I believe that the "update" that was being spoken of in the article was the 2002 Standard for the language. There is another release of the standard pending and should be finalized this year. So we will have...
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India accounted for majority of the overall Asia Pacific market share in 2012. It is further expected to grow at a CAGR of 16.3% over the forecast period. Growing focus on customer relationship management in order to ensure...
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I don't know how many school districts can afford $539a student - and that's just for starters. I was involved with a project in one of the after school centers in Boston where we'd get hold of cast off computers and...
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Hi Petey - Thanks for your comment. The audience for this column is anyone who works in an enterprise IT organization. Young or old, male or female, whatever ethnicity - we are all in the same boat. The...
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Tablet based Patient Information System is going to boost the productivity of the medical professionals.Information/Data on patients health can be saved in a local computer server or internet server or cloud server using...
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I've tried a similar sleep cycle app, though I'm not sure it worked very well. The heart rate one seems interesting -- I wonder how well it works. Has anyone tried these others?
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I asked Lance Crosby, CEO of IBM SoftLayer, in an interview the day before this piece appeared why IBM would fund Cloud Foundry over OpenStack Solum/ Red Hat OpenShift. He said: "OpenStack to us is a little below that (PaaS)...
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Ah, gee, Brent Smithurst, that's not much of an endorsement of Red Hat's OpenShift. I guess I'm going to have to accept Joshua's bet myself. Will I have to declare that $10 as income?
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I'll take that bet, Charles. Not that I think OpenShift has a bright future on its own, but because I think it will take them longer than 10 months to figure it out. By the way, your comment, "There are now powerful vendors...
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That both Oregon's ineffective management under Carolyn Lawson and Oracle - her chosen partner - share blame for this debacle is not for debate. Assinging singular blame to either party in a marriage of this intimacy...
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Yes that's basically right. It's a secured, government only data center using Microsoft Windows Azure, which encompasses scalable, on-demand IaaS, PaaS and Data cloud services. It will allow government customers to ...
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I don't think it's quite like Android overtaking iOS. Apple's hardware margins are the envy of all device makers, and it milks more ecosystem profit than anyone. A company with that sort of control over lucrative customer...
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No, you didn't get that quite right. SAP and Oracle are competitors and both are proposing in-memory technology to provide speed advantages where needed. SAP Hana is an all-in-memory database, and it says its platform won't...
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It probably wasn't too hard for Dell, which had knew what it takes to pass military drop specs, to take some of hardened tech and reapply it. Funny when you think how there's a whole aftermarket to protect smartphones...
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...requiring the user to type with pinky extended upward.
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That doesn't surprise me, mak63-- I think that's a sensible way of looking at Windows 8.1 actually offers, as opposed to what it doesn't. But if customers are generally content after having some context realignment, why...
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You points are very valid and have been in play for years though many firms have failed to realize the benefits of such actions. I have spent over 20 years adjusting automated tasks to reduce down time and improve...
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Interesting comment re zero unemployment rate for gov. cybersecurity pros. Salary competition must be fierce vs. private sector right now with all the high-profile breaches.
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Not everyone in the healthcare community is convinced of Watson's value. One top hospital CIO recently told me that he thinks Watson is more hype than substance. Clearly, doctors are sensitive to any suggestion that they...
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