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Microsoft and Novell pact on SUSE Linux etc

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:09:16 -0700

Recent announcement of Microsoft and Novell pact covers the following grounds:

Support in virtualization of each other OS to coexist on same hardware.
Patent covenant so that buyers do not have to worry about patent infringement and related legal issues.
Better working together of MS Office and Openoffice suites.

The code phrase phenomenon

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:29:30 -0700

There is a new whiff in the air, of an old wine or maybe new wine in new bottle. Books having alluring words like 'code phrases' in their title are coming out.

RedHat announces stack with JBoss

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:02:50 -0700

RedHat has announced application stack with JBoss application server as one of the components along with others like Postgresql, mysql, Tomcat etc. This would benefit the corporate buyers who prefer to have IT deployments as a one-stop affair. Traditionally, deployment of open source based solutions has put the onus of integrating the various components like web server, application server, database on the system integrator or solution provider. Having a single company provide support for a 'stack' of components would assure buyers about one of the needling issues about support solution based on open source components. A single point of contact gives more confidence to buyers and will ease their concern about service and support.

Best Practices using Canoo Webtest

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:38:19 -0700

Best Practices using Canoo Webtest

Canoo Webtest is a good tool for functional testing of web applications. The test steps are specified as ant targets and tasks, which is xml based test specification. Since it does not involve coding in any programming language, it becomes very easy to iteratively develop and run test cases. In this article, we discuss some basic ideas to improve productivity of writing and maintaining test cases in Canoo Webtest.

Subversion integration with Guiffy Diff and Merge Tool

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:30:52 -0700

Subversion (svn) is a popular version control system, and has been written to provide several improvements over CVS versioning system. It also provides possibilities to integrate with third party applications for common tasks like diff and merge of working copies of files with those in version control. So for example, to do diff of a file, one would enter:

Google News and content quality

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:37:21 -0700

I read an interesting point of view on net about news and google news in particular. It said google news fetches news from other sources, and displays them based on whatever algorithm to rank stories. But however good the fetch and search algorithms may be, the ultimate quality of google news still relies on the original content writers themselves. If the journalistic quality of the original news content goes down, can the quality of google news remain the same ?

Update on google finance beta

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:51:51 -0700

Sometime back I had blogged on release of google finance beta. Recently, I searched for an Indian company on google and found a result pointing to google finance in search list. Intrigued, went to check out the stuff and here is the deal as I see it:

Google Finance Beta

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:59:49 -0700

A new service from google portfolio! But this one has a few interesting
features, which make it different from other google services.

Corporate blogging

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:28:33 -0700

I received by email a recent newsletter from Oracle Technology Network (OTN TechBlast) which had this announcement of an initiative to consoidate blogs about oracle in one place.

Dear OTN member:

It's clear to us at OTN (and across Oracle generally) that there's great value to the community in "nurturing" customer and employee blogs. For that reason, blogs.oracle.com has recently taken flight.

Google G-Drive

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:09:13 -0700

Information about G-Drive leaked out from a presentation kept on google site. The idea is not entirely new, some vendors e.g. godaddy.com (largest domain registrar, and web hosting provider) provides an online folder service. It costs from $5 to $10 a month depending on storage, which starts 1 GB onwards. If coming from google's stable, however, one would expect a scale and usability of a different order.

IBM announces free DB2 edition

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:08:58 -0700

IBM recently announced a free version of DB2 database server called DB2 Express-C. This follows after both Oracle and Microsoft had announced free versions of Oracle 10g and SQL Server 2005 respectively few months back.

Economics of commercial software licenses

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:04:28 -0700

Software Licenses used by software buyers are broadly of two types: Commercial and Open Source. Commercial licenses are more common for full applications like Outlook, or infrastructure software like database server. Open source licenses are commonly used for operating systems like Linux, and application servers like Apache, Tomcat, as well as database servers like MySQL, Postgresql etc.

Open source licenses for applications do not constrain the number of seats, no of connections or users etc. However, they may constrain the user of license in other ways. This article discusses commercial licenses in more detail below with regards to their benefits, maintenance, and selection of appropriate license.

Getting work and staying employed

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:14:58 -0700

A recent news says that the H1B limit of 20000 for skilled workers under category of graduating students has already been filled in US for fiscal 2006 (ending Oct 2006). This should suggest that there is good job creation happening in Hi-Tech sectors in US. However, the employment data in US otherwise does not indicate exceptional no of job increases. In that case, it could more likely mean that the job opportunities are better for highly skilled people, who have updated themselves with latest skills demanded in job market. For others who may have many years of experience but declining skills of relevance, it may be tougher in the job market.

Third party vs. Captives

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:43:47 -0700

Cryptic headlines sometimes make for interesting news. This is about a news item I recently read which mentioned the viability of product development outsourced to third party providers, vs. done by own captive development centres in India. And it was probably influenced by the newsmaker in question, which happened to be a third party provider.

Java language and innovation?

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:32:45 -0700

It is usual to see discussions and heated debates on internet forums about windows vs. Linux, best programming language, and so on. However, a different idea was floated in this blog link. It questions at a fundamental level the innovations that have happened in java language since it came into being.