Bob Muglia's PASS keynote addresses on Tuesday revealed a rack that contained 8 different IBM machines, configured with 192 different CPUs. Ted Kummert demonstrated SQL Server Report Builder 3 and discussed Microsoft's Information Platform Vision. 	
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<b>Tech Broiler:</b> "We talk about Canonical's upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release for Desktop and Server, and the company's near term goals for 2010 and 2011."
Facing an uphill fight against titans IBM, HP and Dell, the Japanese systems vendor believes it has its own secret sauce to take on the data center and gain cloud computing market share.
Facing an uphill fight against titans IBM, HP and Dell, the Japanese systems vendor believes it has its own secret sauce to take on the data center and gain cloud computing market share.
<b>The Register:</b> "San Francisco's rogue sysadmin Terry Childs, who refused to reveal passwords when he was sacked, could learn his fate later today."
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<b>Webreference:</b> "Following up on "Implementing One-way Encryption in PHP," my previous tutorial about using one-way encryption to build a secure online diary application, this article explores using PHP encryption for login authentication."
<b>Desktop Linux:</b> "Shuttle announced a compact, all-in-one PC featuring a 15.6-inch touchscreen and a dual-core Intel Atom D510 available with SUSE Linux. The X50V2 includes a 1366 x 768 display, webcam, 4-in-1 card reader, a 2.5-inch hard drive bay, and up to 4GB of RAM, says the company."
Jim Czuprynski demonstrates how to install and configure a new Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11gR2) Grid Infrastructure home as the basis for the majority of the grid computing features that were only available in a Real Application Clusters (RAC) clustered database environment in previous releases.
IBM announced Thursday that the price of its new version of DB2 would be $7,500 per processor, nearly half the current cost of $14,000 per processor. The new software is expected to be available November 21.
<b>The VAR Guy:</b> "Novell’s board has considered and rejected an unsolicited $2 billion takeover bid from Elliott Associates, a hedge fund that wants to swallow SUSE Linux and Novell’s other core products."