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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (42029)	4/20/2008 12:32:37 AM
From: blind-geezer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

I am calling oil to top below 130, so 10% more to go max !!!

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (42029)	4/20/2008 2:00:28 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 57684

Startup Pushes Virtual Labs As a Service cio.com

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (42029)	4/20/2008 4:28:41 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

Kickfire Launches With Backing From Accel, Greylock, and Mayfield silicontap.com Thursday, April 17, 2008 Kickfire, which is developing high performance, MySQL database appliances, launched the firm's products this week and disclosed backing from venture capital firms Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, and Mayfield. Details of the funding were not disclosed. Santa Clara-based Kickfire has created a high performance, data warehousing product based on the popular MySQL open source database. The firm released what it said were record breaking TPC-H benchmarks and a partnership with Sun Microsystems Monday. Kickfire's appliance is based on a hardware acceleration using a chip which parallel processes SQL queries. The firm said its product provides 10-100x faster performance than a traditional relational database.