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The death spiral of the WIMPs of our Time

The death spiral of the WIMPs of our Time

By John Taschek on October 14, 2010

Back in 1989 give or take a year or so, there were two competing DOS-based graphical operating systems and neither one of them was Windows. They were WIMPs, which was the common name for what was eventually called a GUI and is now not called anything by anyone except an…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, Facebook, salesforce.com, Web/Tech, Weblogs, WIMP, windows

Goodbye Windows, hello IE9 and the cloud

Goodbye Windows, hello IE9 and the cloud

By Phil Wainewright on September 16, 2010

Microsoft’s next browser, released in beta today, treats websites as applications. By moving the focus of activity up off the desktop into the browser, IE9 concedes the supremacy of cloud computing.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, Internet Explorer 9, microsoft, windows

EMC Buys Greenplum – Big Data Realignment Continues

EMC Buys Greenplum – Big Data Realignment Continues

By Merv Adrian on July 6, 2010

EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, announced today as a cash transaction, reaffirms the obvious: the Big Data tsunami upends conventional wisdom. It has already reshaped the market, spawning the most ferment in the RDBMS (and non-R DBMS via the noSQL players) space in years. When I first posted on Greenplum over a year ago, I said […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, AIX, Aster, blades, business intelligence, Cloud, core, CPU, data integration, data load, Data Warehousing, Database, database performance, DB2, DBMS, Documentum, EMC, ETL, Exadata, Exasol, Greenplum, Hardware platforms, hp, ibm, indexing, Industry Trends, Java, Kickfire, Linux, mdm, microsoft, MPP, multicore, Netezza, NoSQL, NUMA, Open source, oracle, PADB, ParAccel, Postgres, PostgreSQL, rack, RDBMS, sap, Solaris, Sun, Sybase, Teradata, TPC, TPC-H, unisys, Vendor image and communications, Virtual Machine, VM, VMware, vSphere, windows | 2 Responses

A Simple Hint Why SaaS Is Better

A Simple Hint Why SaaS Is Better

By Phil Wainewright on March 8, 2010

When I pressed send this morning on an email message, Gmail popped up a dialog box asking whether I’d meant to attach a file. “You wrote ‘find attached’ in your message,” it gently mentioned, “but there were no files attached.” Of course, as so often happens, I’d finished the message and pressed send without remembering […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged E-mail attachment, email, gmail, SaaS, windows, Windows update | 1 Response

The badge of pride now should be how long it has been since you left your computer on overnight!

The badge of pride now should be how long it has been since you left your computer on overnight!

By Tom Raftery on February 5, 2010

I’m an IT guy. I love my (Mac) computer. Most other IT people I know love their computers too, be they Mac, Windows or *nix based. Of course you would when you are typically working on them 8+ hours per day. We take pride in our computers – how fast they are, the latest software/widget […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged computer, Energy, energy efficiency, hibernate, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, power strip, shut down, sleep, windows

Malware Attack on Skype

Malware Attack on Skype

By Zoli Erdos on January 18, 2010

I’m used to Skype Spam, but not a malvare-attack.  Here’s what just popped up on my Skype screen: Registry Online: URGENT SYSTEM SCAN NOTIFICATION ! PLEASE READ CAREFULLY !! http://www.updategt.org/ For the link to become active, please click on ‘Add to contacts’ skype button or type it in manually into your web browser ! FULL […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged malware, security, skype, skype attack, skype security, windows

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