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A brief summary

A brief summaryCompare with CFOIn many parts of the world, the CFO must be a chartered/certified accountant. In the US, this is now also essentially the case, due to SOx, and SOx is there as a result of accounting scandals.IT continues to disregard formal qualifications and licencing. Maybe the CIO...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Databases, IBM AIX, SOx, shareholder, AIX 5.3, Schwartz, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

Performance Impact of Upgrading a Data Warehouse Application From AIX 5.2 to AIX 5.3 With SMT

Many customers are running a data warehouse DSS application on IBM pSeries servers under AIX 5.2 and are investigating the possible benefits of an upgrade to AIX 5.3. Other customers are deploying new DSSs, but have to utilize AIX 5.2 as this is the latest supported release by their ISVs....

Tags: Data Warehouse, Performance, IBM AIX, AIX 5.3, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2005-04-15

Additional Resources

Looking beyond Windows 7 and Office; Pondering the alternatives

No reason to look beyond Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office, its a complete solution out of the box for every business need. Pondering the alternatives will take all of 5 seconds before realizing the alternatives won't live up to what Microsoft has to offer.Preceding message brought to you...

Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Loverock Davidson

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

VShell Server 3.5.4 (Windows)

VShell is a secure access server for Windows (x64)/Vista/XP/2000/2003, Red Hat, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Mac OS X, AIX, and FreeBSD, supporting the Secure Shell protocol (SSH2). VShell can be used for secure file transfer, system administration, and network access. VShell supports the Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol SFTP and the...

Tags: SSH, FTPS, Microsoft Windows, VanDyke Software, VShell, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-10

McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCs

McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCsWouldn't it be best to inform peopleIf they have zombie PC's in their homes? I mean, it isn't like the ISP's couldn't see that "Hey, this data is shooting to a known zombie PC site.... let's inform the person who uses this...

Tags: Zombie PC, McAfee Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

ActivePython 3.0.1.1 (Mac)

ActivePython is the complete, ready-to-install Python distribution for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. It includes Python core, zlib and bzip2 for data compression, SQLite (2.5-only) and Berkeley DB bindings bsddb, Tix GUI widgets for Tkinter, ctypes (2.5-only, on some platforms) for low-level library access, PyWin32 (Windows-only):...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Python, ActiveState Tool Corp., ActivePython, Microsoft Windows, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development

Software downloads 2009-05-04

Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interested

Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interestedI hope IBM know what they're doingIf they play chicken with Sun to get a bargain on the yummy pieces, they still risk throwing Java into years of uncertainty and customer defection. And that'll hurt part of IBMs business...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Financial accounting, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, stock

Discussion threads 2009-04-16

IT failure contributes to UK bank collapse

IT failure contributes to UK bank collapseThat's the price for choosing windozeIf the bank went with the FOSS and Linux, today would have been profitable not bankrupt.WowI didn't even see one mention of Windows in the article. I bet Linux can save us all from the looming economic destruction and...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Java, information technology, Linux, F/OSS, J2EE, bank, Microsoft Windows, IT Failure

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

Takeover Fever: The Apple-Sun saga

Takeover Fever: The Apple-Sun sagaSay it aint so...That would be awful unless IBM ditched AIX and PPC to replace it with Sun. Plus that would pretty much ruin any UNIX competition in the market. Who would compete HP? BlahStill as an Apple user I would still perfer Apple to take...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Apple Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-03-19

IBM's potential purchase of Sun: Here's why it makes sense

IBM is reportedly in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion and the deal is long overdue. The companies mesh on the open source software front, Sun is struggling and IBM can consolidate some server market share.  First, the headlines. The Wall Street Journal is reporting...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Matt Asay, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Taking notes on your Linux laptop

Taking notes on your Linux laptopNo, but certainly part of the MS enabled ecosystem.His post reads exactly as someone who is desperate to downplay Linux while espousing that the only "real" software is Windows based. Be a shame if any of those kids wanted to learn web technologies though,...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Taking Notes, Linux laptop, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

RDBMS license costs and Open Source

RDBMS license costs and Open SourceSoftware EngineeringOne of the basic tenants of SE is that 90% of the cost of software "projects" development is in the maintenance phase. IOW all the work of designing, developing and deploying only amount to 10% of the lifecycle cost. So if you doubled your...

Tags: Databases, Processors, Servers, RDBMS, maintenance phase, CPU, open source

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade

Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgradeAnecdotal evidenceThis is the Nth time you use this particular setup of the two 690s as a basis for comparison between AIX/Power and Solaris/Whatever. As stated in another post the problems with that system has nothing to do with AIX but with design.I can counter...

Tags: Blade servers, Databases, Enterprise software, Recruitment & Selection, Storage, PCI, P690, T5440, Oracle Real Application Cluster

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Upgrading older systems

Upgrading older systemseBay "support"At FORD, we had many legacy machines in differing states of "decay". One was a NVH (Noice/Vehicle Harmonics) platform - which consisted of a specialty input card (ISA bus?) that connected hundreds of different sensors on a vehicle to check noise levels. A new card was pretty...

Tags: T5440, P550, Sun Microsystems Inc., P690, older system, Upgrading, Ford Motor Co., eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-02

Everybody loves virtualization

Everybody loves virtualizationOne of my pet peevesVirtualization is useful for testing and development environments. It makes no sense whatsoever for production environments.UNIX has a very nice scheduler that is built to handle hundreds/thousands of processes at a time. It automatically doles out CPU and memory and I/O resources. It has...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, UNIX, virtualization, Sun Solaris, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Tuning IBM AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 for Oracle Database

This paper discusses performance analysis and tuning for Oracle workloads on IBM AIX 5.3 and IBM AIX 6.1 configurations. Oracle performance tuning is a vital part of the management and administration of successful database systems. The reader will learn how best to exploit the specific performance features of AIX 5.3...

Tags: Database, Oracle Corp., Performance, IBM AIX, Oracle Database, IBM Corp., UNIX, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2009-01-01

Predictions for 2009

Predictions for 2009Rock on!Which CPU took longer to reach the market, Rock or Viking? Viking never actually made it to market, and in the meantime the slow@ss SPARC2's were overrun by the speedy first 100Mhz processor (HP735). Those 3 (5?) long years for Sun defined how inept it is at...

Tags: Linux, Strategy, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, information technology, General Motors Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Obama, Ford Motor Co.

Discussion threads 2008-12-31

Perl Dev Kit (Windows) 7.3 build 287519 (Windows)

The Perl Dev Kit PDK provides essential tools for Perl programmers, making it simple to build and deploy applications. PDK features application builders for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX; plus a suite of tools to speed development time and improve code quality. PDK 7.3 supports ActivePerl...

Tags: Perl, Microsoft Windows, Perl Dev Kit, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development

Software downloads 2008-12-23

Whispers from a ghost: Windows 7 and cloud computing

Whispers from a ghost: Windows 7 and cloud computingYou don't mention it until MS is involvedMS is a latecomer to the party. Yet you single out MS for this. Well, since you're so confident - why don't you put a bet on it? How much money will you put up...

Tags: Storage, Operating systems, Storage management, Microsoft Windows, cloud computing, I/O, Microsoft Windows 7, basket, ghost, IBM AIX, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)

In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession,  as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-14