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Future of MySQL

I received a mail today which asked me to sign a petition on “Save MySQL” campaign. No doubt databases are very important for knowledge based industries and help web developers & custodians of knowledge management groups in handling, organizing and archiving the data. MySQL has a deadly combination with Linux. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) [...]

Carryout Banking Transactions from Linux to Prevent Frauds.

There has been growing awareness amongst IT security watchers to promote Linux for carrying out banking transactions. World over Windows OS environments are being used for carrying out all businesses be it banking or otherwise. There have been instances where malwares have been used to hack login codes of gullible users through web browsers on [...]

Linux guide for beginners

Still there are very few Linux users around the world. A newbie who is toying with an idea of staring out on Linux will have to first fight the odds which are there in his mind and then only he or she can fight the world which is outside. So when somebody mentioned a guide ”Linux [...]

Netbooks have caught fancy of India’s young generation

India sold 25,000 netbooks during Q1 of calendar year 2009. Sales figures are 100% more than what has been  for last quarter. So what is driving the figures northwards. Netbooks today is the only product in the PC segment which is registering positive growth albeit at the cost of regular notebooks and desktops.

Windows ruling Netbook market

Recent proclamation by Microsoft citing market research statistics from NPD that 96% of netbooks market is dominated by Windows OS is in fact, a revelation. It was believed that Netbooks where the size and processing has been optimized to carry out the basic tasks like surfing the web, sending mails and simple word processing tasks, [...]