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[SpikeWed] Solaris is not dead yet, Asterisk 1.2 released, FireFox 1.5 coming 29th Nov, MySQL takes fork in the road, Christmas Facts #33, #32
David Berlind over at the ZD-NET blog writes a good roundup of the rise of Solaris in light of the recent announcements by a couple of hardware manufacturers (inc. IBM) to officially support Solaris on their kit. People where quick to write off Solaris in wake of the Linux juggernaut but it would appear that choice even at the server side is still appealing to corporate customers.
Asterisk, the open source IP based PBX released version 1.2. For those of you possibly unaware (I was until last month at EuroOSCON) of Asterisk, this project has been on the go for over a year now, providing voice over IP solutions and interoperating with many different protocols. The lead sponsor Digium Inc., is a hardware manufacturer of telephony kit, allowing you to run a complete in-house telephone network with inexpensive equipment.
Christopher Beard, VP of Products at Mozilla, hinted that the 29th November is more than likely going to be the big splash for FireFox 1.5 to be released. Last time they invited donations to be made for them to take out a full page ad in the New York Times. This time, they are asking people to send in small videos on why people should be moving to FireFox. They have no idea if this idea will sink or swim. Beard also talked about future releases, with a release schedule of around every 6months, so FireFox2 is going to be here mid 2006, with FireFox3 in early 2007. I have been running with the latest Release Candidate for a week now, and baring the fact it can't render http://www.wired.com/ correctly and never releases memory back to the operating system, its going very well.
MySQL held their customer conference yesterday in London, and spoke about Oracle's recent purchase of the company behind the InnobDB storage engine. MySQL co-founder David Axmark talked that since InnoDB was under a GPL license, the code was already out there and they could pick up the reins and run with it. Whether this means they would fork the code, or re-engineer parts of it to side step any patents that Oracle may now hold is unclear. But their message to their customers was not to worry.
Countdown to Christmas Facts #33 and #32:
In 1834, Prince Albert put up the first Christmas tree in Windsor Castle for Queen Victoria, which became a focal point for the country. However, since the World War II, the Norwegian government sends Britain a big Christmas tree for pride and place in Trafalgar square. This is thanks for Britain's help to the people of Norway during the war. In the US, it was President Franklin Pierce, 1856, that decorated the first White House Christmas tree.
Courtesy of http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Cottage/8409/facts.html
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