Monthly Archives: October 2005
Open-Source Databases Spreading Like Rabbits
Open-source database adoption has shot up 20 percent in the last six months, according to new research.
Evans Data Corp.s Fall 2005 Database Development Survey,...
Availl Expands CDP Backup Feature Set
Continuous Data Protection vendor Availl Inc. has come up with yet another way to separate itself from the pack of CDP contenders with a...
Overland Launches Primary Storage Line
Overland Storage Inc., a company best known for its tape automation appliances and disk-based backup appliances for secondary storage, has introduced a new primary...
Microsoft Scuttles Plans for Standalone Microsoft Business Framework
Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) is no more.
The new strategy is to make the various technologies that were to comprise MBS available as part of...
The Ultimate Privacy Argument Against RFID
Privacy arguments tend to be emotional, often expressed in terms of "security versus privacy."
A new book out about the future of RFID goes far...
Doctors Need Help Dealing with Personalized Medicine
Making good health care decisions has always been hard. As informatics teases out patients varied health needs, its poised to get even more complex....
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Has Edge over Its StarOffice 8 Cousin
When eWEEK Labs recently reviewed StarOffice 8, we were impressed by its broad platform support and low cost—two measures by which the Sun Microsystems...
Open-Source App Firms Draw VC Funding
Open-source application software companies have grown to the point where they are starting to catch the attention of venture capital firms looking for new...
If Blu-ray Is the Last Format, Think How Far Weve Come
This weeks most interesting quote comes from Bill Gates, who told a college newspaper that Blu-ray, Sonys HD DVD format, "is the last physical...
Microsoft Research Inspires Worldwide Digital Inclusion
In a bid to combat the widespread global technology gap, Microsoft Research, a division of Microsoft Corp., announced Friday two initiatives designed to encourage...