Breakfast Links 27.10.2008

* Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009

Gartner analysts presented the top 10 strategic technologies for 2009 and the next three years on the Symposium/ITxpo last week. Beside Virtualization and Cloud Computing they also identified Web-Oriented Architectures and with it EnterpriseMashups as growing technologies. After mashups for the web were growing and industries offered a lot of tools to make that happen (they aimed to end-consumers), EnterpriseMashups are going to offer enterprise-class style mashups for the enterprise to use. But who am I still missing? Where is SOA in this picture?

* Grant Ingersoll and Charlotte JUG on Search & Analysis

Grant Ingersoll (Lucene) held a presentation at the Charlotte JUG on Text Analysis and Search with Java-based Open Source Tools, you can find the presentation slide here.

* An Overview of Semantic Technologies at Dow Jones

A brief overview on how semantic technologies are used inside Dow Jones and their customers.

Breakfast Links 08.09.2008

OpenSolaris community launched live-cd with Hadoop Cluster
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/livehadoop/Downloads/

Article about Text Processing performance
http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/09/06/text-processing-why-servers-choke/ (Beyond Search)
Response from Grant Ingersoll: http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/09/07/text-processing-why-servers-choke-beyond-search/

New Google Patent: Personalized Searching
http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/09/07/personalized-network-searching/