Punjab Government, Ncomputing sign MoU to provide virtual desktop kits: The Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that the Government of Punjab is working to make the province the hub of education and information technology. He was talking after signing of Memorandum of Understanding between the Punjab Government and Ncomputing at Chief Minister Secretariat.
Under this MoU, NComputing will provide three of the company’s X550 virtual desktop kits to be installed in each computer laboratory that being established in 4,286 secondary and higher secondary schools of the province. Each NComputing kit converts a standard desktop PC into five separate virtual desktops, thereby reducing the cost of establishing computer labs by 50 percent.

Oracle Unveils the First Database Machine for OLTP: The world’s first OLTP Database Machine was unveiled by Oracle Chief Executive Officer, Larry Ellison; and Sun Executive Vice President John Fowler. The Exadata Database Machine Version 2, made by Sun and Oracle, is the world’s fastest machine for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP).
Exadata Version 2 is available in four models: full rack (8 database servers and 14 storage servers), half-rack (4 database servers and 7 storage servers), quarter-rack (2 database servers and 3 storage servers) and a basic system (1 database server and 1 storage server).