Sun Microsystems Buys Mysql AB!

Jonathan Schwartz’ (Chief Executive Officer and President of Sun Microsystems) announced yesterday from his blog that Sun has acquired Mysql AB, the company behind the widest used open sourced database platform, Mysql. It was reported that the open source database was bought for approximately $1 billion. A price suitable for Mysql. Imagine all the Mysql users out there! Imagine your WordPress blog running...

Asus Eee PC for Eli?

I’ve been reading a lot of blog posts about Asus’ cute little notebook called the Eee PC. I even have an office mate who bought one couple of weeks ago. Though I heard there’s a pink one, she bought the white cute little one. There are lots of hacks and programs and things you can do with the Eee PC. But let’s talk about the hardware and specs… All the units have a 900MHz Intel Celeron...

Featuring Fedora 8

I have been a Linux fan for some time now, starting from (then free and open source) Red Hat Linux 6. When Red Hat Linux 9 was released in 2004 it was the last Red Hat version to be distributed by Red Hat (company) giving way to Red Hat Enterprise Server. The end of life of Red Hat 9 was the beginning of the Fedora Legacy Project. It is a community-supported open-source project to provide security and critical bug...

Photoshop Now OnLine!

The ubiquitous image manipulation software from Adobe System – Photoshop – will soon have an online version. Photoshop Express online photo-editing tool will be completed in 2008. But you wont have to wait that long. The Beta version is set to be released before the year ends! Here are some of what Photoshop Express can do (for now as Beta): Removed red-eye, Cropping, Adjust Color Tones Hues The...

The Blue Box

I remember the good old days of administering a small network of users where we share information online in a closed environment. It’s all done online and inside the company – an intranet. Back then, an intranet server is just an old PC collecting dust in one corner of the server and installing Linux with Apache. Now there are many great product available that will provide more functionality in an...