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    Links for the Week

    http://www.fulltablescan.com/index.php?/archives/102-Links-f...
    7 days ago in Full Table Scan · Authority: 3

    Ok, I admit it, a couple of these are left over from last week... • KickFire 300GB TPC-H results • Recording of the Vertica/LogiXML webinar "A New Era in Business Intelligence" that was presented last Wednesday. Worth watching if you missed it. • 1010data - "A revolutionary, high–performance, user–friendly, web–based service for analyzing and managing data" • ANTs Software - ANTs develops "full-featured, standards-compliant relational database management system (RDBMS) that supports the SQL92 database programming language as well as the most popular features from SQL 99". Their data sheet is chock full of interesting assertions, particularly about how fast and cheap the system is. I will have to learn more... • Slides from Monty Widenius’s “Future Design Hurdles to Tackle in the MySQL Server” presentation at the recent MySQL Conference and Expo. (Courtesy of this blog post, which is also worth reading.) • pgpool-II - "middleware that works between PostgreSQL servers and a PostgreSQL database client" to provide connection pooling, replication and parallel query functionality, among others. • KickFire: MySQL Data Box for the Rest of Us by Jason Perlow • A Flash overview of the KickFire appliance - A good high level overview, but the narrator is a bit overzealous.

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    Links 30/04/2008: Half a Million Windows Web Servers Compromised; High Morale for Linux

    http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/30/high-morale-for-linux/
    16 days ago in Boycott Novell · Authority: 214

    Links 30/04/2008: Half a Million Windows Web Servers Compromised; High Morale for Linux Posted in News Roundup at 10:06 am by Roy Schestowitz If they mated: Intel and Cray to conceive x86 Linux monster Multi-core CPUs drive change Can we rescue OLPC from Windows? Feds tout malware as Australia’s biggest cyber threat Giving money to open source Court rejects RIAA’s ‘making available’ piracy argument Report: Microsoft earmarks $1.5 billion to keep Yahoo employees Another reason Microsoft should give up on Yahoo: Morale Analyst calls Microsoft surprised and frustrated Microsoft Very Quiet, but Something Is Happening Microsoft Should Fire Steve Ballmer, or Hire SuperNanny. Or Both. Eric Schmidt Trash Talks Microsoft Massive Attack: Half A Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection Hundreds of thousands of Microsoft servers hacked SUBJECT: Microsoft SWI blog inaccuracies Kubuntu Hardy Heron KDE 4 Remix review … on [KDE/Plasma] scripting Embedded developers and kernel hackers: can they work together? Everybody Hates Vista Microsoft struggles to get act together Vista struggles to bust out as business customers snub it Partners To Microsoft: Stop Bashing Vista Microsoft Turned Down ‘Portal’ for Xbox Live Arcade UVC support soon in vanilla kernel? Commercial KVM-based virtual desktop program arrives Linux gains lightweight media-oriented graphics stack Linux-based iSCSI accelerator goes embedded Linux CGL distro ported to multicore MIPS64 chips Telecom firm turns to open source model for its VoIP platform FreeSWITCH, a Second-Generation Open-Source Communications Platform Sun sheds light on its open-source future Kickfire: MySQL data box for the rest of us Ubuntu’s OpenGL face browser will bring bling to GDM Interview: Anaconda and Fedora 9 The open life of Second Life Acquia to Ship Commercially Supported Drupal Build Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi Social Networking and Open Source: Cut From the Same Cloth SpringSource claims first ‘proper’ application server The ExtJS debacle: What should its licensing strategy be? 12 of the Best Media Players for Linux Linuxfest Northwest 2008 Report Firefox 3 improves handling of invalid SSL certificates Cisco’s Linux-Based ISR Opens Road For Customized Solutions GNOME 2.24 roadmap released CDlinux 0.61 - The Compact Linux Distro Courtesy of/via

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    The MySQL Appliance

    http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/04/the_mysql_appl...
    17 days ago in O'Reilly ONLamp Blog · Authority: 384

    Well, this is nifty. A start-up named Kickfire has released a MySQL appliance. There is nothing “nifty” about a network appliance of course; that is, unless the appliance has specialized hardware and software to outperform a similarly configured in-house configured server. And that is the point behind Kickfire. They have designed a specialized processor for SQL servers and integrated this with MySQL using customized code. Apparently, the box screams. I first read about this on Jason Perlow’s blog, and he goes into greater detail, including notes about how this may set a trend for appliance based SQL servers running PostgreSQL, Oracle, and even Microsoft SQL Server. MS-SQL on an appliance? Now that would really be nifty.