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- Comparing cost/benefit change: x86 vs. SPARC
- Comparing cost/benefit change: x86 vs. SPARCSo you're predicting another losing quarter for Sun.Businesses seem to have templates for purchases. A high cost to us as individuals can appear an insignificant amount as a cost of doing business.Consider, please, the assertion: competition is not primarily about price or performance,...
- Tags: Blade servers, Workstations, Servers, Processors, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Blade, Unix, Sun Sparc, workstation, Sun Blade 150, Intel x86, PC
- Discussion threads 2005-08-01
- Comparing cost/benefit change: x86 vs. SPARC
- On September 19, 2001, Dell's U.S. web site recommended the 17-inch Dell GX150 with 128 MB of RAM, a 20 GB hard disk, a 900-MHz Celeron, and Windows 2000 for desktop use in mid to large businesses. With Office 2000 the package came to $1,698. Today, not quite four years...
- Tags: Sun Blade 150, RAM
- Blog posts 2005-08-01
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- Tim Bray on surviving the tough times
- Image via WikipediaTim Bray, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems gave what I believe to be the most practical advice I've heard so far for those in startups looking forward. Speaking at FOWA, Tim's blunt view is that we are headed for tough times but that should not blind...
- Tags: Personal Technology, Tim Bray, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Overachiever: Sun surpasses greenhouse gas reduction goals
- Bully for Sun Microsystems. The company's U.S. operations have actually already overshot the 20 percent reduction goal originally set for 2012 under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program. Yes, that's right folks, a tech company has done something earlier than expected! The company reports this...
- Tags: Emission, Sun Microsystems Inc., Greenhouse Gas, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- GridBuster (zip)
- GridBuster is a casual puzzle game. The object of the game is to guide the ball from the top left corner of the grid to the goal in the bottom right corner of the grid, however, the path is blocked by an array of tiles. You begin with a certain...
- Tags: Tile, Motron Software, GridBuster, Corporate Governance, Games, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- Where open source will be sucked into the downdraft
- Where open source will be sucked into the downdraftPure play open source is not going away ...... bad business models are.I've run a pure play open source company for seven years and expect to be around for many more. We have a unique business model called "spend less than you...
- Tags: Pure-play open source, open source, downdraft, economic downturn
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Bureaucracy and open source: Do they mix?
- Another high-profile departure from Sun, this time MySQL's David Axmark is taking wing -- citing a dislike for working in a large organization: I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organisations. I HATE all the rules that I need...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Where open source will be sucked into the downdraft
- Google will survive, albeit in a much smaller form. IBM will survive, and be ready to thrive when this is over. Everything else will consolidate. Bye-bye Sun. Red Hat, find a buyer. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
- It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...
- Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malware
- Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malwareAsus ships Eee Box PCs with malwareThis is a deliberate attempt by Asus to get people to move away from Microsoft Windows and get the Asus eee's with linux installed. I hope Microsoft sues them for negligence. After that people will not want...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, ASUS, Eee Box PC, malware
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Beautiful Earth Wallpaper and Screensaver (exe)
- Earth weather is a desktop wallpaper generator and screen saver. Earth weather shows you how the earth looks like from the space at this very moment on your desktop wallpaper and screen saver. You can see which parts of the earth are enjoying the sun light. And in night areas...
- Tags: Desktop Wallpaper, Earth, Screensaver, GimmeGoody Software
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- UK Radio 150 Stations (gadget)
- Introducing the UK Radio gadget with 150 stations of streaming digital radio. Simply click on the radio station you desire and play the live Internet stream. Don't pay for Web radio, when you can listen for free. This gadget uses your Windows media player and Real player for audio broadcasts,...
- Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- JBL On Stage IIIP
- Though they are portable devices, the iPod and the iPhone can make a wonderful source for headphone-free music when connected to a speaker. If you have a player full of great music and personalized playlists, you might as well play it out loud every once in a while. Unfortunately, several...
- Tags: stereo separation, JBL, Stage IIIP, speaker, Apple iPod, Apple iPhone
- Product reviews 2008-10-08
- Changing open source terms bad move in a recession
- Changing open source terms bad move in a recessionOpen Source flawed modelIf a car manufacture engineers a car, it does not release its blue-prints for free. If an architect designs a house he or she does not release his plans for free. The equivalent of an engineering blue...
- Tags: open source, car, recession
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- SpeakingPix (zip)
- This software has 2000 printable flashcards in 65 categories each with a recorded voice or sound. The voice or sound plays when you click on an image. You can print the images 1,2,4,6 or 8 per pages. You can re-record the voices, include your own images and record a voice...
- Tags: Voice, Image, ABA Materials, Telecommunications
- Software downloads 2008-10-08
- A question about web server volume failures
- A question about web server volume failuresWrite heavy loadI don't think you can compare a write-heavy do-not-call registry to a mostly static wordpress site.It wouldn't hard to mock-up a simple registry site and test it.The question you seem to be askig is.. how do i make my site scalable.Lets start...
- Tags: Web servers, Firewalls, Storage, Web server, server, database, router, firewall, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The Secrets of CEOs
- I just finished reading an advance US manuscript of 'The Secrets of CEOs - 150 Global Chief Executives lift the lid on business, life and leadership' by Steve Tappin, who is a managing partner in the global CEO & board practice of Heidrick & Struggles, and Andrew Cave, a leading...
- Tags: CEO, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000
- EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company. The layoffs were largely expected, but the Bill Me Later purchase for $820 million in...
- Tags: Payment, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Bill, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Why bother with desktop virtualization?
- The proponents of making proper use of desktop virtualization technology including access virtualization, application virtualization and VDI the combination of access virtualization and processing virtualization do their best to make it sound like the best things since pockets. Aren't today's laptops, desktops and handheld devices good enough to get the...
- Tags: Desktop, Worker, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
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