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BotchagalupeMarks for August 9th – 16:00
By John | August 10, 2009
These are my links for August 9th from 16:00 to 18:37:
- NoSQL: If Only It Was That Easy « Marked As Pertinent – The biggest thing in web apps since “rails can’t scale” is this idea that “your rdbms doesn’t scale.” This has gone so far as to be dubbed the coming of age for “nosql” with lots of blog posts and even a meetup. Indeed, there are many promising key-value stores, distributed key-value stores, document oriented dbs, and column oriented db projects on the radar. This is *definitely* a great thing for the web application scene and this level of variety will definitely open doors for organizations large and small in the near and long term.
- Bits or pieces?: Why open source clouds are essential … – "Cloud computing" (today's terminology for an old concept) represents a combination of factors that are accelerating the transition of common IT activities from a product to a service based economy. It's not per se a specific technology but a result of concept, suitability of activities, change in business attitude and available technology
- COBOL – Still doing the business | CIO – Blogs and Discussion – The statistics that surround COBOL attest to its huge influence upon the business world. There are over 220 billion lines of COBOL in existence, a figure which equates to around 80% of the world’s actively used code. There are estimated to be over a million COBOL programmers in the world today. Most impressive perhaps, is that 200 times as many COBOL transactions take place each day than Google searches
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