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Human beings always find a way to transform what’s not so cute in something beautiful, even when computer hardware is the subject. Not that Ethernet cables, switches , and other stuff on which the Internet is spreading are ugly, but no one would compare these with Van Gogh’s paintings. However, some persevering people saw an opportunity to release the artistic side of the machine.

It’s the case of Chris Harrison, student at Carnegie Mellon University, who had fun building graphical representations of usually intangible phenomenons. He has produced a map of interconnections between Wikipedia’s categories, a visualization of the bible, a graph showing global internet trends, and a world map of city-to-city internet connexions.

In this last case, Harrison used datas from the DIMES project in order to release a cute graphical representation on which we can see interconnections between cities of the world by router configurations (note that the internet still seem to be a Western thing) :

On the other side, Pingdom magazine regrouped some photographs of network cables arrangements made by techies with an artistic side :

At iWeb, we are not really cable artists, but we’re still organized…

Who said the web hosting industry was just rational and mathematical ?

It seems that talking about iWeb in the medias is highly fashionable these days. It has probably something to do with the growth the company experienced in 2007 which place it in good position as for the small and middle size businesses from Québec. This time, it’s in the winter edition of PME Magazine. The magazine puts iWeb in good position in its top 25 of public companies :
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Affected clients are those backuped on Winter.

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Update: Installation was longer then expected and will be completed tomorrow.

Sun Microsystems, a provider of network computing infrastructure solutions, has just announced the acquisition of MySQL AB, the company behind the popular open source database system MySQL, for about 1 billion dollars (800 million cash, and 200 million in options).

The wedding between these two players in the open source world is a “perfect match” says Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s CEO : “Today’s acquisition reaffirms Sun’s position at the center of the global Web economy. Supporting our overall growth plan, acquiring MySQL amplifies our investments in the technologies demanded by those driving extreme growth and efficiency, from Internet media titans to the world’s largest traditional enterprises”, he explains.

If MySQL is an important part of the “LAMP” (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) power foursome which is behind most open source online application software, it also powers many large applications such as Facebook, Baidu, and Google. There are other systems like PostgreSQL which is gaining in popularity, but the competition comes mostly from SQL Server by Microsoft (a proprietary software), and from Oracle, generally used for more complex systems.

What does all this mean for iWeb and its customers? Not much for now, but we will follow this new giant’s development with great interest.