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

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world – with a screen resolution up to 220 million pixels - and they're keeping it all to themselves from the looks of the picture below.

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.

By now I assume most people have tried out some form of virtualization.  Whether it be Microsoft's Virtual PC to create a security sandbox or a robust solution like VMWare to host multiple distinct servers on a single piece of iron, virtualization is making significant inroads.  

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.

We’ve been using Knopflerfish for some time now and are big fans of the OSGi framework. It’s great to see it going mainstream, largely due to its adoption by the Eclipse framework as their mechanism to keep components in sync.

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.