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Iloilo City — A curriculum which incorporates Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is now available for schools offering Computer Science (CS), Information Technology (IT), and Information Management (IM) major concentrations. At the national convention of the Philippine Society of IT Educators (PSITE) in this city, the Philippine Open Source Initiative (POSITIVE) launched the curricula for four courses and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PSITE involving training and orientation on the curricula. The MoU signing ceremony was formalized between PSITE National President Alex Ybasco and POSITIVE Project Lead Joseph Paul Sianghio, and witnessed by Juliana Hinterberger, Country Portfolio Manager of Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ, or German Technical Cooperation) and Commissioner Emmanuel Lallana of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT). Members of the PSITE Board of Trustees also stood as witnesses.

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The Windows Vista product lineup consists of six versions, two for businesses, three for consumers, and one for emerging markets: Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Starter. The number of offerings is the same as the number of offerings currently available for Windows® XP. More important, the lineup is designed to deliver clear value to a broad range of customers, each product tailored to meet specific needs of various segments of customers — home PC users, small and medium-sized businesses and the largest enterprises — and is aimed at bringing 64-bit, Media Center and Tablet PC functionality into the mainstream.

     * Windows Vista Business.
    * Windows Vista Enterprise
    * Windows Vista Home Basic. 
    * Windows Vista Home Premium.
    * Windows Vista Ultimate.

All new versions are available for either 32-bit or 64-bit systems, depending on the needs of the customer. Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate and Business will be available as a full-packaged product at retail and on new PCs. Windows Vista Enterprise will be offered only to business customers participating in Microsoft’s Software Assurance program.

Microsoft also will offer Windows Vista Starter in emerging markets. Windows Vista Starter is designed to empower families and entry-level PC users in these markets to experience the world of social and educational benefits that personal computer technology and the Internet makes possible. A 32-bit operating system designed specifically for lower-cost computers, Windows Vista Starter enables popular beginner PC activities and provides an easy-to-use and more affordable entry point to the Windows Vista family of products.

Not yet sure if Windows Vista Starter will be offered here in the Philippines though.

All versions of Windows Vista are scheduled to be broadly available in the second half of 2006.

News Source: Microsoft

HCC Delivers! posted a  “45 Pesos Lang… Malapit Na!” teaser.

Stay tuned for more updates in the coming days.

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These documents provide a detailed discussion describing how the Enterprise Application Services group in Microsoft IT used the new features in SQL Server 2005 to dramatically increase the availability of SAP R/3 at Microsoft.

Grab a copy of the docs:
SAPandSQL2005TWP.doc (2.0 MB)
SAPandSQL2005TWP.ppt (3.2 MB)

The Philippine SQL Server Users Group (PHISSUG) is now the official Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Chapter for the Philippines.

PASS is the definitive, global community for SQL Server professionals. It is the first independent, user-run, not-for-profit association committed to providing SQL Server professionals around the world with the resources and knowledge necessary to achieve unparalleled business results.

Co-founded by Microsoft, and Computer Associates, supported by our Charter Vendors, PASS’ mission is to provide our members with a forum for education, facilitate networking, and influence the direction of SQL Server and related products and services.

PHISSUG is also a member organization of Culminis for Asia Pacific.

Culminis is an international not-for- profit organization representing the culmination of ideas, aspirations, and needs of IT Professionals. By building a partnership between IT Pros and information technology solution providers, Culminis strives to improve the skills, abilities and knowledge of our members along with the technologies they depend on.

PHISSUG is also a Microsoft Nodes for Excellence, Research and Development Society (MSNERDS) Partner Organization.

PHISSUG continues to provide its members with more benefits in terms of access to training and educational materials, software access, networking and forums that comes with the affiliation with PASS, Culminis and MSNERDS.

The Philippine SQL Server Users Group (PHISSUG) is a non-profit Filipino association of SQL Server enthusiasts with the goal of providing the Filipino community quality professionals in the field of databases.

The DigitalFilipino.com Club will be having its 18th networking event this February 24, Friday, 4:00 to 7:00 pm. The venue shall be at Conference Room A, Innove Communications, 111 Valero St., Salcedo Village, Makati City.Our sincerest thanks to our corporate member, Innove Communications, for hosting our small get together.This gathering is exclusive for DigitalFilipino.com Club members only and are requested to confirm attendance for food count purposes. (Note that an eyeball shall be arranged in Cebu, Davao, and Cagayan De Oro this March.)Agenda shall be as follows:

3:30 - 4:00 Registration

4:00 - 4:10

Introduction by each club member

4:10 - 4:30

Club updates

Internet Forensics Findings Sharing (club members who have findings to share are requested to email me their powerpoint files ahead)

4:30 - 5:00

Mobile Surfing and Mobile Payments (by Harvey Libarnes, Innove Communications)

5:00 - 6:30

eBay Trading Best Practices (by Randy Manaloto, MyUSMailbox.com)

• Introduction to eBay
• Buying in eBay
• Finding-and Getting-Bargains, Getting a Good Deal
• Becoming a Power Buyer
• Selling Stuff on eBay
• Building a Competitive Auction Offering
• From hobby to business in eBay - Power seller
• Specialty selling
• Cool tools for sellers
• Connecting with eBayers

DigitalFilipino.com Club member Randy Manaloto is an eBay Trading Assistant. Members are encouraged to bring their laptop for hands-on practices purposes.

6:30 - onwards

Networking among members

Interested non-members are requested to sign up as a member prior to February 24 and confirm attendance for food count purposes. There are three types of membership:

1. Individual
2. SME
3. Corporate

We hope you can join. Thank you.