SOA management (Actional).
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VMware Moves into Application Virtualization with ThinApp 4.0
VMware has released ThinApp 4.0 (formerly Application Virtualization Suite). The product provides application virtualization. This is the first release of the product since VMware acquired Thinstall in January.
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Using Mono and Gtk# to Survive the Gtk+ Treadmill
The proposed changes for Gtk+ 3.0 have stirred up quite a bit of controversy. A lot of people are sounding off against the plethora of breaking changes that are being made for "code quality" issues and don't directly lead to new features. Those hit hardest are also Gtk+'s most important audience, the application developers that rely on the framework.
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BizTalk Services Have Been Updated
BizTalk Labs has updated its range of connectivity and business process services through the BizTalk Services SDK which offers access to the following services: Workflow, Identity, Windows Live ID Credentials, Unauthenticated Access, TransportClientCredentials, HTTP Connectivity Mode.
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KVM Gains Additional Support in Linux 2.6.26 Kernel and Native Network IO Performance
The new 2.6.26 version of the Linux kernel has been released after three months of development with enhanced KVM support. In related news the KVM development team has announced achieving native network IO performance using pci passthrough with VT-d technology.
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Erlang and Ruby Roundup: Vertebra, Scaling with Fuzed, Github
Recently a few popular Ruby projects have started using Erlang. We look at how EngineYard's Vertebra, Powerset's Fuzed and recently Github make use of Erlang.
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Presentation: Steve Vinoski on REST
In a presentation recorded at QCon San Francisco, CORBA guru Steve Vinoski introduces REST from the perspective of a traditional SOA person. He explains the goals of the various constraints REST imposes, and the desirable properties one can gain from adhering to them. In a hypothetical discussion with a "SOA guy", Steve addresses various frequent doubts people express when they first look at REST.