Windows se7en

Windows 7 is a version of Microsoft Windows, a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablet PCs, and media center PCs. Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and reached general retail availability on October 22, 2009, less than three years after the release of its predecessor, Windows Vista. Windows 7's server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 R2, was released at the same time. Windows 7 will be succeeded by Windows 8, which has no release date as of yet.

Unlike its predecessor, which introduced a large number of new features, Windows 7 was intended to be a more focused, incremental upgrade to the Windows line, with the goal of being compatible with applications and hardware with which Windows Vista is already compatible. Presentations given by Microsoft in 2008 focused on multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar, referred to as the Superbar, a home networking system called HomeGroup, and performance improvements. Some applications that have been included with prior releases of Microsoft Windows, including Windows Calendar, Windows Mail, Windows Movie Maker, and Windows Photo Gallery, are not included in Windows 7; most are instead offered separately at no charge as part of the Windows Live Essentials suite.

WUF Networks

WUF Networks, Inc. developed solutions that simplified the control and access of digital content — music, photos,and video — among networked devices, including consumer electronics, mobile devices and personal computers.
The company was probably the first to introduce the concept of Personal Networks - the freedom to access all of your digital content wherever and whenever. WUF Networks software solution allowed digital content to follow its owner regardless of where the content is originally stored. The software solution automatically aggregated and publicized the digital content across a consumers’ Personal Network including their home PC, media center or mobile phone. Because the content was streamed, WUF's solution avoided copyright and IP concerns over the copying of music and video.
With the advent of Apple's iPod, there was a race to enable mobile phones - and all hand held/portable devices - with the ability to access music (and subsequently video) over the network in a legal manner. The company was founded by Turochas "T" Fuad and Francois Dumas and was acquired by Yahoo in late 2004.

Software Elgg

Elgg is a white label, open source social networking platform. It offers blog, networking, community, collecting of news using feeds aggregation and file sharing features. Everything can be shared among users with access controls and everything can be cataloged by tags as well.

Elgg is licensed under the GPL, and runs on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) platform. It can be setup to integrate with MediaWiki, Vanilla (forum) and Drupal, as well as use plug-ins to provide a calendar, a wiki and more. Details can be found on the main project website. Elgg was originally started by Ben Werdmuller and David Tosh, who subsequently founded Curverider. It has been under development

Super Computer

supercomputer built by Silicon Graphics for NASA. The supercomputer was installed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility in 2004.

According to the TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers, it entered the list in November 2004 at position 2,^[1] running at 51.87 teraflops, or 51.87 trillion floating point calculations per second. By June 2007 it had dropped to position 13, and by June of 2008 was at position 25^[2]. It is composed of twenty SGI Altix 3000 nodes running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9^[3] each of which have 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors bringing the total number of processors to 10,240. It has 20 terabytes of RAM, 440 terabytes of storage, and 10 petabytes of archive storage.^[4] It was named in honor of the crew STS-107, who were killed in the Columbia disaster.

The SGI Altix platform was selected due to a positive experience with Kalpana, a single Altix 512-CPU system operated by NASA Ames which was integrated into the Columbia supercomputer system.

The computers are connected together with a Voltaire InfiniBand ISR 9288 288 port switch with transfer speeds of up to 10 gigabits (or 1250 megabytes) per second, 10 gigabit Ethernet and multiple 1 gigabit Ethernet nodes.

Software House

Types of software houses

There are a number of different types of software houses:
1. Large and well-known companies such as Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, HP, Adobe Systems, Apple Inc. and Red Hat 2. Companies producing specialized Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, such as Panorama, Hyperion, Siebel Systems
3. Companies producing software components, such as Developer Express, Dundas, ComponentOne
4. Application Service Providers, such as SalesForce
5. Companies focused on delivering bespoke software solutions for vertical industries or particular geographical regions
All of these may be categorized in one or many of the following [1]:
1. in-house - the target is to deliver software for internal purposes (for the other departments)
2. contractual - when the software house is contracted to deliver some particular software from outside (software

outsourcing)
3. product development - when it produces ready to use, packaged software; Commercial off-the-shelf

Black Duck Software

Black Duck Software pioneered the automation of mixed-origin software component reuse management. The company’s products and services allow organizations to analyze the composition of software source code and binary files, search for reusable code, manage open source and third-party code approval, honor the legal obligations associated with mixed-origin code, and monitor related security vulnerabilities. Black Duck is considered a technology industry leader and often cited in media articles about open source.

Computerize Maintenance System

Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)

is also known as Enterprise Asset Management.
A CMMS software package maintains a computer database of information about an organization’s maintenance operations. This information is intended to help maintenance workers do their jobs more effectively (for example, determining which storerooms contain the spare parts they need) and to help management make informed decisions (for example, calculating the cost of maintenance for each piece of equipment used by the organization, possibly leading to better allocation of resources). The information may also be useful when dealing with third parties; if, for example, an organization is involved in a liability case, the data in a CMMS database can serve as evidence that proper safety maintenance has been performed.