Oracle surveyed state of grid technology in business sector.

"The report reveals that India leads the world’s perceptions of moving towards a grid IT environment with 60 per cent of the organisations polled stating that grid-based IT infrastructure is inevitable or very probable. Moreover, nearly half (48 per cent) of organisations polled have already made or are in the process of embracing grid technology," Sundar Ram, Senior Director, Database Technologies, Oracle Asia-Pacific, said at a conference on the eve of Oracle OpenWorld event here.

The results of the latest Oracle Grid Index research indicates an increased awareness of enabling technologies such Services Oriented Architecture and Blade Servers, he added. |Read more Finance news.|

Ana Kronschnabl and Tomas Rawlings pick the best open source websites where users can change the content

1. Wikipedia
2. Firefox
3. Open Office
4. Bittorrent
5. MediaWiki
6. Xvid
7. pHpBB Bulletin Boards
8. Outfoxed
9. dyne:bolic
10. GIMP
11. Apache
12. SourceForge

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ThinkCAP is an internet application framework with AJAX for J2EE platform. It utilizes prototype.js and script.aculo.us like Ruby on Rails do.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or AJAX, a technique for creating interactive Web applications, has exploded onto the Web development scene, gaining popularity so quickly that some developers are lagging behind in their skills. To address the need for faster AJAX development, lots of companies and developer communities are coming up with Rapid Application Development (RAD) platforms for AJAX. One of those platforms, ThinkCAP JX Framework, combines more than two dozen open source libraries, and the "framework" portion of the application has just been released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
NewsForge | ThinkCAP goes open source

Google is entering into automobile and home appliance products. What is the next?

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The wonderfully-named Dr. Anita Borg (1949 - 2003) was a rebel with a cause: ensuring that technology itself has positive outcomes, and dismantling barriers that keep women and minorities from entering computing and technology fields. Today the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology carries on her vision. And because Google shares that passion, we are pleased to sponsor the . We are inspired by the -- and in hopes of finding more, the program is expanded this year to accept applications from students entering their senior year of undergraduate study as well as those enrolled in a graduate program. we awarded 23 scholarships; this year we"d like to do more.

Tell your friends, or yourself - the deadline is January 20.

You might ever encounter false alarm in Avast. Actually, I would say that I am a real fan of NOD32. NOD32 seems to be the best for me. My story started a few months ago. I recommended my friends to use NOD32 instead of Norton because its memory footprint was the best suitable for their machines (old ones) and NOD32 was so cheap in Thailand.