SCO Down for the Count

I know.  Hardly unexpected.  Certainly not fresh news.  But oddly satisfying to post, nevertheless.

The SCO Group Receives Nasdaq Notice Letter

LINDON, Utah, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The SCO Group, Inc. (the “Company”) , a leading provider of UNIX(R) software technology and mobile services, today announced it received a notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market indicating that the Company’s securities will be delisted from Nasdaq on September 27, 2007, pending an appeal.

Linux.com :: SCO files for bankruptcy

Microsoft guaranteed investments in the SCO case through a third-party investment firm, but even with help from Redmond, SCO is now admitting that it prefers to simply shrug off its debts through Chapter 11 than to continue bleeding red ink.

Googlicious

Google Shared Stuff

Google’s social side is more visible every day. A new service called “Shared Stuff” lets you share interesting links with your friends and the entire world. You need to drag a bookmarklet to your browser’s link bar or to click on the “Share” button from a web page (the button can only be found at Google Video right now).

Google Takes on PowerPoint

A quick look shows that it does a fine job of rendering old MS powerpoints, but I didn’t see any easy-to-use starter templates or clip art.

Techtree.com India > News > Software > Presentation Added to Google Docs

Reportedly, starting today, the application named ‘Google presentation’ has been added to Google Docs. Using this application, users can create Web-based presentations, as well as view and update them from any Internet-connected PC anytime.

PostgreSQL vs. MySQL in speed and reliability

PostgreSQL: Why PostgreSQL Instead of MySQL: Comparing Reliability and Speed in 2007

For years, the common industry perception has been that MySQL is faster and easier to use than PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is perceived as more powerful, more focused on data integrity, and stricter at complying with SQL specifications, but correspondingly slower and more complicated to use.

Like many perceptions formed in the past, these things aren’t as true with the current generation of releases as they used to be. Both systems have evolved with landmark releases that make comparing the two a lot more complicated.

Web 2.0 Tools not liked by IT Services

Well?  What do you expect when the tools that leverage the next big leap in productivity at your company have slipped through IT’s fingers and are freely available in the cloud? 

IT is a key barrier to corporate Web 2.0 adoption, users say

Most speakers at the Office 2.0 conference here this week agreed that Web 2.0 tools will make their way into the enterprise, propelled by user demand for tools that can make them more productive.

However, they also warned corporate Web 2.0 champions to steel themselves for resistance to the use of blogs, wikis, mashups, social networks and other tools — especially from IT organizations.

Faster Alternatives to Relational Databases

One of the pioneers of relational databases says its time to move on…

As a result, “Vertica beats all row stores on the planet — typically by a factor of 50,” he wrote. “The only engines that come closer are other column stores, which Vertica typically beats by around a factor of 10.”