Skyhawk PSR-4650WN Aluminum Case Review
I gotta tell ya, I love this case. No it isn't a Lian Li, but it's less than half the price. I am glad there is a quality, affordable alternative for those who want the cooling power and good looks of an aluminum case.
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Plextor Plexcombo IDE DVD/CDRW Drive Review
"If you have never considered a combo drive think of the advantages. You only use one drive bay in your tower. DVD, CDRW, CDR, CDROM all play in the drive. Temperatures in your case will be lower due to one less drive in there. And, if you are a case modder, one more free 5 1/4 bay is always a treat in this day and age of LED readouts, fanbuses etc. As you can see, lots of reasons to go combo."
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I gotta tell ya, I love this case. No it isn't a Lian Li, but it's less than half the price. I am glad there is a quality, affordable alternative for those who want the cooling power and good looks of an aluminum case.
View: Skyhawk PSR-4650WN Aluminum Case Review @ tweakhound.comPlextor Plexcombo IDE DVD/CDRW Drive Review
"If you have never considered a combo drive think of the advantages. You only use one drive bay in your tower. DVD, CDRW, CDR, CDROM all play in the drive. Temperatures in your case will be lower due to one less drive in there. And, if you are a case modder, one more free 5 1/4 bay is always a treat in this day and age of LED readouts, fanbuses etc. As you can see, lots of reasons to go combo."
View: Plextor Plexcombo IDE DVD/CDRW Drive Review @ Ascully.com
If you take the alternative view and look at functionality, then IBM is clearly expanding the range of application areas for DB2 with version 8. There are a whole series of new features relating to XML integration, ready for the world of web services when it eventually attains critical mass. This includes automatic XML schema validation and automatic transformations via XSL. In effect all XML documents can be stored (as XML columns in a table) and recomposed when required.
WebSphere Studio now provides DB2 XML productivity tools. Federated access to XML is also provided, which we believe will be an important feature in time. If you add this to the various content management capabilities that are already in the DB2 portfolio, IBM can legitimately claim to have the broadest area of application of the major database vendors.
However, IBM's major battle is with Oracle and it is being fought out on UNIX and WNT. DB2 on both the iSeries (previously known as the AS/400) and on the zSeries (previously known as the s390 or the mainframe) are actually different versions of DB2 and now have little direct relevance to the database war with Oracle. Oracle does not compete heavily on the zSeries and not at all on the iSeries. Overall IBM leads Oracle with a total market share of 34.6 percent to Oracle's 32 percent (according to recent Gartner figures).
However, on UNIX and WNT Oracle is the dominant product. In these markets Oracle has been losing ground slowly. On UNIX Oracle has 63.3 percent of the market to IBM's 24.7 percent and on Windows Oracle has 34 percent to IBM's 20.7 percent. Oracle's market share in both markets has declined, by just under 3 percent in the UNIX market and just over 4 percent on Windows. With Version 8 of DB2, IBM is adding further competitive pressure.
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