By Anna Valmero
INQUIRER.NET

MANILA, Philippines – Yahoo! Philippines launched September 30 the Yahoo! Open Strategy to rewire itself and open up its assets to third-party developers and help drive innovation and differentiation in terms of its products and services.

Yahoo! Open Strategy product management Cody Simms on the Yahoo! developer blog that the new initiative is “Yahoo!’s big bet to deliver open, industry-leading platforms that attract the most publishers and developers.”

Sau Sheong Chang, head of engineering of Yahoo! Southeast Asia explained during an interview with INQUIRER.net that the Y! Yahoo! Open Strategy “aims to marry the best of the Web with what Yahoo! has internally. This will provide a holistic and consolidated platform for developers to grow applications in the current Yahoo! backdrop.”

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By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net

SAN Francisco, California — Oracle announced its entry in the storage and database hardware business with Hewlett Packard (HP) as partner, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said here at Oracle Open World.

Oracle will enter the storage server and database server market in hopes of providing a technology solution to the growing and complex database and storage demand from enterprises.

Working with computer company HP, Oracle expects to rival products of existing storage and database server players, Ellison said.

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SAN FRANCISCO, California — Talking to attendees of the Oracle Open World here, Intel Corp. President and CEO Paul Ottelini challenged the technology industry to help the energy industry embrace technology that could help reduce the global “carbon footprint.”

The Carbon footprint measures the impact of human activities on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced. It is measured in units of carbon dioxide.

Ottelini said Intel and other industry leaders like Oracle are now driving various initiatives to reduce energy consumption in the manufacture and the development of their products, as well as in the running of their operations.

The Intel chief executive said Intel has recently been able to save $2 billion in electricity as it implemented initiatives to reduce energy consumption.

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Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net

SAN FRANCISCO, California – Amid the highly technical sessions and talks here at Oracle Open World, there are sessions, exhibits, and non-event related initiatives dedicated to promoting the global green movement.

Talking during the Oracle Open World opening day, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom said the city has been host to this major technology event for several years. Recently, both the city and Oracle have made strides to implement green initiatives.

Newsom stressed San Francisco is one of the cities that have the best recycling programs in the United States. The city currently recovers 69 percent of the materials it discards, with the goals of 75 percent landfill diversion by 2010 and zero waste by 2020.

He also pointed out that the power that lights Moscone Center, the venue of Oracle Open World, is a result of their solar energy program.

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By Anna Valmero
INQUIRER.net

THE recent launch of Intel’s multi-core Xeon 7400 server microprocessors (codenamed Dunnigton) has been dubbed to set the stage for virtualization 2.0.

Virtualization is touted to enable very low power and improved performance processing—the chips offer up to 50 percent processing improvement when compared to the previous 7300 series, according to Intel. Other performance records claimed by the chip are available from Intel’s Web site. (To view the presentation, click here.)

By 2010, virtual machines will hit 7.9 million units worldwide, up from 1.4 million units in 2005. This steep rise of the segment according to research firm International Data Corp. signals the need for more powerful chipsets to come after the 7400 series. And that will surely happen, suffice it is to say that we have enough time to harness the power of Dunnington chips.

So what are the benefits?

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