The latest Sun customers to need reassuring from Oracle are the StorageTek data tape customers, who are told of Oracle's long-term commitment to the technology.
<b>Distrowatch:</b> "When talking about kernel scheduling and desktop responsiveness, it's common to hear people in the tech community talk fondly of BeOS, a desktop system which hails from the 1990s. BeOS had a well-deserved reputation for providing users with a polished desktop and smooth interaction, even when the processor was under heavy load."
Latest study from security software vendor Panda Security finds that most small and midsized businesses are worried about cybercrime, but haven't much of a clue how to prevent it.
<b>Tech Drive-in:</b> "Amarok was my favorite among Linux media players, until Amarok 2.0 series started coming in. I totally understand that Amarok 2.0 series is a complete rewrite and I really appreciate the effort they have put on upgrading Amarok."
Backups aren't what they used to be. The amount of data to contend with has mushroomed and the technologies available to meet storage needs are increasingly complex. Here's one engineering firm's travails and how it resolved them.
<b>IT World:</b> "Look around you. If you're in an office or coffee shop where people are using Windows, chances are someone's PC is now, or recently has been, part of a botnet."
<b>Standards Blog:</b> "Crouching like a pack of hyenas on the floor between the subcommittee and witness tables were dozens of photographers, polishing their lenses in anticipation of the kill"
Devrex Gear has already taken on instant-messaging archiving. Now it's looking to the broader social media landscape, offering enterprises a new path to regulatory compliance.
Apple's iPads are flying out the door even faster than the iPhone's initial debut. If you're planning to justify the expense, here are the five best apps to help you put that toy, um, mobile device to work.
<b>Packt:</b> "We will begin by creating the terrain for the underwater environment. In the sequel of the article, we will learn how to add vegetation, pebbles and corals. After which we will discuss how to add distant terrains, lighting effects and finally composition."
<b>Phoronix:</b> "One of the benefits of Btrfs besides offering competitive performance against other Linux file-systems and SSD optimizations is its support for sub-volumes and writable snapshots."
If you've ever had to stop and check the manpage to get the crontab syntax correct for your Unix or Linux server, here's a Web site that will save you lots of time.
OS Roundup: Despite the noisier iPhone or Blackberry debate, the OS still matters. When it comes to mobile, Windows is losing ground to Linux and other OSes. Will the release of Windows Phone later this year enable Microsoft to prevail?
OS Roundup: Despite the noisier iPhone or Blackberry debate, the OS still matters. When it comes to mobile, Windows is losing ground to Linux and other OSes. Will the release of Windows Phone later this year enable Microsoft to prevail?
Software giant's latest Security Intelligence Report found that the number of infected PCs rose by 1.7 million in the second half of 2009, but improved monitoring is helping flag and clean the corrupted systems.
<b>Systhread:</b> "In this the third and final part of the series compulsory checks are added, the main loop is constructed and the finall full source listing produced."
<b>IBM Developerworks:</b> "If you're a typical PHP developer, it doesn't take a thorough review of past projects to pick out a telling pattern: In most (if not all) cases, you're probably getting PHP to talk to a database back end for all that dynamic data goodness; in 99 percent of those instances, you're using MySQL."