30 January 2007 - Today W3C and OASIS have published WebCGM 2.0, a new industry standard for technical illustrations in electronic documents. WebCGM, which is widely deployed in the defense, aviation, architecture, and transportation industries, has reached new levels of interoperability thanks to this joint effort between OASIS and W3C. "Today, industrial designers reap the benefits of the cooperative work between W3C and OASIS," announced Dr. Steve Bratt, CEO of W3C. "When the developer and designer communities asked for new features and improvements in this critical technology, our organizations combined efforts and expertise, and provided WebCGM 2.0." "WebCGM demonstrates the benefits that can be realized when standards organizations work together for the good of the marketplace," said Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. "The result of this collaboration between OASIS and W3C is a single open standard for CGM on the Web that has been approved by the membership of both our organizations. This degree of endorsement assures implementers around the world that they can adopt WebCGM with confidence." WebCGM Provides Industrial-Grade Web Graphics Computer Graphics Metafile, or CGM, is an ISO standard for a tree-structured, binary graphics format that has been adopted especially by the technical industries (defense, aviation, transportation, etc) for technical illustration in electronic documents. As the Web emerged as the environment for sharing and creating documents, it became apparent that the best way to use CGM on the Web needed to be clarified, particularly for interactivity such as hyperlinks and hotspots. WebCGM finds significant application especially in technical illustration, electronic documentation, and geophysical data visualization. It unifies potentially diverse approaches to CGM utilization in Web document applications, and therefore represents a significant interoperability agreement amongst major users and implementers of the ISO CGM standar
CUPERTINO, Calif. -- January 30, 2007 -- MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today unveiled a simpler way for large and growing organizations to acquire and adopt enterprise software. Designed with a customer's perspective in mind, a one-year MySQL Enterprise Unlimited subscription offers a company-wide enterprise site agreement at the unprecedented low price of $40,000 (EUR 32,000, GBP 24,000). "MySQL Enterprise has made it significantly easier to purchase database software and technical support for our entire organization," said Glenn Bergeron, systems manager for Instaclick Inc., one of the first companies to take advantage of MySQL Enterprise Unlimited. "This new offering is ideal for corporate IT organizations with a growing number of projects but a tightly-fixed budget." MySQL Enterprise Unlimited is designed for companies with existing site licenses for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase and IBM DB2. Last year, a survey of the Independent Oracle User Group showed that a full third of its membership also used MySQL1. With a MySQL Enterprise Unlimited subscription, an organization can develop, manage and fully support any number of MySQL database applications -- significantly reducing IT time, cost and risk. "Due in large part to advantages in distribution and volume, open source has the ability to disrupt traditional enterprise software pricing," said Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst for RedMonk. "MySQL is attempting to prove as much with its latest site wide agreements, which offer customers the ability to support every database across their enterprise at a fraction of the traditional cost." In the past year, MySQL AB has experienced record growth in its enterprise subscription business. In the fourth quarter, the company launched its new MySQL Enterprise offering, a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services. [See today's related press release, "MySQL AB Com
Westminster, CO., January 30, 2007 - Interact-TV™ (OTC: ITVI), a leading developer of Linux-based media servers, today unveils MyTellyHD™ a quiet, compact Linux Media Center that includes high-definition 720p Component video output, Gigabit Ethernet and upscaling of all video and DVDs to full HD resolution.Starting from $899, MyTellyHD delivers all the features and functionality consumers have come to expect from a media server including a subscription-free PVR, Video Library with save DVD capabilities as well as Music and Photo Libraries. MyTellyHD incorporates many new features that are critical to the expanding home theater market including 720p Component video output, Gigabit Ethernet, a high performance processor, and all new MPEG2 video encoding."The MyTellyHD Media Server with 720p Component video output is a great way for consumers to rediscover their DVD collection, " said Ken Fuhrman, CTO of Interact-TV. "Now consumers can truly take advantage of their new HD monitors with a system designed to handle HD. And upscaling recorded TV and regular DVDs to from 480i to 720p lets consumers that don't have access to HD programming get a complete HD experience at an unbeatable price point."
Wall Street Journal published interesting article on thin client computing. You can access the article here: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117011971274291861-oJ6FWrnA8NMPfMXw3vBILth1EiE_20080129.html?mod=blogs The article also lists a number of benefits that thin clients offer. You ll find this to be an interesting article.
Tom's Hardware published an interesting report comparing Windows Vista and Windows XP in various areas. You can find the report here: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/ Personally I am not surprised that Vista performed slower in many applications compared to XP. After all, Vista is quite revolutionary and i guess that it has a lot of extra code to stay compatible with previous applications. I think that Vista performance will improve after software developers start optimizing software for Vista.