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Books on Science - Essays Inspired by Microsoft’s Jim Gray, Who Saw Science Paradigm Shift - NYTimes.comComputational power created computational science, which produced the overwhelming flow of data, which now requires a computing change. It is a positive feedback loop in which the data stream becomes the data flood and sculptures a new computing landscape. “The advent of inexpensive ...
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Oracle To Buy Sun For Approximately $7.4 Billion - Hold On To Your HatsOracle Corporation is to buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in a deal valued at approximately $7.4 billion, just a few weeks after a deal by IBM to buy Sun fell apart. It looks like Oracle will pay a premium of $2.81 a share, or 42%, over Sun Micro’s closing price of $6.69 a share on Friday. ...
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MapReduce and the Database: Analytics in HyperdriveIn what could best be termed a photo finish, Greenplum and Aster Data Systems have both announced that they have integrated MapReduce into their massively parallel processing (MPP) database engines.MapReduce, pioneered by Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google for analyzing the Web, now ...
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