(Español) Oracle hace una movida que afecta la Accesibilidad
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Acording to the website webmasterpro.de (translated using Google Translate) new measures put the OpenOffice package with 20% market share in Germany. Microsoft Office marks 72%. Competitions is a must in this area so this piece of data is very welcome.
Starting in March Google will drop support for the Internet Explorer 6 browser. This move, entitled in their blogs as “Modern Browsers for Modern Applications” was justified not only by the age of the browser but also aiming to provide a better service for Google Docs and other online applications.
The initiative began months ago and now it seems to be a reality. The problem: old browsers are slow, unsecure and don’t support new tecnology standars like CSS and AJAX correctly.
Some people claim that this move was also influenced by the recent attacks to Google in China were Operating System and Browser vulnerabilities were exploited in order to harm Google’s network.
IE6 is still in use since several applications, specially in the corporate level, were designed specifically for this browser and the cost to upgrade these machines is sometimes very hig. However Microsoft and other known businesses offered different solutions to help people to move to a newer browser.
MySQL es la base de datos qeu usamos en QuasarCR.com y para todos los clientes. Es gratis, código abierto, funciona muy bien. Breve historia: el proyecto se creó por Michael “Monty” Widenius y David Axmark en el 94. Mucho éxito, se formó MySQL AB, la empresa pasó a ser más corporativa (acciones y toda la cosa), creció más, full soporte para empresas, gran proyecto… se vendió a Sun Microsystems, otra empresa de servicios gigante (encargada de Java)… Mony Widenius se fué ya que en ese momento solo tenía acciones y proyectos en la manga entre ellos MariaDB (proyecto similar a MySQL).
Oracle, competidora de MySQL y en cierto modo opuesta por ser 100% paga compra Sun. Se arma gran revuelo pero la empresa dice que mantendrá el proyecto.
Un año después (actual) sale la petición de la mano de Widenius alertando sobre el futuro de MySQL.
Realidades y Críticas que se presentan en varios lados:
En definitiva seguramente voy a firmar la petición, solo por el hecho de que mantengan el proyecto… en cuanto a las negociaciones que se hicieron: nunca estuve de acuerdo y no me parece que una empresa como Oracle compre MySQL. Por poner un ejemplo sería como que Microsoft compre Canonical, la empresa que desarrolla Ubuntu.
Mozilla Released today the new Mozilla Thunderbird 3 e-mail cliente. With new features and some updates:
Check all features and more information about Mozilla Thunderbird 3
MockingBird is a web application to design mockups. It was built using AJAX (Capuccino, Framework) so there is no need to download anything in order to use it.
Designs created with this application can be shared with customers. It is a great tool, not only for designers, customers can also use the tool to make their thoughts appear as a base mockup and then send it to the designer for further adjustments.
Ubuntu Linux, versión 9.10 Karmic Koala is ready for dowload. The last two versione swhere really good in terms of migration, upgrades. I’m hoping this version follows the same path. I like to see that with each new version more and more enhancements are added into the visual aspect of the software… besides the new features.
This time though I will try the 64bits version so I will backup everything and see how it goes. It is supposed to be much faster, specially considering that it comes with ext4 files system by default.

Microsoft will make public the data structure and functionality from Outlook’s PST files. This move will allow developers to write / read… and understand how it works and make it possible, from now on, to exchange data between Outlook and other platforms and create their own applications without restrictions.
In order to facilitate interoperability and enable customers and vendors to access the data in .pst files on a variety of platforms, we will be releasing documentation for the .pst file format. This will allow developers to read, create, and interoperate with the data in .pst files in server and client scenarios using the programming language and platform of their choice. The technical documentation will detail how the data is stored, along with guidance for accessing that data from other software applications. It also will highlight the structure of the .pst file, provide details like how to navigate the folder hierarchy, and explain how to access the individual data objects and properties.
Hoy hace su debut Windows 7 aunque no tengo mucho que decir hasta probarlo. He visto varios puntos a favor y en contra pero siempre se hacen mediciones en equipos nuevos o con dudas. Veremos que pasa, sinceramente no me llama mucho la atención.