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- UK Santas getting gadget training before the holidays
- Shopping List for regular readersExcellent idea training: then you can select with confidence from ZDNET bloggers' recommended XMAS gifts:1. Ed Bott: Windows Secrets by Paul Thurrott. You might get a signature on that because Ed is on a world tour fixing Vista PC's one at a time. Oh, you wanted...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, RAID, PRODUCTIVITY, Memory, UK Santas, gadget training, Xmas Gift, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Covetus the Sun installed base
- The value of Sun’s Solaris installed base proved its worth once again this week as Oracle found it too tempting to pass up and pulled the trigger trumping IBM. A large percent of Oracle’s most profitable customers run their Oracle wares on Solaris and for them to fall further into...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Virtualization, UNIX, Operating Systems, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Software, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- The IBM buys Sun Story
- The IBM buys Sun StoryTruthIf Sun get "owned" by IBM than they brought it onthemselves. They let SPARC performance lag for yearsand did not listen to their customers. If they hadembraced open source and x86 earlier (circa 2000/1)than they would have turned the tide but there was alot of residual...
- Tags: Corporate law, Investment, Servers, UNIX, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., antitrust, stock
- Discussion threads 2009-03-19
- HP and Sun expand partnership...what about a merger?
- Hewlett-Packard and Sun will announce details of "their newly expanded partnership agreement" Wednesday morning. Might this be a step towards a merger? I've long been a proponent of a HP/Sun combination, there are some strong synergies such as: +Both have strong and green datacenter...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Partnership, Merger, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microprocessor, +Sun, Middleware Software, Data Centers, Business Structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Semiconductors, Processors, Middleware, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Investment, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- IBM Acquires Transitive
- Last week, I received a notice from IBM's PR company that IBM was going to acquire Transitive, that clever supplier of operating system and hardware virtualization technology. It's clearly a move to strengthen IBM's claim on being the premier supplier of systems for the next generation datacenter. ...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Generation Datacenter, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- News to know: Google; Microsoft; eBay; SAP; Apple
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google’s second quarter: What to expect Deb Perelman: The Techie Hall of Shame Phil Wainewright: How much is a unit of cloud computing? Joe McKendrick: Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it' Robin...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Transitive's magic - Solaris/SPARC Apps and Hyper-V
- In the past, I posted about one of the important requirements of the next generation datacenter NGDC, the ability to consolidate diverse applications on a unified hardware platform. Both IBM (see What would a next generation datacenter look like?) and HP see HP and the next generation data center and...
- Tags: Application, Sun Sparc, Transitive QuickTransit, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Servers, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Geek Sheet: Bare-metal backup and recovery
- Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job? Or perhaps you need some light reading material to help you get some sleep on the plane between consulting engagements â€" either way, welcome to the...
- Tags: Recovery, Network File System, File System, Photovoltaics, Backup, Volume, Partition, Machine, System Rescue CD, LVM, Volume Group, Linux, Manufacturing, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- 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
- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all right
- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all rightEric may be right, it ttmight just be too much legal work, but, Sun couldGPL important parts that could be mixed with Linux. Of course that would mean they would have to move to Linux at some point and give up the...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Sun Solaris, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, nothing, UN*X, Unix, AT&T Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Barcelona, Tigerton, and the T2
- Barcelona, Tigerton, and the T2It's all goodI think the real story of Intel Tigerton/Caneland and AMD Barcelona is the real arrival of x86 "Big Iron". Sure, it has existed for years (Sequent and DG, then IBM and Unisys), but now it is affordable and real. It has great...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, UNIX, T2, Intel Corp., RISC/Unix, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2007-09-13
- Stop enterprise software hype: send me your stories
- Stop enterprise software hype: send me your storiesHype to content ratio calculationYou always need to take account of this making due allowance for divide by zero errors.Also be careful when the integration layer of the product is the salesman's powerpoint presentation.NT 4.0 . Beyond time 10/100/1000 and serv.2000.All these upstsrt...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Windows NT, Insurance, IT buyer, Gap Report, enterprise software, software
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- A dumb prediction: IBM will buy HP's Unix customers
- A dumb prediction: IBM will buy HP's Unix customersDumb[i]"So, bottom line, how dumb is this prediction? It's a bet on how smart IBM is - and, really, how can that be a loser?"[/i]IBM is a multi-billion dollar making company whereas Sun seems to specialise in multi-billion dollar losses. HP is...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Operating systems, Servers, HP Unix, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., IBM AIX, Unix
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- A dumb prediction: IBM will buy HP's Unix customers
- Just over a year ago Scott McNealy offered to have Sun extend support for HP-UX and begin a process to migrate HP's remaining Unix customers to Solaris. Most of the press laughed, and HP's people, presumably too busy bugging journalists to watch what was going on in the Unix part...
- Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Servers, Processors, Paul Murphy, HP Unix, Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., HP-UX, Unix
- Blog posts 2007-08-17
- Sun hopes for Linux-like Solaris
- Sun hopes for Linux-like SolarisWhat I find interesting isthat the "experts" say that Solaris need to be more Linux like to gain market. Aren't these the same guys that have a fit if you say Linux needs to be more Windows like to gain market???Going with Sun IMO would...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Linux, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-09
- Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn)
- Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn)Anything more than eye candy?What does this do for me to justify spending 2-4 hours to upgrade? The "story" features a lot of meaningless screen captures of progress bars and OS loads and not much else of interest. Let me ask,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Yellow Dog Linux, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, Ubuntu 7.04
- Discussion threads 2007-04-20
- From Sun 1 to T5240
- From Sun 1 to T52404 Cores?Your article states that modern desktops go "up to" 4 cores, but Apple's latest Mac Pro systems can be custom-configured with 8 cores...The standard config on those has 4 cores.Soon 16 Coreswill be available for server with 4 x Quads for both Intel and AMD.And...
- Tags: Workstations, Processors, Storage, Desktops, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- The importance of Solaris 10
- Almost two years ago, in November of 2004, I did a piece for Linuxinsider with this same title: the importance of Solaris 10. Last week Sun formally issued the latest point release, now including ZFS and PostgresSQL. So how do my opinions then, stand up now? Heres...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Sun Solaris 10, DTrace
- Blog posts 2006-10-06
- The good old days - are back?
- The good old days - are back?Faster disks - how so?They still run at 7200 RPM (10k or 15k for HP SCSI). They still have the same number of platters and heads. A 500Gb drive takes about 500 times longer to load and unload completely as a 1Gb drive. It's...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., Niagara-2, disk, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2006-09-11
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