IBM releases DB2 version 10, first big upgrade in 4 years

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	IBM releases DB2 version 10, the first big upgrade in four years Sensing a change in the way customers store and analyze data, IBM has updated its flagship DB2 relational database management software to handle a wider range of data processing duties. The company has also updated its InfoSphere data warehouse software. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com What if your key applications FAIL? Build for 100% application availability in the Cloud with Microsoft SQL Server. Achieve the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and security for your mission-critical applications while minimizing cost. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! In this Issue Oracle's latest JavaFX move: Too little, too late Why Amazon can't win a tablet price war against Google Green IT projects struggle for green light Citrix abandons OpenStack, takes CloudStack to Apache European Commission opens antitrust investigation of Motorola Mobility RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hosting.com What if your key applications FAIL? Build for 100% application availability in the Cloud with Microsoft SQL Server. Achieve the highest levels of availability, performance, scalability, and security for your mission-critical applications while minimizing cost. Learn more at the April 12 webinar from Microsoft and Hosting.com subject matter experts. Register now! Oracle's latest JavaFX move: Too little, too late Oracle, which has expressed its support of the JavaFX multimedia software platform as far back as three years ago, when the company announced plans to Sun Microsystems, is making another move to satisfy skeptics by hiring two evangelists to trumpet the technology. But Oracle's push could prove too little too late for the Java-based JavaFX platform to dominate. Read More Why Amazon can't win a tablet price war against Google When you order something from Amazon, it comes in a box. Boxes are important to Amazon's business. But they're not in the box business. They don't make money on boxes. Amazon is happy to lose a little money on boxes because it enables them to profit from what's inside the box. To Amazon, a tablet is just another kind of box. Read More Green IT projects struggle for green light If you're an IT professional, there's a good chance you've been charged by the powers on high to cut energy costs at your organization -- without much in the way of incentive, guidance, budget, or other support. Fortunately, the green IT movement has been around long enough that you can learn from your brethren's experiences regarding not only which green-tech initiatives have the highest return but are the easiest to get approved and be deployed. Read More Citrix abandons OpenStack, takes CloudStack to Apache Citrix has abandoned its Olympus OpenStack distribution and will focus instead on its open-source CloudStack operating system, which it has contributed as a project under the Apache Software Foundation. As part of the announcement, Citrix said CloudStack will continue to support Amazon's APIs (application programming interfaces) and believes such support is crucial to the success of cloud platforms. It implied it has Amazon's blessing. Read More European Commission opens antitrust investigation of Motorola Mobility Europe's top competition regulator has launched two antitrust investigations into Motorola Mobility. Following complaints by Apple and Microsoft, the European Commission will assess whether Motorola Mobility has failed to license standards-essential patents on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms as required by both the Commission and standard setting organizations. Read More
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