Thursday, November 22, 2007

Two Reasons Why Regional Bank decided to buy six server computers instead of one supercomputer:

  • they can have at least backup for their important files when the other computers commits error or acquires damage.
  • they can have at least 3 or 4 computers running when 2 or 3 computers have their maintenance.

Operating System News

The Most Popular Operating System in the World

What is the world's most widely used operating system? It's not Windows, Unix or Linux, but ITRON, a Japanese real-time kernel for small-scale embedded systems. ITRON runs on mobile phones, digital cameras, CD players and countless other electronic devices.ITRON emerged as an ambitious Japanese initiative known as The Real-time Operating system Nucleus (TRON). Launched in 1984, TRON was designed to replace disparate computer systems with a unified, open architecture for a "total computer environment."Its ultimate goal was to create "highly functionally distributed systems" in which all system components are connected to a real-time network . Professor Ken Sakamura, spiritual father of TRON, conceived the project as a social infrastructure akin to the electrical power grid or water supply system.Now, the T-Engine Forum, an offshoot of the TRON project with more than 250 member companies, has been working to create a standardized development environment for embedded applications based on ITRON. Vendors of proprietary solutions are worried -- or at least should be.

Source: http://www.linuxinsider.com/