Bob Sutor, IBM’s VP of open source and standards said at the Black Hat conference at Las Vegas that user should pay attention to design Linux interface less like windows. The UI design should comprise some unique and cool features. IBM joined hands with Linux distributors Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical at Linuxworld the day before to build “Microsoft-free PCs for business.”
The year 2007 witnessed rapid market growth of RDBMS (Relational Database Management System), with significant improvement on the part of the top five vendors in this space. The RDBMS market is estimated to have grown by 12.6 percent from $16.7 billion in 2006 to $18.8 billion in 2007.
A Supercomputer, Roadrunner built specifically to crunch military data has been unveiled by IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory boffins. It is capable of sustaining 1,000 trillion operations per second. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said the new computer will also be used to help solve global energy problems and “open new windows of knowledge” in basic research.
A new solid-state memory technology dubbed “racetrack” that offers 100 times the storage in the same space available on current hard disk drives and solid-state drives (SSDs) could be commercially available within a decade, according to Dr. Stuart Parkin and colleagues at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose.
IBM today announced that its new portal software, IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 Beta, with Web 2.0 support is going to narrow the gap between Enterprise and Web. The public beta is now available from ibm.com - WebSphere Portal 6.1 beta. The new portal supports IBM AIX, HP-UX, IBM I5/OS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows Server.
