College student fights warrant seizing his computer
Boston College is finding itself in the middle of a controversy over its handling of a case involving a student who allegedly
sent an e-mail claiming that a fellow student was gay and used a college computer network to change grades.
Amazon EC2 extends 'reserved instances' to Europe
Amazon is now offering the "reserved instances" pricing plan for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to European customers, according
to a post on the official Amazon Web Services blog.
A faster, sleeker way to do MySQL?
The archetypal MySQL database chugs along in the server room of a Web 2.0 start-up, powering a small but promising Web site.
In fact, a quarter of the 12 million MySQL installations are data warehouses doing business intelligence and analytics for
companies.
Red Hat connects its distributor SYNNEX with ISVs
Red Hat is helping nine of its open-source ISV partners get broader distribution for their products in North America through
a partnership with one of its major distributors, SYNNEX.
Mozilla ponders dropping Firefox support for Win2K, early XP
Mozilla Corp. is considering dropping support for Windows 2000 and the earliest versions of XP when it ships the follow-up
to Firefox 3.5 in 2010, online discussions show.
5 Misunderstood Facts About ERP
Think you know everything about ERP? Here are five things to consider:
Sun's open-source boss slams App Engine's Java support
Google committed a major transgression by only including support for a subset of Java classes in its App Engine development
platform, according to Sun Microsystems' chief open source officer, Simon Phipps.
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