Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Apr 21 13:03:53 CDT 2014
News ways to create a business, run a business and support a business. Even giant GE is trying to get a piece of the new booming startup market by refurbishing an old warehouse, next to a university, setting it up was all the appropriate power and internet connectivity, adding easy access to seed funds and encouraging local entrepreneurs to setup shop. http://www.techrepublic.com/article/ges-firstbuild-can-a-big-company-harness-startup-mojo-on-the-backs-of-upstart-entrepreneurs/#ftag=RSS56d97e7 Companies try and find the sweet spot, that gets the best results from their workers and keeps them working at their facility. Will this company's successful experiment be duplicated? http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/18/3428463/treehouse-four-day-workweek So what is the hot new languages and implementations of core software. This is all very exciting. Ten relatively new programming languages have found their niche are continuing to grow: http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/146094/not-the-usual-suspects-10-plucky-programming-languages-the-rise-240677 As data volumes continue to grow, the go to software Hadoop, that is the de facto infrastructure technology for big data, now has a number of Startup are adding enhancements...and this is not even counting Microsoft/Hortonworks partnership which has MSs own add-on allowing support for its own enterprise product line. It seems the key to these Hadoop enhancement products is their ability to combine the ease of use of SQL/drag and drop/auto query building and the flexibility and scaling of NoSQL. Which products will emerge as the new industry standards is hard to say as the competition and diversity is fierce. http://www.cio.com/article/751572/10_Hot_Hadoop_Startups_to_Watch_ ...and... http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/146238/How-the-9-Leading-Commercial-Hadoop-Distributions-Stack-Up#slide1 IMHO, I think I will hardly recognize the computer market in ten years, it will have changed so much. Jim