Stories by Rick Grehan

Article | 8/12/2009 First look: Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL server in the cloud
Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud. 
Article | 3/07/2009 Cloud control systems tame the ether
Signifying a formless haze of computing power and storage that is somewhere "out there," computerdom's current buzzword is as difficult to get one's a...
Article | 11/05/2009 Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Have you got a few hundred gigabytes of data that need processing? Perhaps a dump of radio telescope data that could use some combing through by a squ...
Article | 25/02/2009 More specialty Linuxes to the rescue
The day of the mold-your-own OS has come, and Linux is the clay.
Article | 12/11/2008 Specialty Linuxes to the rescue
Linux is, among other things, a customizable operating system. Clever developers can craft a Linux whose kernel and packages are configured for a spec...
Article | 9/05/2008 .Net comes to WebSphere Portal
In the beginning, Mainsoft released Visual MainWin for Java EE, which compiled .Net CIL (Common Intermediate Language) code into Java bytecode. As tec...
Article | 13/03/2008 Inside Google's mobile future
The Open Handset Alliance's Android SDK for creating mobile applications throws a few semantic curves at Java developers, but for the most part, they ...
Article | 28/02/2008 Inside Google's mobile future
Android is Google's foray into the handheld OS realm. It follows a path trodden by -- among others -- Symbian's Quartz, the SavaJe operating system, a...
Article | 28/07/2004 FastObjects add option to .Net databases
FastObjects .Net brings object-oriented database technology to the .Net environment. Given that the majority of .Net database applications employ RDBM...
Article | 16/06/2004 Visual MainWin offers best of .Net, Java
When I first heard about Mainsoft's Visual MainWin for J2EE, I thought the concept was a harebrained idea. Just skimming some of the product's help to...

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