What is Mainframe?

Up till now we’ve looked solely at distributed server technology to host business applications. The is another type used within larger organisations and financial institutions, Mainframe technology. What’s the difference between distributed Server technology...

Why Learn Java?

A quick look at some of the advantages of learning Java for someone looking to get into programming: Syntactically (the way Java is written) it’s is similar to a lot of programming...

What is a server platform?

In previous posts such as Linux vs Unix and Types of computer architecture (part 1) we’ve looked at operating systems and types of computer architecture. If you haven’t read these previous posts you may want to....

What is a Relational Database?

In the Types of Database post we looked at different types of databases. This post looks at the most common type of database, the relational database. The concept of the relational database was created...

Types of Database

We looked at different data stores in the Types of Data Store post. Different data stores are suited to different use cases. This post focuses on one type of data store called a database. A database...