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Originally a Math/Physics graduate who couldn't cut it in his own field, Paul Murphy a pseudonym became an IT consultant specializing in Unix and related technologies after a stint working for a DARPA contractor programming in Fortran and APL. Since then he's worked in both systems management and...- more about Paul Murphy »
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- Microsoft gets something right! Well, maybe.
- Google users generally learn to hate companies that pretend to offer information but really just act as redirectors for web hits - and when a bunch of recent searches showed that Microsoft's bing isn't (yet?) pollutted by these guys, they earned my business on the spot. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-07-04
- The case of the missing Sun refugees
- There's something missing from the stack of resumes crossing recruiter desks around the country: a huge upsurge in resumes from people working at Sun. So what do they know that you and I don't? by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
- Seven post holes and one thought
- The real break through we need in science computing is a general way to build machines capable of doing one sequential job many orders of magnitude faster than we can now. Holographic computing is one possibility, some people think quantum computing is another .-personally? I think analog computing has...
- Blog posts 2009-06-20
- Murphy collezioni
- Hey, facebook is IN, tweeting is IN, so why not a rambling Twit collezioni? about snow in June, a guy who "digs" Linux, and a three hour demonstration that Drupal can, out of the box, blow away years of custom work by some of data processing's finest web publishing...
- Blog posts 2009-06-13
- Discussing Corruption
- The most common form of personal corruption among IT people is venality: getting along by going along with something you know is wrong for the company or organization you work for - but it gets subtler than that, and can be soul destroying. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-06-06
- JavaStation Reprise?
- I just heard a speculation that I hope is untrue: that Oracle is looking at using a Windows Java client in lieu of the ill fated 1990s java station to run its applications in mixed Sun/Windows environments. Somebody please tell me it isn't so! by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Golf, Intimidation, and co-opting the boss
- When your bosses golf with people who work for some of your key suppliers and then turn down technical proposals to work with other companies, what do you do? Well, part of the answer is to understand why they do this and manipulate their emotions accordingly. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-05-30
- Cooling future cost inflation
- Waxman-Markey is great news for Sun - because doubling American energy costs within two years will first drive people to data center consolidation and then, finally, to facing the reality that 80 Watts PCs on user desks are heat producing power hogs that can be replaced with 4 watt Sun...
- Blog posts 2009-05-23
- Scorpions, Frogs, and Trench Warfare
- There is one situation in which forty people digging a hole will make a bigger hole faster than one: it happens when the hole you're digging is financial and what's falling in behind you is the business. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-05-16
- NCIS: Episode #140: Breakout
- When the producers behind TV's NCIS create a spin-off - and then use it to hype Windows Gesture Computing - I really want to respond by turning them off. But that's childish, so instead I decided to write episode 140 for them... by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-05-09
- Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreams
- The Sun/Oracle merger probably offers more genuine synergies and opportunities than anything either company has done in the past. One of those, a commercially minor but personally interesting one, involves a product which started life with name "Oracle Office" - it become something else, but could now realize its...
- Blog posts 2009-05-02
- A question about Linux
- The question the guy really asked was whether Linux successes are bad news for other Unix variants - particularly HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris. My answer is no: when Linux succeeds it's generally good news for Unix in general and Solaris in particular. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-04-25
- Oracle acquiring Sun
- Sounds like a good thing to me - no immediate conflicts, lots of possible synergies. And Ellison, of course, is a big Sun Ray fan - as are many of the remaining Peoplesoft and Oracle RDBMS developers. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- What Sun can do now - and why you should help.
- Can Sun survive? Sure - but it has to escape from Wall Street, sell its x86 division while it can, and start selling Solaris/SPARC and Sun Ray to the people who would benefit most from those products: the guys who spend $50K to $500K on IT every year and...
- Blog posts 2009-04-18
- Using open source to reduce business risk
- If you're paying enough in license and support fees on something that can be replaced with an open source product to hire a couple of open source developers instead, then doing that makes sense. in terms of overall business risk reduction. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-04-11
- Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem
- With Sun under threat of shutdown by IBM, people who had expected to buy SPARC gear from their 2009/2010 budgets should be looking at Intel's Nehalem servers as alternatives - but, because so little is known about both Sun's future and the changes Nehalem will impose on data center management,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-04
- A recommendation on leasing new equipment
- There's a triple whammy headed our way: inflation, taxation, and reduced market place competition on everything except staff. So what can you do? Not much, but consider leasing a whole bunch of shiny new gear now because that can reduce your taxes, reduce operating costs, and let you pay with...
- Blog posts 2009-03-28
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- The primary control in the Unix world is the user - most of the CoBit controls apply only as far needed to satisfy an auditor. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- More on Sun vs. IBM: Why destroy SPARC
- To really understand why IBM might want to cripple Sun through take-over talks all you need to know is that a Sun 5440 will outperform a P570 by about 2:1 on most business tasks - and costs roughly ten cents on the IBM dollar, inclusive of storage and RDBMS...
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- A plea for open source help
- I got an email last week from a guy who runs a recruitment agency and wants to adopt open source software for a specific requirement he can't comfortably afford to meet via an established commercial package. Here's his thumbnail description of the specific requirement: I...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
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