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Submission + - ODF group drops ODF? (commandprompt.com)

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poet

on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @03:41PM

poet writes: "According to this article over at Computer World, the Open Document Foundation has dropped support for Open Document Format, in favor of the Compound Documents Format put out by the W3C?"

Submission + - PostgreSQL 8.3 Beta1 Released! (postgresql.org)

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poet

on Monday October 08, 2007 @09:48PM

poet writes: "The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today released the long-awaited first beta of version 8.3. Thanks to an unprecedented number of new patches, this version introduces more new and improved features than any previous release. Of course, more new features means that 8.3 needs more user testing than any previous version, so we're counting on you to download it and test it with development versions of your applications.

Among the features in the new version are, greatly improved performance consistency, through HOT, Load Distributed Checkpoint, JIT bgwriter, Asynchronous Commit, integrated TSearch2 full text search, SQL:XML syntax, logging to database-loadable CSV files, automated rebuilding of cached plans, ENUMs, UUIDs, arrays of complex types , GSSAPI and SSPI authentication support. Read more about this exciting new release from the folks over at PostgreSQL.Org."

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