Adrian Bridgwater

Mauritius & SW Indian Ocean on Ulitzer Mauritius may soon emerge as the next ecologically aware data center of choice for companies from the United States to Australia, due to its progressive approach to technological investment and overall national stability. Using an innovative Sea Water Air Conditioning (SWAC) system pumping cool jets of ocean water from nearly 2000 meters down, this Indian Ocean island nation offers appealing corporate taxation and investment opportunities and boasts geo-political stability making it an attractive option for disaster recovery and business continuity planning. Mauritius is building a 102 hectare eco-park drawing in sea water as an extremely sustainable natural resource to target the main cost issue in all modern data centres, namely ... (more)

Nokia’s Qt and the Open Road to Code

With the pending acquisition of Sun by Oracle and speculation over whether a new stream of monetization is about to tarnish and dishonor the good name of open source, industry eyes are watching the open code zone more keenly than ever to try and gauge whether a new playing field is about to surface. Given the burgeoning acceptance of open technologies at the enterprise level, many segment... (more)

Sun’s JavaOne 2009: Business As Usual

In the wake of Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, many of us questioned whether we would actually see the company's annual JavaOne developer conference and exhibition take place. Industry commentators and analysts have been postulating over possible the emergence of a new and more commercially driven iteration of the Java programming language and platform. Initial signs of this beco... (more)

Qt Software Opens Its Source Code Repositories

Qt Software has completed its plans to release the Qt source code repositories to the developer community. This news opens the door to software engineers who want to help guide and shape the future development of Qt with code contributions, translations, examples, and other offerings. Qt is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit available on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows and is at the center of ... (more)

Will Adobe's 'Strobe' Light up Custom Media Player Development?

Being a big fan of streaming media, I have quite a selection on my desktop from RealPlayer, to Windows Media, to YouTube favourites, to Adobe's quite interesting Media Player and even Miro. I would have Hulu too if it supported content streaming outside t... ... (more)