{"id":2674,"date":"2009-04-30T13:59:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T18:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/04\/30\/numbers11\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T13:59:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T18:59:41","slug":"numbers11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/04\/30\/numbers11\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers, Volume 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"Cold<\/a><\/p>\n

You lookin’ at me? I don’t see any other boxes around here.<\/a><\/h2>\n

A vast collection of Robert De Niro’s film-related materials is now open to researchers and the public at the the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Center…. The collection, appraised at roughly $5 million<\/strong>, includes more than 1,300 boxes of papers, film, movie props and costumes<\/strong>. It chronicles the career of the actor, director and producer from the late 1960s through 2005.<\/p>\n

Pirates in Parliament<\/a><\/h2>\n

[A] new poll conducted by Swedish newspaper DN.se<\/a> predicts that the Pirate Party will get 5.1% of all votes in the upcoming EU elections<\/strong> this June – enough to guarantee a seat in the European Parliament. The poll further shows that the party is the second largest party among younger voters in the age group 18-30<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Get Out Your Slide Rule<\/a><\/h2>\n

Furthermore, a planned increase in costs of support for contracts signed between 2010 and 2015 will be capped, [SAP] has said. It promised no contract would go up by more than 3.1 per cent a year<\/strong>. The overall price of a support contact will remain at 22 per cent of the maintenance base<\/strong>, but this 22 per cent figure will also be capped until 2015<\/strong>. Support currently runs at 17 per cent of maintenance<\/strong> base for a “typical” user.<\/p>\n

The Longer the Name, The More You Pay<\/a><\/h2>\n

Pricing, per hour, for running IBM software in Amazon EC2, at the entry CPU level (cheapest), in the US:<\/p>\n