Top Stories by Stephen L. Michel
What does the Apple/Intel thing mean? It may not mean an awful lot.
The first question that springs to mind is, will Macs be cheaper? Maybe, in
the long run. And Mac users will probably get faster processors sooner now
than they would have from IBM. But probably not as fast or as soon as we
would have if Steve had climbed into bed with AMD instead of Intel.
In the portable arena, the changes will be more dramatic; the G4 & G5 have
been notoriously difficult to produce in minimal wattage systems.
What it doesn't mean, especially in the medium term, is that you'll be able
to buy a shrink-wrapped copy of OS X to run on your inexpensive no-name PC
clone. Apple will probably continue to control the hardware as much as
possible, selling its own Macs, and making sure that you ... (more)
The acronym LAMP is gaining critical-mass credibility among developers.
Staying away from describing how it will "light up" or "illuminate" the
development landscape, let's just simply say that LAMP is an acronym that
generally means Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
LAMP is a collection of open-source tools that provide full-service web
solutions. One of the things that makes LAMP so popular ... (more)
This week's MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara, CA, looks to be the biggest
and most important gathering of the MySQL faithful yet. Those signed up for
the conference are getting hit by at least an email a day, inviting them to
stop by such-and-such a booth to see so-and-so's new product.
There are a lot of reasons for this, but the overarching one is the recent
releases of two versions ... (more)