Our company has been in need of robust open source business intelligence software that can fulfill our needs such as collaborating in real time on a variety of information via data visualization. We also are looking for an open source that has a easy to us reason we are choosing open source instead of traditional business intelligence is due to the fact that it can be highly customized and further plug-ins can be added that are cost effective. During our search process we came across three companies in particular that carry a nice product line of open source business intelligence products, these companies are Actuate, Jaspersoft and Pentaho. Out the three companies, Actuate was the only that stood out in terms of having an avid community of developers that help keep their open source software top of the line. Given this fact, we decided to try out Actuate BIRT and downloaded the trial version of their software. We are still in the evaluation phase of the software but find it very easy to use and straight forward. We have had no trouble generating reports and creating valuable data visualizations that we can use to collaborate and use for quick decision making. Overall, we are quite impressed but still need to try out the other two open source vendors in the market place before making a final decision.

For a short time the market appears a very interesting processor – Intel Dual Core Celeron E1400. The interesting thing in it, that is a real dual-core Conroe processor running on a strong rate of 2.00GHz. Intel still uses the old names and Pentium Celeron, which we believe have been inappropriate for the segmentation of their processors. Even if given the legacy of Pentium processors and Celeron, it is this legacy of the powerful but cumbersome Pentium 4 (Willamette, Northwood, Prescott) and their analogues with truncated Celeron cache and system bus. Heritage can only be of Pentium M (Banias and Dothan), processors that were developed in Israel and who saved Intel from breathing on their neck AMD. Perhaps few people know that the Pentium M is a direct successor to the Pentium III Tualatin, Pentium M with a few amendments to be transformed into Yonah (Core Duo, Core Solo) – ie the current dual-core processors. Banias, Dothan and Yonah are words of Jewish origin, which clearly shows the origin and the relationship between processors.
There should be a clear difference between a Pentium architecture NetBurst (Pentium 4, Pentium D and derived XEON processors and Celeron) and the Pentium, resulting from the Intel P6 (Pentium Pro, Pentium III Tualatin, later and modern Pentium M Core Duo, Solo, 2 Duo, Quad). NetBurst was branded by Intel as inefficient and expensive and therefore was removed from production. After these historical notes, let us focus on this overview of the Intel Dual Core Celeron E1400. The core processor is Conroe – 512, ie the cache of the processor is reduced to 512KV (typical for Celeron).
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