According to this MacroMedia will start giving away a copy of Flex Server and Flex Builder to noncommercial users.
I took a look at Flex when it came out, and it enables you to create some pretty slick interfaces. Maybe this will speed it’s adoption, time will show.
Sony has released a home entertainment server with 1TB of space and 7 tuners. Expensive at 5,000USD, but man would it be cool. 😉 CNet has more details here.
Lately I’ve been wondering what happened to OODBs. There is a whole debata going, especially around EJB3 about how to do Object-Relational mappings the best way. Why would be like to do it at all? Wouldn’t it be excellent if our databases just stored our objects? Utopia I guess. 🙂 Neward has some points on why OODBs are not used here.