Wednesday, December 24, 2008

JobStreet.com Malaysia Career & Training Fair 2009

The 8th Malaysia Career & Training Fair (MCTF) to be organized by JobStreet.com is coming in January 2009. This event is freely open for public. The previous MCTF 2008 had successfully attracted participation from more than 116,000 job seekers and over hundred of exhibitors.

The event details are as follow:

Date: 16-18 January 2009
Time: 10am ~ 7pm
Venue: Mid Valley Exhibition Centre (KL)

Job seekers are advised to bring along their C.V., and some of the exhibitors might conduct on the spot interview with suitable candidates during the event.

The 11th Post Graduate Education Fair (PGEF) 2009 will also be held at the same time and same venue together with this MCTF '09.

Click here for more information and online registration of MCTF '09.

Click here to see the exhibitors' list in MCTF '09.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

The UNIX genealogy

The UNIX genealogy diagram below is released to the public domain and free for use for any purpose. It shows the relations between several UNIX systems.



UNIX is born in AT&T's Bell Laboratories. Its history began from 1969 when Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and others started working on a project with a PDP-7 minicomputer in their lab.

It was first written in Assembly Language, and was then rewritten in C Language in 1973. In 1975, UNIX version 6 branched out with the emergence of the first version of BSD, which was developed based on UNIX version 6 free source code.

In the 1980s, the two common branches of UNIX were BSD (from the University of California, Berkeley), and System V (from AT&T). Both were derived from the earlier UNIX version 7, but had diverged considerably.

The GNU Project, started in 1984 by Richard Stallman, had the goal of creating a "complete UNIX-compatible software system" made entirely of free software. This mission was eventually realised by Linus Torvalds, who has developed the Linux kernel in early 1990s.

Today, the BSD family has branched out to FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Mac OS, etc. On the other hand, the System V family has branched out to HP-UX, AIX, UnixWare, IRIX, etc. Meanwhile, Linux, which was derived from Minix (a UNIX-like system intended for academic use), has gained its popularity and rapidly growing in both the server and desktop markets.

Monday, December 22, 2008

Gartner Business Intelligence Summit to be held in The Hague, Netherlands

With the theme of "The BIg Discrepancy: How can we do better with BI?", the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit will be held in The Hague, Netherlands on the coming 20-22 January 2009.

The conference, consists of more than 80 conference sessions and exhibition with more than 25 leading BI technology and service providers, will focus on the following key Business Intelligence issues:

  • Key steps to making Business Intelligence strategic
  • Creating a BI and performance management strategy to widen the use of BI
  • The evolving role of corporate performance management
  • Role, structure and organization of the BI Competency Center
  • Identifying the right metrics to measure performance
  • The Data Warehouse in a time of data explosion
  • New delivery models: Open Source and BI "as a service"
  • The impact of SOA on BI
  • Trends in Enterprise Information Management (EIM) and Master Data Management
  • Difficult choices in the Data Quality tools market
  • Portal strategies for BI integration
  • Business Activity Monitoring and the rise of process-driven BI
  • Determining the "return on BI"
  • Performance management and compliance
  • BI market trends and the increasing impact of the mega-vendors
  • Best practices in budgeting, planning & forecasting
Some key benefits to attend this Summit are:
  • Understanding the business forces that will affect IT leaders of BIIM initiatives
  • Insight into the future scenarios facing BI leaders
  • Techniques in making the right innovation choices at the right time
  • Improved decision-making responsibilities for BI investment
  • Evaluation of the market dynamics when making investment decisions
  • Approaches for melding emerging technologies with existing tools and infrastructure
  • Development of ROI and cost allocation models that impact the business case
  • Linking of CPM to strategic planning, budgets and operational activities to aid strategy execution
  • Improved decision-making through BI initiatives and techniques
Click here for more information about the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit and its online registration.

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