Linux database becomes a browser
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| What Strata doesn't lack is muscle. Nate Williams told us that it's a
| full-blooded database, capable of handling a billion records. "We already
| have clients using it with 100m record data bases," he said. "We can sort a
| million records in a minute; so if you sort a ten million record data base,
| it takes ten minutes."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/kirix_browser_database/
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Study: Web-based instant messaging is growing fast
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| Who needs downloads? Not instant-messaging fans, apparently, according to
| Nielsen NetRatings. The online division of the legendary statistics-crunching
| company just released a study that tracks the fastest-growing
| instant-messaging software products from August 2006 to June 2007, and the
| results indicate that Web-based is the way to go.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9750641-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Road Warrior: Switching from Windows to Linux
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| Because there is growing use of Internet-based applications, having desktops
| and notebooks that are “thin clients,” or, in other words, designed to have
| access to centrally stored applications, will become more common. A good
| example of this is Google Documents, a word processing application where all
| of a users work is done online.
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http://members.whattheythink.com/allsearch/articleerc.cfm?id=30033
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