Virtual Iron offers Windows by the slice
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Free taste, pay for the whole pie Virtual Iron has popped out a new release of its server virtualization software, adding support for Microsoft's Windows operating system.â¦
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VMware's Pocket ACE is designed for mobile workers who may not have a laptop with them in the field but who could use an available desktop computer to run virtualization software.
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The Weather Channel Interactive today launched a new tool that uses Microsoft Virtual Earth to let users collect weather information down to the street level.
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Blog: Microsoft's Photosynth technology for stitching 2D images into a 3D realm will illustrate the How We Built Britain Web site.
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New VMware Fusion for Mac lets Windows apps run on the Mac OS; free VMware Player 2 runs virtual appliances on Windows or Linux.
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Among new products from 3am Labs is a free tool for accessing a PC via any device with a browser.
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THE modern PC is a marvel, isn&#39;t it? Here&#39;s a machine that lets an ordinary person with very little training create a new document, check its spelling, dress it up with graphics, send it electronically
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Apple launches a version of its web browser Safari for Windows machines.
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Adobe Integrated Runtime, formerly dubbed Apollo, paves the way for Web applications that perform like desktop-bound programs.Images: Building apps on AIR
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SaphireSteel Software, which helps Microsoft Visual Studio users work with the Ruby on Rails Web framework, launched on Monday a version of its Ruby In Steel IDE embedded with Visual Studio 2008 capabilities.Ruby In Steel Text Edition, priced at $49, is hosted in the Visual Studio 2008 Shell, which enables tools to be built based on the Visual Studio IDE. With Text Edition, developers do not need to have their own copy of Visual Studio as they have with the previously released Ruby In Steel Developer Edition, said Huw Collingbourne, SapphireSteel technology director."We put all our support into Visual Studio so the end-user gets a Ruby-flavored edition of Visual Studio," with its attendant capabilities, Collingbourne said.Use of the Visual Studio Shell gives SapphireSteel a chance to compete with Eclipse-based IDEs, such as CodeGear's 3rdRail, which also is billed as a Rails IDE, SapphireSteel said. But 3rdRail costs $399.Text Edition does not support Microsoft languages like C# or C++, but HTML designer and JavaScript support is included. While lacking the high-performance debugger and IntelliSense code completion capabilities of the $199 Ruby In Steel Developer Edition, Text Edition features both RHTML and embedded Ruby in Rails editing."[Developers] have the choice of which templating system they want to develop in," said Collingbourne.Ruby in Steel Text Edition and tools like it received a thumbs-up from Ruby on Rails founder David Heinemeier Hansson in an e-mail on Monday."I have not used it myself, but I'm very happy to see this growth spurt of new tools dedicated to Ruby on Rails crop up," Hansson said. "Ruby In Steel is particularly interesting to developers coming over from the Microsoft world as Visual Studio is a familiar environment to them. That'll likely ease the transition."Other features in Text Edition include code coloring and folding for focusing on specific parts of code, auto-expand snippets plus a snippet editor, bracket and keyword matching, and code formatting tools.Integrated debugging with step into/over/watch variables is featured; developers can see how variables change.Also offered is customization with alternative color schemes, integrated command prompt and docked interactive Ruby and IRB (Interactive Ruby) consoles. Users also get an all-in-one setup program to install Visual Studio, Ruby, Ruby In Steel, and the MySQL database. Comprehensive documentation and help are offered as well.
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OpenOffice.org's extensive use of floating windows puts some of the most-used editing tools at your fingertips.
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(InfoWorld) - Virtual Iron and XenSource both are introducing new virtualization software to undercut on price the dominant player in the field, VMware. On Monday, Virtual Iron is set to start offering Version 3.1 of its enterprise-class virtualization platform for a license price of $499 per socket, which is less than 20 percent of the $2,875 per socket price for a comparable VMware license, according to Virtual Iron. Virtual Iron argues that VMware's pricing is a barrier to more widespread adoption of virtualization in data centers, citing IDC research that only 6 percent of data center operators deploy any type of virtualization. Also Monday, XenSource introduced new and upgraded virtualization products, also at sub-$1,000 prices. Both XenSource and Virtual Iron build their proprietary products on top of the open-source Xen platform for virtualization hypervisors. A hypervisor is technology that makes it possible for one computer to run multiple operating systems at the same time. VMware's products are not based on open source. Virtualization refers to software and other system management tools that are used to better utilize servers. Virtualization makes it possible for one physical server to run multiple applications simultaneously. Advanced virtualization features include tools to seamlessly move computing workloads from one physical server to another, set up infrastructure and test new software. Revenue at VMware, a wholly owned subsidiary of storage vendor EMC, grew 86 percent in EMC's fiscal third quarter to $188.5 million. If that pace keeps up, VMware's annualized revenue would be $750 million, VMware said. Virtual Iron and XenSource intend to slow that pace. "We are taking a very aggressive stand on pricing," said Mike Grandinetti, chief marketing officer for Virtual Iron. The Charlotte Observer newspaper in North Carolina uses Virtual Iron. It took 45 minutes to run a particular job on its legacy Unix-based servers, said Geoff Shorter, the Observer's IT infrastructure manager. VMware completed the same job in 11 to 13 minutes, but so did the less expensive Virtual Iron. The license for the high-end VMware product costs $5,750 to run on a dual-socket server, Shorter said. Virtual Iron's license is $499 per socket, so the total cost for a dual-socket machine license would be $998. Pricing for XenSource's XenEnterprise starts at for $488 for an annual subscription license for a dual-socket server or $750 for a perpetual license. XenServer for Windows, introduced Monday, sells for $99 per dual-socket server, per year. It has fewer features than XenEnterprise. "Our intention is to dramatically shift the landscape under VMware," said Simon Crosby, XenSource's chief technology officer. Virtualization is following a classic economic model of an early mover dominating a market and charging a premium, soon followed by challengers competing on price, said Gordon Haff, principal IT advisor at Illuminata Inc., a technology research company. Haff said enterprises that have deployed VMware are seeing a positive return on their investment despite the price and he doesn't think price alone is keeping enterprises from adopting virtualization. "Even if virtualization software were free, it wouldn't become ubiquitous because of the complexity of the implementation," he said.
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Here's an interesting Howto on connecting FlickrFan to the Mac desktop. I love this stuff.  Here's a movie that demonstrates this coolest of hacks.
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The online shopping and download center for Windows-related stuff gets a public workout.
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Will a nonprofit-driven browser tackle the behemoth from Redmond?
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This image gallery provides a closer look at the screens you'll see as you perform the quick customization tips in our story "Five Ways to Bend Windows Vista to Your Will."
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If youâve ever wanted to grab a screen shot, youâll definitely want to watch the video Quick Tip of the Week. It shows you the keyboard shortcuts you can use to capture a single window, the entire desktop, or a portion of it that you define. From creating PDFs in any application to using the built-in Dictionary to viewing multiple Inspectors in Pages, the Quick Tip of the Week shows you how to get more out of Mac OS X, iWork, Mail, iLife, and other Mac applications.