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

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).

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.

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