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Ten Web 2.0 APIs you can really use – LinuxWorld, 12/18/06
One of the great outgrowths of the Web 2.0 phenomenon has been an increased availability of Web APIs – Internet-based services with an HTTP-based programming interface. Here are some of the more interesting and important APIs that you can use for real programming problems, either in Web applications or in desktop or server software.
Web APIs screenshots – LinuxWorld, 12/18/06
This week’s Linux news
The year ahead: VCs will back innovators with an enterprise focus – LinuxWorld, 12/21/06
Venture capital investments in 2007 will be aimed at enterprise-focused start-ups with products that push the innovation of wireless devices and services, security, open source and virtualization, industry experts say.
Bush signs law to study data center energy usage – LinuxWorld, 12/21/06
President George Bush has signed legislation directing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to study energy use in data centers.
Q&A: Cobol lives on – LinuxWorld, 12/20/06
Cobol may not make headlines much these days, with technologies such as Java and .Net viewed as the glamorous, contemporary platforms and Cobol seen as legacy code. But Cobol remains pervasive throughout enterprises.
The year ahead: Open source smackdown ahead in 2007 – LinuxWorld, 12/20/06
Now that Linux has become a data center mainstay, companies in 2007 should be taking a closer look at open source applications and how they can meet traditional business needs, industry experts say.
Microsoft names three takers for its Linux support – LinuxWorld, 12/20/06
Two banks and an insurance company have accepted Microsoft’s offer of technical support for Novell Inc.’s Suse Enterprise Linux.
Kernel Space: New revisions to the kevent API – LinuxWorld, 12/20/06
One proposed system call holds the promise of giving the userspace developer access to asynchronous network I/O, events such as file creation and deletion, and timer events.
Oracle simplifies pricing model – LinuxWorld, 12/19/06
Oracle plans to offer customers a range of simplified licensing models in an attempt to make pricing more consistent across its portfolio of products, developed in-house and acquired from competitors.
Solid releases high-performance storage engine for MySQL – LinuxWorld, 12/19/06
Solid Information Technology today released solidDB for MySQL, a database consisting of the MySQL RDBMS backed by Solid’s solidDB Storage Engine.
Five issues Microsoft must deal with to make an impact in 2007 – LinuxWorld, 12/18/06
It was a rough 2006 for Microsoft, relatively speaking for a company that posted $44 billion in revenue, as it weathered long-awaited new versions of Windows and Office. Buts the software giant heads into 2007, the newest incarnations of its cash cows are out there, a number of important product upgrades are on the board, highlighted by Longhorn Server, and the path to success over the next 12 months is littered with other challenges such as services and cross-vendor interoperability.
Pulling a story about the company’s name out of Red Hat – LinuxWorld, 12/18/06
Ever wonder why Linux company Red Hat is called that?
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A little vacation reading: What can software learn from Marc Levinson’s The Box?
Podcast: Ten Web 2.0 APIs you can really use: Evan Prodromou, 12/21/06
Evan Prodromou answers some questions about his ten most useful Web 2.0 APIs.
