The greatest open source software of all time Aug 18, 2009
A port of the Unix POSIX system calls to the Win32 environment, Cygwin allows you to run the GNU Compiler Collection and many GNU utilities on a Windows machine. Full compiled programming languages aren't for everyone, and several popular open source scripting languages are remaking the application development landscape. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Cobol remains old standby at agencies despite showing its age Jul 10, 2009
1952 Amazing" Grace Hopper begins development of natural language programming languages that would lead to Flowmatic, the precursor of Cobol. 1959 First Cobol specifications completed in December 1959 and published in April 1960. 1968 The American National Standards Institute develops the first industry standard for Cobol. 1997 The Gartner Group says about 80 percent of global business applications run on Cobol, amounting to more than 200 billion lines of code, with 5 billion... (FCW.com)
Test Center preview: Apple's Safari 4 Feb 27, 2009
In my runs of the SunSpider benchmark, Safari 4 beta skunked Firefox, which is the primary browser for POSIX platforms. (See the for my results. (InfoWorld)
File System Management Is Headed for Trouble Feb 24, 2009
The POSIX file system interface isn't up to the task of managing today's data, resulting in costly fixes for users to solve problems like data integrity and regulatory compliance ... Like it or not, the file system interface that everyone has standardized on is POSIX. The interface that we all expect file systems to support is the open() system call, or if using the C library interface, the fopen() call ... There have been no extensions to the call and the information that can be stored in a... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
5 UNIX vs. Linux: A Vendor's Perspective Feb 8, 2009
UNIX vs. Linux: A Vendor's Perspective. February 08, 2009 Hot topics. (CIO Information Network)
