This is an excellent knowledge and thank you for the share.
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I think the key with Win 8 is committing to the one OS across every platform. Since MS has a desktop mode in the x86 version that makes it hard to keep the same OS and UI when moving to ARM based devices. The...
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SaneIT, I really laughed out loud about the comment it's like Windows but not Windows!! I work EXTENSIVELY with Microsoft SCOM and SCCM and I swear MS is so stubborn in so many ways. They took a product like...
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DavidL602 has it right. Plus, with products like Acronis it is possible to do a bare metal recovery. With the sync/share, if you were to lose your laptop or have it fail, you would have to reinstall the OS which...
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As relational database was born in the mid-1980s, there was huge interest in it, along with constant headlines. IBM purposefully undersold it at the start due to customer disbelief and IBM worries about upending existing...
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It appears that only OEMs are locked in; users can select whatever search engine they want.
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The issue is really a "scoreboard" one. $30 billion RDBMS market; $0 billion NoSQL market. I agree that the analytical database space has shown more progression, but I really see that as a result of how intractable...
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Does that limit just the OEMs or does it lock customers to Bing too? If it just limits OEMs to Bing, that's fair. If the customer doesn't have a choice, it's not going to fly. Microsoft has thoroughly missed...
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I'm hearing that some banks see Hadoop as a tool in meeting regulatory requirements. Banks are having to do stress testing often enough that they need the speed of Hadoop to meet the demand.
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Excellent coverage of all things database. And, yes, the most popular databases of 10 years ago are still market leaders today, but Netezza and Greenplum were just getting the ball rolling on what is now a...
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@PDXnativeson So you're saying Oregon did a superior job of vendor and product evaluation, which led them to select Oracle foundation technologies as the basis of the state health insurance exchange? So where do you see...
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Yes, the state bought some substantial commercial-off-the-shelf systems for database, CRM, and other functions as the basis for the health insurance exchange, but these were to be treated as components of the grand system....
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HI,thanks for the post on chrome's new packaged apps, are there any documentation regarding development for the chrome packaged apps which run ouside the browser in their own window, I have been looking around but all i...
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I would like to add the download links for the X86 and ARM versions of Windows 8.1 if someone is interested and can't wait for April. Here are the download links to Windows 8.1 Update1 files. (Courtesy of Mydigitallife...
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Good point - we should have a know-how person in the enterprise, who has hands-on experience about security related technologies and the understanding about corportate security. CIO should not be the one who takes full security...
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Clearly Mr Lord is out of touch with the current state of the COBOL language. A little time and research would have shown COBOL is alive and evolving on an annual basis as venords and standr committees continue to...
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Or, as so often happens online, it is a post from someone who isn't who he says he is. I think a post like that needs to have a skeptical eye aimed at it.
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So in 2015 Microsoft may bring back features they introduced in 1995!
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Original Surface RT w/Type Cover owner here, and I've got my Surface 2 on order. In my opinion, the original RT was perfect for students and business use, whilst the new Surface 2 is ideal for a broader range of consumers...
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Thanks for sharing your experiences, Gregory and DHBarr. DHBarr-- you said you'd recommend it to clients after this update? I'd be curious to hear more. Were you hesitant to recommend it previously purely because of usability...
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