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Is DTrace Sun's killer application?

Is DTrace Sun's killer application?so whats the difference betweenD-Trace sounds a lot like Performance Monitoring on Windows. If its not how exactly is it different.Not what I'd call a KILLER yetIn April '06, I took SUN Education's CLASS on DTrace. What a cool facility, just what we need to...

Tags: Performance management, UNIX, Operating systems, NETWORKING, developer, DTrace Sun, open source, Sun Solaris, D-Trace, OSX

Discussion threads 2006-12-07

Is DTrace Sun's killer application?

Wednesday evening Im at Le Colonial in San Franciscos Tenderloin District having a spirited discussion with one of Suns young Turks, a bright software engineer called Bryan Cantrill. Were talking about a technology he and his team have developed called DTrace. Quite simply it is a way to spot performance...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., DTrace, DTrace Sun, Enterprise IT, Sun

Blog posts 2006-12-07

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Thinking about ROCK

A technology is only as good as what you can achieve with it - and in thinking about some unique Sun technologies - CMT, HTM, Dtrace, and the CMT package management hardware - it occurs to me that that these can be combined to beat some very serious infrastructure security...

Tags: Technology, Security, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-07-25

Quick thoughts on the (possible) demise of OpenSolaris

Quick thoughts on the possible demise of OpenSolarisWhere's the news?All I see here is a blog post from someone who says that people working on OpenSolaris are worried about the future. What else is new?Above and beyond that, the post is pure speculation. He's afraid OpenSolaris is going to "die...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, OpenSolaris, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The Time

OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The TimeWatch Out Microsoft: Coming at ya from all sides!Nobody can tell me otherwise, OpenSolaris is a thing of beauty--ZFS, ZFS Slider, Dtrace, Containers, GNOME Nimbus interface, xVM Hypervisor LDOMS, and new CrossBar Network Virtualization.There's some serious $hit going on here I wish were in...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, OpenSolaris, OpenSolaris 2009.06, software, Getting Better

Discussion threads 2009-06-07

Are any open source projects too big to lose

Are any open source projects too big to loseAn enemy of an enemy...It seems clear that these "crown jewels" are continuing sources of vexation to MS. So why would MS arch-enemy Oracle do anything to reduce this effect?On the other hand, might MS counter-move by buying some open source...

Tags: OpenOffice, Databases, UNIX, Oracle Corp., open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source project, MySQL, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

Sun sells soul for 10 cents more

Sun sells soul for 10 cents moreThis is a best fit and should have happened long time ago...As explained by Dana Blankhorn in http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4014 (Why is Oracle picking up the Sun mess?), the following single reason is alone good enough to justify this acquisition"This is a defensive move. To quote...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Programming languages, Operating systems, UNIX, Middleware, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sun sells soul, IBM Corp., Sun Sells, Java

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

The 'IBM buys Sun' story

Since sometime last summer a company called Southeastern Asset Management has been both accumulating Sun shares and hawking them to various big players. They got nowhere with HP, nowhere with Microsoft, nowhere with the Koreans, and nowhere with IBM - but recent political change has changed that: bringing IBM back...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Corporate Law, Sun Solaris, Servers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Business Operations, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-19

The deed is done: now are you better off?

Scenario 1: Congratulations! The virtual "you" has done the deed: the last HP RP8440 - always a relative piece of junk because designed for Itanium and sold with the incompatible PA-8900 - is gone, and a couple of nice shiny new Proliants have taken its place....

Tags: T2, Sun Sparc, HP Compaq ProLiant, Deed, Linux, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-05

The deed is done: now are you better off?

Scenario 1: Congratulations! The virtual "you" has done the deed: the last HP RP8440 - always a relative piece of junk because designed for Itanium and sold with the incompatible PA-8900 - is gone, and a couple of nice shiny new Proliants have taken its place....

Tags: T2, Sun Sparc, HP Compaq ProLiant, Deed, Linux, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-05

Crossbow's golden arrows

Crossbow's golden arrowsOk so all this network stuff is really cool.....but like Sun's CPU stratergy it seems as if it is competing with itself. Will this tempt away Linux customers. Ummm.. NO! Will it cause Cisco to loose market share. Umm.. NO!Perhaps it will make existing Solaris users stick with...

Tags: Operating systems, Servers, NETWORKING, Crossbow, Sun Solaris, Unix, golden arrow, network, network group, network interface card

Discussion threads 2009-02-26

Flash vs Cash

Flash vs CashGlobal Marketing CTO = oxymoron?Technical marketing? Is that taught in schools?Having Dtrace being able to scan through the entire stack from OS to storage is the game changer. EVERYONE is interested in system performance, and to do an accurate assessment you need good tools. These do NOT exist...

Tags: UNIX, Storage, Operating systems, IBM AIX, Oracle Corp., EMC Corp., I/O, file system, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-19

Storage choices

Storage choicesWhat about the lords of storage?You know, the guys whose entire life is dedicated to carving out disk space? How do these highly paid specialists maintain simple JBODS or 74xx devices? Where are the switches? Where is the fiber? You mean they might have to log into a *gasp*...

Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, RAID, Servers, ZFS, SAN, storage, CX4-240, Sun 74XX, LORDS, EMC Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solution

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

Sun releases VirtualBox 2.1

Sun releases VirtualBox 2.1Interesting. Please follow upI have o agree with you. I personally use virtual box because it combines the easiness of Vmware, while being free and even open source at least there is an open source version. So I can't speak for the server market, but at least...

Tags: desktop virtualization, Operating systems, Microsoft development tools, innotek VirtualBox, VirtualBox 2.1, Sun Microsystems Inc., openSUSE, Microsoft Windows, server

Discussion threads 2008-12-22

Commercial development strategies

Commercial development strategiesMy own two centsYour presentation, while quite interessting, miss, I think two points.first solaris, as I already stated on your previous post, is not anymore generic than any other operating system, be it windows, linux or AmigaOS. It is one specific operating system among other. I can...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, operating system, GUI Front-end

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Novell Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality

DTrace and the Linux bunker mentalityBecause it is the Linux way Paul1) Take something good and copy it badly.2) Never, ever listen to anyone offering advice regarding usability [i]"Linux ain't no Fisher Price OS"[/i] etc.3) Spend more time arguing on the mailing lists, than actually developing and bug-testing.RE: DTrace and...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, DTrace, SCO Group Inc., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Apple's Grand Central threat to Microsoft

Apple's quiet preview of OS X.6 - Snow Leopard - promises ". . . unrivaled support for multi-core processors . . . " through a "new set of technologies" named Grand Central. What makes Grand Central so powerful - and how can Microsoft respond? Fresh from Google's...

Tags: Performance, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-16

What's wrong at OpenSolaris

The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Commercial OpenSolaris ships

After a three-year incubation period, Sun’s long promised OpenSolaris, the third open source variant of Unix, was officially delivered Monday. "It's the first Opensolaris operating system that's fully supported," said Jim McHugh, vice president of Solaris marketing for Sun. OpenSolaris will compete in a...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-04