- it have at least backups for their important files whenever the other computers commits error or acquires damages.
- it have at least 3 or 4 computers running whenever 2 or 3 computers have their maintenance.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
2.) Two reasons why a regional bank might decide to buy six server computers instead of one supercomputer:
Operating System News
New Windows could solve age-old format puzzle--at a price
To achieve the long-elusive goal of easily finding information hidden in computer files, Microsoft is returning to a decade-old idea.
The company is building new file organization software that will begin to form the underpinnings of the next major version of its Windows operating system. The complex data software is meant to address a conundrum as old as the computer industry itself: how to quickly find and work with a piece of information, no matter what its format, from any location.
For those using Windows, this will mean easier, faster and more reliable searches for information. Replacing its antiquated file system with modern database technology should also mean a more reliable Windows that's less likely to break and easier to fix when it does, said analysts and software developers familiar with the company's plans.
In the process, the plan could boost Microsoft's high-profile .Net Web services plan and pave the way to enter new markets for document management and portal software, while simultaneously dealing a blow to competitors.
But success won't come overnight. Building a new data store is a massive undertaking, one that will touch virtually every piece of software Microsoft sells. The company plans to include the first pieces of the new data store in next release of Windows, code-named Longhorn, which is scheduled to debut in test form next year.
"We're going to have to redo the Windows shell; we're going to have to redo Office, and Outlook particularly, to take advantage" of the new data store, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a recent interview with CNET News.com. "We're working hard on it. It's tough stuff."
Tough indeed. The development of the new file system technology is so difficult that Microsoft may have to market two distinctly different product lines while it completes the work--a move Ballmer concedes would be a huge step backward in the company's long-sought plan to unify its operating systems with Windows XP and Windows .Net Server, which has been delayed until year's end.
For years, Microsoft has sold two operating systems: a consumer version based on the 20-year-old technology DOS, and a corporate version based on the company's newer, built-from-scratch Windows NT kernel. The dual-OS track has frustrated software developers, who needed to support two different operating systems, and has confused customers, who often didn't understand the difference between them.
"Will we have two parallel tracks in the market at once? Not desirable. There are a lot of reasons why that was really a pain in the neck for everybody, and I hope we can avoid that here," Ballmer said. "But it's conceivable that we will wind up with something that will be put on a dual track."
Source: http://www.news.com/
To achieve the long-elusive goal of easily finding information hidden in computer files, Microsoft is returning to a decade-old idea.
The company is building new file organization software that will begin to form the underpinnings of the next major version of its Windows operating system. The complex data software is meant to address a conundrum as old as the computer industry itself: how to quickly find and work with a piece of information, no matter what its format, from any location.
For those using Windows, this will mean easier, faster and more reliable searches for information. Replacing its antiquated file system with modern database technology should also mean a more reliable Windows that's less likely to break and easier to fix when it does, said analysts and software developers familiar with the company's plans.
In the process, the plan could boost Microsoft's high-profile .Net Web services plan and pave the way to enter new markets for document management and portal software, while simultaneously dealing a blow to competitors.
But success won't come overnight. Building a new data store is a massive undertaking, one that will touch virtually every piece of software Microsoft sells. The company plans to include the first pieces of the new data store in next release of Windows, code-named Longhorn, which is scheduled to debut in test form next year.
"We're going to have to redo the Windows shell; we're going to have to redo Office, and Outlook particularly, to take advantage" of the new data store, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a recent interview with CNET News.com. "We're working hard on it. It's tough stuff."
Tough indeed. The development of the new file system technology is so difficult that Microsoft may have to market two distinctly different product lines while it completes the work--a move Ballmer concedes would be a huge step backward in the company's long-sought plan to unify its operating systems with Windows XP and Windows .Net Server, which has been delayed until year's end.
For years, Microsoft has sold two operating systems: a consumer version based on the 20-year-old technology DOS, and a corporate version based on the company's newer, built-from-scratch Windows NT kernel. The dual-OS track has frustrated software developers, who needed to support two different operating systems, and has confused customers, who often didn't understand the difference between them.
"Will we have two parallel tracks in the market at once? Not desirable. There are a lot of reasons why that was really a pain in the neck for everybody, and I hope we can avoid that here," Ballmer said. "But it's conceivable that we will wind up with something that will be put on a dual track."
Source: http://www.news.com/
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