by Robin Harris | Friday, September 8, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Google’s Bigtable is essentially a massive, distributed 3-D spreadsheet. It doesn’t do SQL, there is limited support for atomic transactions, nor does it support the full relational database model. In short, in these and other areas, the Google team made...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 7, 2006 | Future Tech |
Google rolls out new applications to millions of users with surprising frequency, which is pretty amazing all by itself. Yet when you look at the variety of the applications, ranging from data-sucking behemoths like webcrawling to intimate apps like Personalized...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 6, 2006 | Future Tech |
The stupid fight between Blu-ray and HD-DVD shows no sign of abating, but there may finally be a player with enough clout to decide the issue after the movie studios, Sony, Apple, Microsoft and HP couldn’t break the log jam. The tie-breaker: pornography. And...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 5, 2006 | Enterprise |
EMC has been test driving their Next Big Marketing Initiative for some months. Expect them to start pounding the drums for Intelligent Information Management this month. It appears that IIM, the concept, will be embodied in software products taking pieces from several...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 31, 2006 | Enterprise, SOHO/SMB, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Over at InfoWorld, Tom Yager has posted a fascinating article titled Linux will get buried. It’s Not About Apple He proposes that Apple’s Unix revenue will overtake commercial Linux factory-install revenue by mid-2008. Which seems reasonable: Apple sales...
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