Archive for February 14, 2018

OpenText Acquires Hightail

Posted in Commentary with tags on February 14, 2018 by itnerd

OpenText, a leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced that it has acquired Hightail, Inc. formerly known as YouSendIt, a leading cloud service for file sharing and creative collaboration with approximately 5.5 million customers globally spanning enterprise accounts, paid subscribers, and individual consumers.

This acquisition expands OpenText’s strength in the content collaboration market through Hightail’s existing user-base of marketing, advertising and creative professionals.

Hightail is not expected to contribute significant revenue to OpenText’s results for the fiscal third quarter ending March 31, 2018.

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2ndQuadrant Announces Release Of OmniDB 2.5

Posted in Commentary with tags on February 14, 2018 by itnerd

2ndQuadrant, the Gold Standard for PostgreSQL products and services, announces the release of OmniDB 2.5, with support for PostgreSQL and Oracle databases.

OmniDB is an interactive and powerful, yet lightweight, browser-based tool that simplifies database management. OmniDB includes a smart SQL editor that runs smoothly in any browser on any operating system and the interface includes all the necessary features to add, edit, and manage user data in a unified workspace. Through real-time monitoring, users are able to track the status of their database with charts and grids for of the major aspects, such as backends, bloat, sizes, etc.

OmniDB is highly performant and allows users to manage multiple databases in a unified workspace with a user-friendly and fast-performing interface and this release introduces basic support for Oracle databases. Users can connect and interact with Oracle databases in the same way the tool currently works with PostgreSQL databases.

The OmniDB project was initiated by 2ndQuadrant support engineers and is fully backed by 2ndQuadrant’s world-renowned 24/7 Production Support services.

For a complete list of updates in the latest release, check the OmniDB change tracker here.

OmniDB 2.5 is available for download here.

 

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A Follow Up To The Linksys WRT32X Firmware Issue

Posted in Commentary with tags on February 14, 2018 by itnerd

One of the things that I promised to do when Linksys released the firmware to fix the issues that popped up late last year. Now I did test a beta version firmware. But now there’s a released version. It is version 1.0.180118.3 and it is available here. Release notes are available here. If you read the release notes, there is one note that you may want to pay attention to:

Known issue: the Google/OpenDNS/Custom DNS server functionality may not work
consistently. This will be resolved in a subsequent release.

In other words, if you’re like me and you don’t use your ISP’s DNS server settings. And instead you choose to use your own settings, you may have an issue. That’s a bit of a downer. But fortunately for Linksys, that’s where the bad news ends. I can’t find anything wrong with that. Plus the speed increases that I noted in the beta are still there. Thus if Linksys fixes the custom DNS issue, which if they’re reading this I’d really like that fixed, then this firmware would be perfect.

In short, when that firmware appears, I will consider this issue fully closed. But as it stands now, if you have a WRT32X router from Linksys, you should update your firmware now.

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