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Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?

I have seen an internal Oracle email that confirms persistent rumors that Jespers Andersen, SVP Application Development at Oracle has left for Cisco. The email says: "You may well have heard today, the rumour mill has been very busy that Jesper has resigned from Oracle. ...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Jesper, Team Management, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-03

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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

Petaflops, Megawatts, and data files

Petaflops, Megawatts, and data filesWell..As far as I can read from the article you are quoting then Sequoia will be a 'Blue Gene' type system, which is something very different from the Blade based Roadrunner.Have a look at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_GeneIt's basically based around the PPC440, I think they use a quad core...

Tags: Processors, Blue Gene, Petaflop

Discussion threads 2009-02-09

Can someone make my cell server, please?

Can someone make my cell server, please?BumpIgnoreTry this blokeDr. Gaurav KhannaHe might be able to helphttp://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/10/ps3_supercomputerWell.. there is the QS22..Well MurphyIf you want to build a supercomputer of cell processors you'd prob' want more than good single precision floating point performance, hence you'd want the version 2 of the CELL...

Tags: Blade servers, Utility computing, Servers, Processors, blade, IBM Corp., Cell, Sony PlayStation 3

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

Merry Christmass!

Merry Christmass!Jup.Same to U Murph :)=// JesperOne certainly expects ...... and increase in mass this X.Have a good one!RE: Merry Christmass!Thanks Murph,Merry Christmas to you and yours!Stay safe, stay warm, have a great holiday!Merry Christmas Murph. Peace.nt"... defense on the Oboe"?The oboe solo at the end of Night on Bare...

Tags: Ubantu, Murph, Anton

Discussion threads 2008-12-24

Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?

Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?Jesper AndersonUh-oh PeopleSoft customers! Get ready for Fusion apps with no PTools, PCode, etc....RE: Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?As a former leader among the Fusion Applications technology group I can assure you that Jesper...

Tags: Leadership, vertical play, Andersen, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

In the information age, IT innovation means everything

In the information age, IT innovation means everythingInteresting.I think many IT failures are due to misundersyanding the company's business model. The nuances if you will. This is another reason to develop internally. To take it one step further. There are many good IT personnel that only understand IT. They don't...

Tags: Strategy, Leadership, Operating systems, information technology, innovation, Linux, Unix, blog

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Will Enterprise 2.0 be a wash?

Next week sees the start of Enterprise 2.0 in Boston. You'd think that given the line up of rock star speakers that it would be a magnet for eager buyers looking to find out what's likely to be new, fresh and shiny in the wonderful world of all things social....

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXML

Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXMLSo let me get this straight....... during an investigation of irregularities in the vote they are allowing an appeal after the dealine. Priceless!Glad to see it.When a company can't even implement their own creation that speaks for itself.No surprise on...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Process improvement, Venezuelan Government, ISO, Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, irregularity

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Microsoft not pulling XP SP3 again (so far)

Microsoft isn't halting Windows XP Service Pack SP 3 distribution -- so far, at least -- in spite of endless-reboot problems reported by AMD-based PC customers, a company spokeswoman said on May 9. Reports of the reboot problem are cropping up on Microsoft forums and other sites...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-09

Minimizing XP SP3 woes - UPDATED

I'm getting sporadic reports of Windows XP users having problems installing XP SP3 on some systems. Here are some tips to help make the install process a little smoother. Disable AV software It seems that some antivirus AV software causes the SP3 install to hang, while...

Tags: Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., AV, Service Pack 3 Setup, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-09

Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there's no Windows "back door"

Techdirt's Mike Masnick is usually pretty reliable, but he completely blew it today, hitting the publish button on one of the sloppiest, most inflammatory stories I've seen in a long time: Microsoft Gives Vista Backdoor Keys To The Police It's long been assumed that Microsoft has...

Tags: Security, Password, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Encryption, USB, Tool, Computer, CrunchGear, USB Switchblade, Productivity, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIX

Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIXIBM, bah!I always considered AIX as the fork that broke UNIX' back. IBM was very late to the UNIX party, and instead of paying 5 bucks for a copy of SysV UNIX, they instead re-invented the wheel badly by re-writing UNIX...

Tags: Operating systems, IBM AIX, IBM Corp., Unix, Linux, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-04-22

Still no word: ISO to announce results of OOXML vote Wednesday

Still no word: ISO to announce results of OOXML vote WednesdayWill Microsoft declare before Mugabeit's a race to the result .......Pretty sad the way the standards system is being trampled on here. It issupposed to be about the merits, NOT politics.Another thing, this is giving OSI a black eye. An...

Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, ISO, OOXML

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Alternate Universes: Unix vs MCSE

Alternate Universes: Unix vs MCSEMurph, if you can...... make this a bit pithier, I'll consider having it put on a plaque:The problem is that a computer isn't just a computer: it's the visible element in an evolved behavioral system. And of course that includes users, not just IT.New entrantYour title...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Unix

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

Auditor news you didn't want to hear

Auditor news you didn't want to hearJup. Nice find Murph.// JesperStrategic ObjectivesThat's the phrase that strikes me as ominous, given that the nominal job of auditors is to make sure that proper accounting procedures are being followed. When it's extended to making the boss look good (or other like...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, auditor new, role separation

Discussion threads 2008-01-16

A comparison of quad-core server CPUs

A comparison of quad-core server CPUsRE: A comparison of quad-core server CPUsI am a firm supporter of competition an so I cannot wait for AMD to sort out their quad CPU problems.Very timely post!George, hats off to you as usual. There has been a lot of talk on the DV...

Tags: Processors, SuperMicro, Tom, quad-core, quad-core server, CPU, AMD Phenom

Discussion threads 2008-01-02

IE6 crashing? Here's the reason, and the fix

Update 21-Dec-2007, 6:00AM PST: Microsoft has now updated the Knowledge Base article referenced in this post. The file now includes a link to an executable file that implements the Registry fix previously listed. The update file is also available directly from Microsoft's Download Center. Yesterday I read about a problem with Internet...

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-12-20

Oracle's wall-to-wall software suite

Oracle massive software suite, important components of which were assembled during the company's aggressive acquisition strategy (41 companies over the last 45 months), has yielded an impressive product road map. Oracle presented its grand vision to the 43,000 attendees of OpenWorld, its annual user conference which was held this past...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Product Suite, Brian, Strategy, Middleware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-11-17