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Can OpenSolaris become an alternative to enterprise Linux?

Sun's "open source road map" is to make OpenSolaris a viable alternative to enterprise Linux through a simpler install package and alliances in the enterprise open source space. The featured speaker for yesterday's open source summit at the Santa Clara headquarters was Debian founder Ian Murdock, who joined...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Idea, PostgreSQL, Murdock, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-16

Linux Foundation's Murdock: No secret deal with Microsoft

Linux Foundation's Murdock: No secret deal with MicrosoftRespectful..."A respectful exchange of ideas." Imagine that. Maybe the posters to this talkback could try that, just for a change.RespectfulThey must have bolted down all the chairs or did they send balmer out of town?Never happen"A respectful exchange of ideas" only...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, EULA, Murdock, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Linux Foundation

Discussion threads 2007-02-21

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DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC approval

Yeah but...Sure wish they'd fire McNealy & Schwartz, then it would make it all worthwhile.Michael Murdock, CEOWell I never liked Oracle anyway......good way for Oracle to shoot itself in the foot. :)Did you know that large snakes can misjudge prey and try to eat something too big? Then they literally...

Tags: Linux, Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft development tools, U.S. Department of Justice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?

Rupert Murdoch's grand subscription plan: Much ado over minimal revenue?Won't workThe only way News will get their revenue offset is if 'the pipe' is charged; in other words ISPs get charged and pass along the cost to you in the form of an increase surcharge on your broadband account.When a...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Operational accounting, grand subscription plan, minimal revenue, News Corp., Much Ado, subscription plan, Rupert Murdoch, revenue

Discussion threads 2009-08-06

Apple, and pretty much everyone, sued over touchpad technology

Apple, and pretty much everyone, sued over touchpad technologyHere comes the patent trolls, sigh.The patent trolls strike again.IMHO we should have "use it or lose it" laws in the patent system: If you don't use a patent in an actual product, you risk losing it and can't renew it.Not to...

Tags: patent, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosed

Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosedFlawed logic"They?re gonna find out about it anyway so I don?t see a big privacy issue"The fact if something is found out, does not define if something is private in the first place or not.But hey, this is an...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Investment, Steve Jobs, surgery, health care, material fact, Apple Inc., absence

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Rumor: AT&T mulling cheaper iPhone rate plans

Rumor: AT&T mulling cheaper iPhone rate plansNo Way! I want unlimited for $20. Not LIMITED!I pay $30 now for unlimited. Limited only means one thing...additional charges at a HUGE rate hike!Hell, that's why I ended up paying $5.00 for text messages because the .20 here and there added up!Nickle and...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., phone

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Screw licensing OS X - Give me an iPhone-based netbook

Screw licensing OS X - Give me an iPhone-based netbookHow about ...... Windows 7 touch netbook.RE: Screw licensing OS X - Give me an iPhone-based netbookApple say that they don't want to release netbooks for now,and probably forever, and don't know how to build $500 PC which are not crap....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Apple Mac OS X, netbook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Microsoft: 'We are not immune' to economy; Cuts 5,000 jobs; Earnings fall short

Microsoft: 'We are not immune' to economy; Cuts 5,000 jobs; Earnings fall shortM$ ship is sinkingWhile FOSS is thriving.That is a brave new world.A QuibbleYou said the race to netbooks [which use XP] is hurting margins. This point doesn't make sense to me.To briefly explain, a margin is a ratio...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Linux, job, Microsoft Corp., netbook, Cuts 5,000 job, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

Why Apple and Google need to get into the Netbook business

Why Apple and Google need to get into the Netbook businessApple NetbookLeopard booting netbooks already exist. One example would be the MSI Wind. It runs the existing version of Mac OS 10.5.5 without a problem and does it very well. Boot times run about 25 sec and wake and sleep...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Netbooks, Apple Inc., Netbook business, ASUS, Netbook, PC, Google Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-11-22

iPhone update kills 12 security bugs

iPhone update kills 12 security bugsdoesn't the iphone run a a very similarsystem has macs do? cocoa isn't it? a watered down verison i think. well why 12 security bugs i thought mac's system was suppose to be perfect with nothing wrong with the system. i guess ifans should shut...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple iPhone, security bug, iPhone Update, security

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Who will lead Obama-era FCC?

Who will lead Obama-era FCC?Gee another Bush Doctrine supporter...Is this why Palin will be running in 2012? Let me guess, she already has your vote.Considering that the election is over ...there are serious issues to discuss. It's time to deal with those issues. It's time to stop snarking "commie"...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Obama, Obama-era FCC, government

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Yahoo dips below $10; Icahn, board called out

Yahoo dips below $10; Icahn, board called outI suspect Icahn......is building a powerbase and sounding out the money men before sharpening his dagger.RE: Yahoo dips below $10; Icahn, board called outIf you believe in the Yahoo brand and product for the long-term, $10 per share is a great buying opportunity.Andy...

Tags: Corporate governance, Financial accounting, Investment, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Icahn board, board

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Ballmer says Google is "way behind" in mobile

Ballmer says Google is "way behind" in mobileBalmerToo bad he opens his mouth several years before his brain is operating!Yes, Google leap-frogged MS here, and about the only thing that Balmer cando is try to badmouth them. But, in the end, it makes him look like a fool!Also, the Microsoft...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, mobile, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

Sun feels imapct of slowing economy; warns for Q1

Sun feels imapct of slowing economy; warns for Q1One year chart - painfulIt's very close to the price before the 1 for 4 reverse split a year ago. They've shed 3/4 of their market cap in the past year.Chart it from Jan 2007. Bring in Hector!Hey isn't Hector...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., slowing economy

Discussion threads 2008-10-21

What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failure

I think the short answer to "what happened to growth in the OpenSolaris community" is Ian Murdock; but the longer answer is that growth continues but enthusiasm lags and the commercial applications market has become more a defensive one than a leading edge one. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Growth, Paul Murphy, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel X86, Sun Sparc, Systems Story, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Cheat sheet: SEO

Cheat sheet: SEOSEO...good article. As someone who does this for a business it's nice to see someone write about this.SEO is not rocketscience, but it is not just something that anyone can do, especially if you're trying to make a business website.This business is sticky and it's always changing. What...

Tags: SEARCH, Marketing research, search engine optimization, Cheat-Sheet

Discussion threads 2008-09-17

Top 5 apps from iPhone Dev Camp 2

Top 5 apps from iPhone Dev Camp 2MMS anyone?It's interesting that one itch in everyone's craw is the missing MMS feature from the iPhone that's available with every account, but no software around to do it. Unless of course you jailbreak back to 1.1.4 and use Swirly which I discovered...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, iPhone Dev Camp, iPhone Dev Camp 2, iPhone Dev, Top 5, Apple iPhone, MMS

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

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

OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up

What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...

Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., BSD, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-05