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Scott McNealy names Sun's top 10 tech innovations

E10K? Open SourceWow, an all this time I thought that the E10K came from Cray after the merger with SGI. The spin that Sun completed it is true, but it wasn't SUN culture of DNA.http://www.cray-cyber.org/systems/E10kborn.phpAnd who knew that Sun created open source, rather than struggling against it until they lost.The...

Tags: Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Inc., E10K

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

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Are big boxes better for server virtualization?

From time to time, someone will ask me if it makes sense to purchase a large (32+ CPU) server as a big virtualization host running a VMware, Microsoft, or Citrix hypervisor. In a word, I think the answer is "no". Here are a few...

Tags: Memory, CPU, Intel Xeon, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Galen Schreck

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Sun releases open-source Sparc designs

Sun releases open-source Sparc designsSun's open source effort is bound to doomThe technology of open source is by no means of cutting-edge, like buggy Linux kernel, firefox and so on. Advanced technologies will never be open, look at Windows, Office, Google search engine etc. The only reason why Linux becomes...

Tags: Processors, Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, Microsoft Corp., Cutting-Edge, Sun Sparc, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Sun Solaris, server

Discussion threads 2006-03-21

A message to Steve Jobs - From Greg Papadopoulos

Sun's Greg Papadopoulos put a fascinating essay on the continued operation of Moore's law as microsystems replace microprocessors in his Sun blog last week. Here are some key paragraphs: Just as the '80's discrete processors were killed by microprocessors, today's discrete systems ---...

Tags: chip, microprocessor

Blog posts 2005-11-18

A poster for the roses

A poster for the rosesAlong similar lines"Bear in mind that the orginal Sun 10K was the machine that beat the System 390 so badly that IBM stopped publically benchmarking the mainframe."MICROSOFT WINDOWS PLATFORM (OS ARCHITECTURE, TOOLS, APPLICATIONS ..) ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THEIR COMPETITION THAT THEY CALL MICROSOFT...

Tags: CPU, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-11-11

Sun to release first OpenSolaris scrap Tuesday

Sun to release first OpenSolaris scrap TuesdayThanks SUN, competition is great.This will force everybody working on the Linux kernel to be more competitive. And, we though we can not directly use Solaris features in Linux, we can inspect the code and create equivalents. Just as the KDE / GNOME competition...

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

Discussion threads 2005-01-24