Jolicloud is an OS based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix and designed specifically for netbooks. The beta version gets released, very soon.
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The Open Database Alliance Launched
Monty Program Ab, a MySQL database engineering company, and Percona, a MySQL services and support firm, have announced the ‘The Open Database Alliance’, a vendor-neutral consortium designed to become the industry hub for the MySQL open source database, including MySQL and derivative code, binaries, training, support, and other enhancements for the MySQL community and partner ecosystem.
Intel fined a record $1.45 billion by EU
The European Commission has imposed a fine of $1.45 billion on Intel Corporation for violating the EC Treaty antitrust rules on the abuse of a dominant market position (Article 82). The EC finds Intel guilty of engaging in illegal anti-competitive practices to exclude competitors from the market for computer chips called x86 central processing units (CPUs).
Sun Reports Surge in Adoption of the Sun Unified Storage Family
Sun has announced that hundreds of customers across a range of industries have purchased high-performance, eco-efficient Flash-enabled Sun Storage 7000 Systems to store more than 17 petabytes of data, making it the fastest ramping new product in Sun’s storage portfolio ever.
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