EnterpriseDB announced that their PostgreSQL based database offering will be available inside of Amazon's EC2 cloud. Some details are available from Information Week

Interestingly enough, Adobe has added H.264 support in Flash. I wonder what this means for VP 6.2?

Here's an article about it

We’ve been trying to come up with a migration strategy for moving data between two versions of our JCR/Jackrabbit based application. This was motivated by the following goals:

The Cell SDK from IBM includes a useful library called ALF, the Accelerated Library Framework.

ALF provides a task oriented abstraction for having parallel work done on the Cell's SPU units. ALF allows a developer to define a task consisting of a compute kernel, essentially a block of code that will be executed on the SPU, and a set of work blocks that the task should be performed on. The library will handle SPU allocation and DMA transfers (including support for double-buffering).

Workflow engines have gone mainstream: Just take a look at Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Microsoft is giving it away free, bundled with .NET 3.0. Normally, workflow engines can cost upwards to $50,000.

I just got back from PGCon2007. My favorite part of conferences like PGCon is the informal discussions that take place in the halls between sessions and each night at the local pubs. A popular topic at both the formal and informal parts of the conference is how people are dealing with replication.

The scenario: Unauthorized content appeared on the company website, and it is possible that the site and other company servers have been compromised. The I.T. department has been hard at work for the last several hours tracking it down and expects to have an answer in the next few.

The question to ask is not how did this happen, but why is it taking so many people so long. In a company with even as many as twenty-five mission critical servers it should not take one individual more than an hour to answer this important question¹.

I read a presentation from the folks at Pervasive about their new DataRush product (http://www.pervasivedatarush.com/) along with an accompanying article hosted at http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=PervasiveDataRush

WebEx investors will receive $57 a share in cash, the companies said in a statement today. The offer is 23 percent higher than the Santa Clara, California-based company's closing share price of $46.20 yesterday.

The purchase, the biggest since the acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta Inc. last year, gives Cisco increased access to a market that is growing faster than its traditional business for switches and routers. WebEx's services for holding conferences on the Internet and sharing Web-based documents focus mainly on small and medium-sized companies.