This news is not a new(s) for us since the two companies are working together for 10 years already, thus many people expect the same outcome just today. Last June 23, Oracle announced their acquisition of GoldenGates but with no disclosed money/financial figure. GoldenGate Software is a private company providing real-time data integration and high availability solutions that empower IT organizations to deliver continuous access to real-time information. Oracle company is expected to close the deal later this year.

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To allow data to move between heterogeneous systems in real-time without any downtime, is what Oracle claimed to be their goal on this action they made. So far, Lots of GoldenGates products are already been integrated with Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and other Oracle Applications, thus, implementing with these changes are not a bottleneck to the organization.

And speaking of middleware --- Earlier this month, Oracle announced their latest version of middleware, Fusion Middleware 11g.

It was last week when Microsoft announced that they will offer a "Free" lightweight online version of Microsoft 2010, which includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote. Since then, I started to read reviews and press releases of this move from Microsoft and started to draft a post regarding this big change that the company does. But what made me changed my mind to post that said draft is because of Michael Hickins's report on the Hidden cost of Microsoft's Free online office suite.


[Microsoft Office 2010 Logo and its Applications new logos]

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Just a quote from his post, "But wait – there’s more! A Microsoft spokesperson told me that customers will need to buy a SharePoint server, which ranges from $4,400 plus CALs or $41,000, all CALs included if they want to share documents using the online version of Office 2010"
I bet its really clear that there is always a hidden agenda on that Free offerings. And as usual, at the end of the day, business is business.

At first, i enjoyed comparing these two online applications; namely Microsoft office live workspace and Google Docs, but at the end i would prefer to use Google docs than any other, most especially when i used it to convert office 2007 files into 2003. The two web versions of applications, have offer lots of advantages, doing some documents online anytime and anywhere but do Microsoft risks its sells of Office Applications (as we know, Office is the company's big cash drawer) and goes with online versions?


[Google Apps VS Office Live Workspace]

Office 210: The Changes

And now, as what i am always looking forward, is the idea and inquiry what could be the changes that Microsoft can offer rather than the online version thingy?


[2007 VS 2010: Ribbon Changes]

First of all, is the revision of the Microsoft Office 2007 trade mark, the Ribbon. In the offline version, Microsoft designed the Ribbon enclosed with a circular form on which at first i thought it was just another nonfunctional design until such time i learned that it is somewhat like a functional button having there the sub menus; New, Open, Save and others.
Another offering is the photo editing tools, which can now be accessed inside the Ribbon. You just need to open a picture file, then a format tab will show and you can now do some photo enhancement.


[Office 2007: Sub Menus under the Ribbon ]

And another ribbon inclusion program (which is excluded last 2007 version) is the Outlook 2010. It do now have full marked ribbon and is offering the same overall interface except its new feature Quick Steps. Excel and Word have no lots of new features on them not like outlook and of course the PowerPoint which give a video features in it.



Just a note, to access the lightweight version of office 2010, you all need a Windows Live ID (formerly hotmail account). But not so sure if you can have a total access on that package since Microsoft has not released any news about it although they have appended the word "free".


Photo Credit: BBC News

Does Bing surpasses Google? Coz it does with Yahoo!



Many reviews flash the net world which started on the launching day of Bing, Microsoft's revised search engine site, until this day. Some says Google still remain on top and some, Bing works the best.

But for my point of view both have the same features in the some way that the only difference is their respective presentation of the site.

Let set for example, the search for images. In Google, images are displayed in an ordered manner with label and source site below them while in Bing, images also are displayed well with no labels on them, but if you try to mouse over those images, you will see then the snapshot of these images with the file name, source site and others.


Image above differentiates more how the two search sites display their images results

In addition, Bing offers this kind of

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filtering or sorting the display according to size, layout, color, style and people. And so with Google images, you can let Google shows those images you want "by type or size" or "by type and size" and with their corresponding colors.


Bing Filter Feature


Google Filter/Sort Feature

Other thing is, the Homepage display of each of these sites. In Bing, they usually changing the background image and obviously, promoting some area or location in the US. While in Google, as we used to it, they do some art with their name in the homepage that corresponds to the celebration or any significant event on that specific day.


Bing Vs Google Homepage Displays (i admit, Bing is cool!)

These observation are just few of the many reviews we can encounter in the web. And for sure, as a customer or user, we need to know what this specific site offers indifferently from its competitor, we need to know what are its new features that the other site doesn't have and most importantly, we need the data more accurately and sharp.

To view some of Bing and Google's trademark, let us see these reality.

With Google, bloggers are happy not just because their blogsites have the big possibility to be included in Google's SRP but because they earn from it with the help of Google. But the point is, Google is blogger friendly, they usually display sites from different blogs on which Bing doesn't even know about it.


Bing displays my blogsite at top 10 while Google displays it at top 4

On the other hand, Bing offers less advertisement which is very good for some ordinary users/people who found them very annoying.

If you are a fan of "search engine site battle", you may find this site very interesting, i usually uses this site everytime i do some comparative search, this site is called bing vs. google, its like another search engine site but the funny part, it will display search results in the page which is divided into two parts , the other one from Bing and Google in the other part.


Bing Vs Google search site

Try it and tell me, Does Bing surpasses Google? or Google rocks!

Global Gaming Factory (GGF) has paid 60m Kronor (£4.7m) to take over The Pirate Bay site. GGF's Hans Pandeya told BBC that they are going to do this attractive approach to beat illegal fire-sharing. And thus, they are willing to pay file-sharers by legally sharing content with others.



With this, all users who always used to download files freely will change their point of view of downloading

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since TPB will now be asking payment for every file download which is legally uploaded. Users can now then join some group of seeders who began seeding the specified file.

A seeder is someone who shares a file with others through peer-to-peer technology like the BitTorrent protocol used by files indexed on The Pirate Bay.

But what is the risk? Will, as we all know, internet users always want a free oriented services, meaning, there is a possibility that TPB will only have less number of customers and their investment will just go to waste...my thoughts!

Idea Credits: PCWorld