Kuala Lumpur, 19 December2007- In recent years, Malaysia has grown to earn its place on the world map as an emerging information technology (IT) hotspot in the region, ranking in AT Kearney’s recent Global Services Location Index 2007 as the world’s third most popular IT outsourcing hub.
The expansion of the country’s IT industry is largely due to a number of factors including the increased presence of foreign companies in Malaysia and the local government’s vision to elevate Malaysia as an IT hub, producing quality resource and generating intellectual property assets …

The internet of today is cluttered with myriad ways to create and manage a website. With sites becoming larger and more complicated, it became necessary to move beyond simple html and into more complicated languages for creating attractive and functional websites. MySQL is a database that helps in this regard.
MySQL is an open source database system which uses Structured Query Language (SQL) to operate. Databases are extremely common because they allow for a central collection of data, be it posts to a blog, a database of members to a forum, …

In a surprise announcement, MySQL reveals that it has been acquired by Sun. This acquisition appears to be part of a broader strategy by Sun to displace the LAMP stack with its own Solaris and Java technologies.
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Databases have become a key ingredient to hosting many websites today. The complexity and features of many website applications have included the need for website databases. It is not necessary for these databases to be stored on your own computer hard drive. The process is simplified by webhosting packages maintaining databases at the server level. This serves to speed up interaction between the databases and the users. Setting up these databases appears to be confusing for some users.
There has been a recent invasion of participants in the blog scene and …

Cpanel is web-based control panel complete with all the features that enables you to manage your web hosting space and domain name through the web interface. What cpanel does is to give you more control, manage and access your web site. With cpanel you can manage all aspects of email files, FTP, CGI scripts and web site statistics. Cpanel webhosting uses state of the art webhosting control panel system and has a number of features which include user-friendly web based interface (GUI) aside from those mentioned above. The control panel …

Confusion often arises while choosing a web-hosting platform, as which one is the best one and which one is the better one between Linux & Window hosting. The million-dollar question is what application are you looking to use for your hosting? Consider the tools and scripting languages you plan to use, if you use PHP, Perl or MySQL, Linux is the way forward. If apps are Microsoft-specific, then Windows is what you need.
Well in most of the cases, the general inclination generally moves towards the Linux web hosting platform and …

Instead of using Microsoft Windows-based technology for operating a website, many people rely on Linux hosting as a really good alternative. As most of you probably know by now, the code that makes Linux run is publicly available, which means that it is an open-source operating system. This is why people all over the world have the possibility to make the system better and better each day! Windows is indeed more easy to operate than Linux, but the chances of failure that Linux provides are very much smaller than for …

Linux merupakan OS yang mempunyai perisian aplikasi yang agak banyak. Aplikasi produktiviti seperti Applixware dan StarOffice serta yang terbaru OpenOffice telah digunakan dengan meluas dibawah platform Linux.Aplikasi windows juga dapat dilarikan pada sistem Linux dengan mengggunakan emulator seperti Dosemu ataupun yang terbaru menggunakan WINE. Pakej perisian seperti ini bukan sahaja berkuasa malah tidak mahal dan ada pula boleh didapati secara percuma.
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Perisian ini adalah sama sahaja seperti MS. Office. Antara perisian yang termasuk …