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CheckPoint’s Zone Alarm Virtualizes Browser Protection |
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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It’s a sign of the times that simply avoiding clicking suspicious emails and visiting only trusted, known websites is no longer adequate to avoid drive by downloads of spyware, keystroke loggers, and other malware that could seriously compromise your computer, identity, and financial security. Zone Alarm , a unit of Checkpoint, is introducing a new way to virtualize your browser so theoretically nothing bad hits your internal machine. |
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Hyperic Proves MySQL Can Become Industrial-Strength |
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
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MySQL, long known as the little open source web database that could, has grown enormously popular as the back end database for modest blog and websites like ours. But when it comes to the large transaction loads common to mission-critical systems, nobody has taken MySQL seriously. Fans of Postgres and its descendants, EnterpriseDB and latter-day Ingres, point to it as the open source alternative for mission-critical transaction workloads. A new benchmarking study being released by Hyperic this week at JavaOne shows that, when you do the right optimizations, MySQL actually can scale. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 09 May 2008 )
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JavaOne 2008: JavaFX Hits Broadway |
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
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Accompanied by an onstage appearance from Neil Young, who announced released of his complete music archives on a Java-enhanced Blu-Ray disk, the tone of Sun’s annual JavaOne extravaganza was pointed at extending the rich Internet environment to mobile devices. The crux of the announcements centered on JavaFX, a rich Internet application presentation layer (complete with its own declarative scripting language, JavaFX Script) first disclosed at last year’s event. Currently in develop preview, it’s going to start rolling out in phases, with support for desktop due in the fall, flowed by mobile and other platforms next spring. |
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Sun Burnishes Open Source Credentials at CommunityOne |
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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Seeking to highlight its status as the mature, enterprise alternative to Red Hat, Sun convened a special open source prequel to this year’s JavaOne, unleashing the much-awaited OpenSolaris and making a parallel announcement that OpenSolaris would be supported by Amazon's EC2 “Elastic” Computing Cloud. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 06 May 2008 )
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