Gridgain http://www.gridgain.com/ is another great product with Spring and AOP-based grid computing. We have used it successfully after considering Terracotta, Gigaspaces, etc. It's very easy to use and has integration with ESB Mule. More info : http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/05/gridgain
We are actually considering implementing a chatty client-server communication in XMPP:)
This is a great opportunity for both countries to share the best scientists on both sides. This mission http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan/htmls/about_chandrayaan.htm is very critical and challenging for Indian scientists. They need every help they can get to pull this. In the past, when US denied supercomputing facilities, Indian went and reinvented the wheel http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2906865.stm (although the effort was worth it).With relations improving between two countries, it will be foolish and immature not to accomplish.
This effort will NOT face any opposition like the Nuclear deal. The nuclear deal went down the drain because the stupid "left" politicians played the "Indian congress government is surrendering to US" card. They also threatened to withdraw their support which would have collapsed the Congress ruling party http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm1688.cfm. This time, they will make sure this deal is made and take the bragging rights for landing India on the moon. Yes, the Indian politics is screwed up. But they are not fools to let this deal go away.
Here is what's significant about Google putting code into MySQL: they haven't done it before. Google has been a MySQL user from almost the very beginning, customizing the database in myriad ways to support Google's widely dispersed architecture with hundreds of thousands of servers. Google has felt no need previously to contribute code to MySQL. So what changed? While Google has long been able to mess with the MySQL code in ITS machines, it hasn't been able to mess with the code in YOUR machine and now it wants to do exactly that. The reason it will take so long to roll out MySQL 6.1 is that Google will only deliver its MySQL extensions for Linux, leaving MySQL AB the job of porting that code to the 15 other operating systems they support. That's what will take until early 2009.
http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressreleases _archives.php?id=213/
Ubuntu 7+ is supposed to be using Linspire's CNR technology (Is it?). How does the Linspire/MS agreement affect Ubuntu (since they have refused to sign anything wiht MS). Has anything happened in this scenario? I'm not aware of any. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
In 2000, Indian government and its partners launched simputer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simputer/. The license cost was too high and only 4000 units were sold. Today, another company, Geodesic, is producing low-cost computers called Amida Simputer, at Rs.12450 (aprox:$300) http://www.amidasimputer.com/. It has all the standard + fun features in a modern day laptop http://www.amidasimputer.com/features/. Rs.12000 is still a huge dent in an average Kumar's (?!!) salary. After a decade of research and development, the Indian government and IISC/C-DAC (research wing) is still unable to commercialize a cheap computer. IMHO, it is a mistake on their marketing and sales strategy. I know few developers who work on this project and they are very much skilled to implement any technology/features. If the government could spend a little more taxpayer's money and market this simputer aggressively, the cost could still go down. Also big companies and NGOs need to pitch in (they are busy minting US dollars from outsourcing). May be, they could sell the $300 amida for $100!
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Gridgain http://www.gridgain.com/ is another great product with Spring and AOP-based grid computing. We have used it successfully after considering Terracotta, Gigaspaces, etc. It's very easy to use and has integration with ESB Mule. More info : http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/05/gridgain We are actually considering implementing a chatty client-server communication in XMPP :)
This is a great opportunity for both countries to share the best scientists on both sides. This mission http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan/htmls/about_chandrayaan.htm is very critical and challenging for Indian scientists. They need every help they can get to pull this. In the past, when US denied supercomputing facilities, Indian went and reinvented the wheel http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2906865.stm (although the effort was worth it).With relations improving between two countries, it will be foolish and immature not to accomplish.
This effort will NOT face any opposition like the Nuclear deal. The nuclear deal went down the drain because the stupid "left" politicians played the "Indian congress government is surrendering to US" card. They also threatened to withdraw their support which would have collapsed the Congress ruling party http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm1688.cfm. This time, they will make sure this deal is made and take the bragging rights for landing India on the moon. Yes, the Indian politics is screwed up. But they are not fools to let this deal go away.
http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressreleases _archives.php?id=213/
Ubuntu 7+ is supposed to be using Linspire's CNR technology (Is it?). How does the Linspire/MS agreement affect Ubuntu (since they have refused to sign anything wiht MS). Has anything happened in this scenario? I'm not aware of any. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
In 2000, Indian government and its partners launched simputer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simputer/. The license cost was too high and only 4000 units were sold. Today, another company, Geodesic, is producing low-cost computers called Amida Simputer, at Rs.12450 (aprox:$300) http://www.amidasimputer.com/. It has all the standard + fun features in a modern day laptop http://www.amidasimputer.com/features/. Rs.12000 is still a huge dent in an average Kumar's (?!!) salary. After a decade of research and development, the Indian government and IISC/C-DAC (research wing) is still unable to commercialize a cheap computer. IMHO, it is a mistake on their marketing and sales strategy. I know few developers who work on this project and they are very much skilled to implement any technology/features. If the government could spend a little more taxpayer's money and market this simputer aggressively, the cost could still go down. Also big companies and NGOs need to pitch in (they are busy minting US dollars from outsourcing). May be, they could sell the $300 amida for $100!