Thursday, March 11, 2004

ivata Open Portal 0.9. ivata Open Portal is a groupware/intranet system based around open standards. It is developed on the J2EE platform, and it provides an enterprise-ready solution, in contrast to other open source projects. Open Portal is a great tool to enable teams to find contacts in team and private address books, to share documents, to post articles and notes, to comment on articles, to receive notifications via mail, to plan meetings and other events in the calendar, to access email via the Web, and to store different document versions in a virtual drive. [freshmeat.net] 11:15:33 AM

Hitachi Unveils 400-Gbyte Hard Drive. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies on Wednesday announced a massive 400-Gbyte 3.5-inch ATA hard drive that it's pitching primarily to makers of digital video recorders (DVRs), but also to corporations as a "nearline" storage platform. The Deskstar 7K400, a 7,200-rpm (revolutions per minute) hard drive, will ship with either the standard parallel ATA or the newer, faster Serial ATA (SATA) interface, said Hitachi. [InternetWeek] Cool.  Now I can easily get 2 terabytes of data on the home server:-) 10:12:39 AM

The BBC offers a commercial-free version of RealPlayer. [Scripting News] 10:02:02 AM

Fedora Core 2 Shows 2.6 Kernel's Stuff - Fedora Core 2 is the first Linux distribution we've tested that ships with the 2.6 Linux kernel, and our evaluation indicates that the transition to 2.6 should be fairly smooth. Fedora performed stably overall, but the fact that this is a test release certainly showed in tests. Fedora Core 2 is slated for final release next month. Fedora Core 2 Test 1 is available for free download at fedora.redhat.com. [EWeek] 9:57:27 AM