Tuesday, April 01, 2003

Tool Automatically Converts SQL Queries http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,990210,00.asp Doesn't this sound like an April Fool's article? If they said they do pl/sql -> tsql, I would assume it was a joke. It looks like it just handles ANSI-SQL incompatibilities, but that's still hugely useful. I should write vembu and see if they would consider donating to open source projects. 4:47:38 PM      comment []  trackback []

Java (IKVM) & Mono http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id170 In this OS/News interview, Miguel mentions that the IKVM project (a Java Bytecode->CIL translator) can be used to run the Eclipse IDE. I'm impressed. I knew there had to be a way to make mono a bigger lawsuit magnet. :-) 4:47:38 PM      comment []  trackback []

Red Hat 9 & bitTorrent I'm downloading Red Hat 9 via BitTorrent. It's not as fast as I've seen before, (16-33K/s, with 32K uploaded), but I expect it to get better... Slashdot has an article about how much sense this makes, and that should mean a lot of repeaters out there. I'm glad people are starting to realize how cool this is. In another year or two I predict we'll skip the ISO nonsense and just start trading User Mode Linux VM's :-) 4:47:35 PM      comment []  trackback []