US Army unit deployed to home front Yeah, let's hope there's more to the story or expect to get sprayed with a Crowd Control Glueweb in the near future when you start asking why we spend a trillion or so on Wall Street and nothing to fix health care. Anyone got de-gluing solvents handy?
Oracle and Cloud Computing. Funny. "Oracle seemed to have missed one of the main points of cloud computing — that it's an on-demand approach and that includes software licensing costs. In case you didn't notice, Oracle is not offering pay-per-use pricing for the cloud. All they are saying is that you can use the regular perpetual, upfront, fully-paid software license on EC2. Big Whoop."
Can A Better Database Boost MySpace Revenues? « Data Center Knowledge "Can better data analysis help boost ad revenue for social media sites like MySpace and Photobucket? Fox Interactive Media thinks so, and is using industrial-strength database technology from Sun Microsystems (JAVA) and Greenplum to better target ads on user-generated content on its sites…. Fox believes improved data analysis can help it find the right combination of content, ads and advertisers." Data-warehousing & business intelligence applied, bub.
Open at Adobe: There's something happening here. "Today, Adobe is publishing the next of the specs, the Mobile Content Delivery Protocol (Formerly Flash® Cast™ protocol). This communication protocol describes a mechanism for data to be synchronized between mobile phones and a network-based server in an efficient, mobile network–friendly manner."
Adventures in Open Source » Blog Archive » Radio Free Europe When you say 'open source' outside of the US, it means 100% free software. If you look at the column labeled “European View” it pretty much echos what I’ve been saying for years. The 'commercial' open source business model as seen in the United States View is not open source."