http://kepler.nasa.gov/
After Kepler launches we will know about an additional 1-2k planets. 4-6 years after it launches we should know about at least one Earth 2.0.
I saw a demo of this product and it seemed neat. You install the daemons on your systems and it monitors all the socket & file opens. In this way it can map application dependencies on different machines or the same machine. I think it can scale to a few thousand machines. On the down side it's not free. When Symantec acquired Relicore the product was renamed to some bland, information free name like Configuration Manager.
http://www.symantec.com/Products/enterprise?c=prod info&refId=1461
The data available on the web can allow you to compare some attributes those products but it will not tell you what you really like and will spend money on. Look at different display technologies. Have the sales people plug in different things into the display to see how they look. Note the differences between how normal TV, 720p and 1080i are rendered. Play with the options to see how they change the picture. Note the lighting where the display is demoed. Is is too dark? Then it might be that the display will not work in the room where you expect to use it.
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http://kepler.nasa.gov/ After Kepler launches we will know about an additional 1-2k planets. 4-6 years after it launches we should know about at least one Earth 2.0.
I saw a demo of this product and it seemed neat. You install the daemons on your systems and it monitors all the socket & file opens. In this way it can map application dependencies on different machines or the same machine. I think it can scale to a few thousand machines. On the down side it's not free. When Symantec acquired Relicore the product was renamed to some bland, information free name like Configuration Manager. http://www.symantec.com/Products/enterprise?c=prod info&refId=1461
The data available on the web can allow you to compare some attributes those products but it will not tell you what you really like and will spend money on. Look at different display technologies. Have the sales people plug in different things into the display to see how they look. Note the differences between how normal TV, 720p and 1080i are rendered. Play with the options to see how they change the picture. Note the lighting where the display is demoed. Is is too dark? Then it might be that the display will not work in the room where you expect to use it.