NextEngine's Next Breakthrough: "Points-to-Parts" Software for $2,495
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SolidWorks World 2007 -- Last year, NextEngine smashed price / performance barriers when it unveiled its $2,495 Desktop 3D Scanner technology on stage at SolidWorks World.  At one-tenth the cost of other systems, it rewrote the rules for 3D scanning hardware.
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Okay, non-interview stuff first. I've recently picked up several 'shortcuts' from O'Reilly and Addison-Weseley.  I love this format.  For about 10 bucks, you can get a PDF only copy of a 50-100 page "book".  The shortcuts (so far at least) have been very focused, which allows them to cover a reasonable topic in sufficient depth without creating a monstrous 600+ page tome.  The shortcuts I've looked at so far have been timely, useful, and a great value.  October marks the beginning of Apress' push into Ruby and Ruby on Rails.    Apress also has Practical OCaml coming out soon to help soothe your inner functional programmer.  Now, on to interview news!
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A smooth integration will not be a matter of simply swapping one set of software or hardware for another. It may hinge on changing deep-seated mind-sets.
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New product from Pegasystems lets customers apply predictive models to business processes without complex coding.
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'Niagara' UltraSparc CPU piques interest among new customers with trial program, open source support.
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Nearly eclipsed by Eclipse, Microsoft opens tool platform to all Pop along to Sourceforge and youâll find many different programmersâ editors, many of which have been abandoned long before theyâre ready for use. Thereâs not really any point developing an editor, when toolkits like Scite exist. The same is true of IDEs, when thereâs the extensible Eclipse IDE to use. As a result itâs been gaining more and more market- and mindshare with development tools vendors around the world.â¦
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The new Open Source Software Resource Centre will be funded with $1.2 million over three years and will try to promote open-source software by establishing a portal for exchanging information on the subject and initiating proof-of-concept projects.
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A new release of adCenter is expected in the next 2 months, with many of the new features resulting from testing and customer feedback collected through adLabs.
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A free beta version of the software will be available by mid-January.
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By Bruno Dieter Chan  THIS week I have some interesting software for you. We'll start off with the useful and work our way down to the could-be-useful.
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A software tools maker is staking its future on helping developers prepare for streamlined coding for Web services (define) as well as Avalon, the graphics display component in the works for Longhorn, Microsoft&#39;s next version of Windows.
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By WES SMALLING  Wes: Next big question iswho's gonna pay for the project  I heard a crazy idea the other day.
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A car that costs $2,500; CES 2008 wraps up; and geotagging photo Web sites.
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Did you know you can download SourceforgeEE for 15 users for free. You'll find it on Sourceforge.net and it comes in a VMWare appliance. That version will accommodate 50 users if you want to pay for more than 15 seats. From an enterprise point of view, the cost is quite reasonable.
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Hewlett-Packard hammered home its commitment to the Itanium 2 chips this week, announcing new mid- and high-end members of its Integrity family of servers with the Madison chip, along with new support for OpenVMS 8.2, Novell's version of Linux, bundled virtualization software and, for the first time, a pay-per-use policy for server-based Windows.ADVERTISEMENTReducing the Total Cost of OwnershipLearn how to reduce the total coast of ownership in enterprise data management in this case study.
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Compuware on Tuesday will announce tools providing fault simulation and security analysis for developers building applications on the Microsoft platform.ADVERTISEMENTReducing the Total Cost of OwnershipLearn how to reduce the total coast of ownership in enterprise data management in this case study.
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In photo land, a new gizmo extreme white balancing than the traditional white paper. David Becker's PMA coverage continues in Gadget Lab.