The latest news articles selected by Octave Computing Limited that we believe may be of interest to consumers and businesses.
World IPv6 Day
Tuesday 01 February 2011
Link Tags: business consumer hardware o/s
On the 8th June 2011 the World IPv6 Day begins. Many major organisations will be taking part by enabling IPv6 on their main URLs for one day. Octave Computing Limited will be taking part. In fact we have been IPv6-connected on all services since our domain was registered. We welcome any progress towards restoring the end-to-end connectivity that made the Internet into what it was.
Sun's direction becoming clearer
Tuesday 17 August 2010
Link Tags: business database hardware o/s software
Oracle has filed suit against Google with regards to Google's use of Java in Android mobile devices. In other news, Oracle has cut-off OpenSolaris. Oracle has also been shutting down PostgreSQL build servers.
Oracle and Sun
Monday 22 February 2010
Link Tags: business o/s software
We are keeping a close eye of some important technologies in the wake of the Sun Microsystems takeover by Oracle. It is interesting to see what will happen to Java, Open Office and Open Solaris.
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released
Sunday 15 February 2009
Link Tags: business consumer o/s software
Netbook operating system choice
Sunday 14 December 2008
Link Tags: business consumer hardware o/s
The Economist has an interesting article on the decisions you need to make when choosing a netbook computer. It is suggested that you use the bundled tuned operating system based on the Linux kernel.
By attempting to use MS Windows on the small, cheap netbook you need increasing amounts of resources such as more memory and a traditional hard disk drive. The cost of these upgrades increases the price of the netbook in line with a cheap notebook computer. Unfortunately the netbook's performance will suffer from having less memory and a cut-down processor.
