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- Solaris OE Guide for New System Administrators
- This paper contains the most relevant 20% of technical information reader will need to know when working with Solaris and Sun platforms. It should answer 80% of your Solaris questions. This document is intended to serve as a "how to" collection for those who are new to Solaris system administration...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris Operating Environment, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
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- Sun Solaris Operating Environment
- This paper introduces the Sun™ Solaris™ 2.6 operating environment, the Solaris family of servers, and Solaris software for developing, deploying, and managing an information network. An introduction to the vision Sun Microsystems has for information technology and web computing is contained within this chapter. A summary of the...
- Tags: Environment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris Operating Environment, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
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- Novell PlateSpin Migrate really moves Solaris workloads
- Novell introduced me to the features of the newest release of PlateSpin Migrate the other day. If you'll recall, I've offered a number of posts on Novell's PlateSpin unit. The most recent of these is Novell PlateSpin Recon 3.6. Novell appears to be one of the few suppliers that offer...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Workload, Data Centers, Sun Solaris, Servers, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- Quick thoughts on the (possible) demise of OpenSolaris
- Quick thoughts on the possible demise of OpenSolarisWhere's the news?All I see here is a blog post from someone who says that people working on OpenSolaris are worried about the future. What else is new?Above and beyond that, the post is pure speculation. He's afraid OpenSolaris is going to "die...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, OpenSolaris, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
- Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac
- I've often been asked why I don't own a Mac. The answer is simple, and yet complex, and requires a trip down memory lane artwork by Spidermonkey David Morgenstern’s column last week about Psystar’s imminent demise and his accompanying “Good Riddanceâ€...
- Tags: Software, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Next Computer, Canon Inc., Fanboy Template Let, Andrew, NeXTStep, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- The Oracle-buys-Sun thing - 'Snorkel' - what's the deal with that?
- "Thanks Larry for finally putting us out of our misery." -Tony Baer There's been a firehose of commentary to be found about today's announcement that Oracle intends to buy Sun, so I won't add to the noise. But I will point to some insightful remarks...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Dana, Miko, Programming Languages, Java, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Middleware, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Seven big tech acquisitions to watch for in 2009
- Seven big tech acquisitions to watch for in 2009Oh pleaseApple buy Adobe? They would never deplete their cash that much. Adobe would be very expensive. And as for the comment about Adobe certainly selling more than half to Windows users, that's barely true, but not nearly as much as people...
- Tags: Mainframes, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., big tech acquisition, tech acquisition
- Discussion threads 2009-04-14
- The Future of Unix
- Present day commercial Unix versions are well behind the research community. As far back as 1982 the single machine focus of Unix development became an issue in the research community. Accordingly a number of people at Bell Labs including Dennis Ritchie and Rob Pike, both of whom had contributed to...
- Tags: Plan 9, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- HP to distribute Sun's Solaris on its Proliant servers
- HP will distribute and support Sun's Solaris 10 operating system on its Proliant and blade servers. The companies on Wednesday unveiled a multi-year pact that will provide Sun with more distribution for its Solaris 10 platform statement. HP will resell Solaris subscriptions. HP also noted that the...
- Tags: HP Compaq ProLiant Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc., HP Compaq ProLiant, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- HP and Sun expand partnership...what about a merger?
- HP and Sun expand partnership...what about a merger?RE: Solaris and JavaI can't help but wonder what HP would do to Sun's software assets in the event of cutting operating costs. economic downturn etcSeeing as they're fundamentally of a hardware mindset.It would be beneficial to their survival (Solaris & Java), if...
- Tags: Business structures, Processors, Mergers & Acquisitions, merger, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Itanium, hardware, partnership
- Discussion threads 2009-02-24
- Microsoft and Red Hat agreement and the next generation datacenter
- Microsoft and Red Hat have come to an agreement allowing virtualization technology from each company to support virtual machines containing the others operating environment. My colleagues Mary-Jo Folley see Microsoft and Red Hat sign virtualization pact and Paula Rooney (see It’s true: Microsoft and Red Hat cooperate on virtualization) have...
- Tags: Data Center, Red Hat Inc., IBM z/OS, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., IBM OS/400, IBM Corp., Generation Datacenter, Virtualization, Data Centers, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, Apple Mac OS, Storage Management, Servers, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- “Security” issues
- “Security” issuesPoor programming and poor programmers.Software producers have convinced everyone it is the nature of software to have security problems. Why has the world bought that scenario? I still say that software companies need to be held financially accountable for the damages their software causes its users. Microsoft should have...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, security, SunOS 5.10
- Discussion threads 2009-01-26
- Why Linux owes (part of) its success to Microsoft
- Why Linux owes part of its success to MicrosoftFascinatingRMS was the one with the open source ideas. Not Torvalds.. Torvalds found nothing usefull for his brand new 80386. After approaching Tanenbaum and asking whether more features and support could be implemented in Minix. He came to write his own OS....
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, microkernel, RISC machine, Linux STILL, Linux, Unix, Microsoft Corp., operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-12-16
- Windows 7, undigested red meat, and a delicate sensibility
- Windows 7, undigested red meat, and a delicate sensibilityI knew the cheap shot was somewhere in thereBut I had to wait until the very end to find it. Both systems had binary lock states. The Sun guys went with singularity and the Windows guys went with trinary lock states. However,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Know-nothings, Microsoft Windows, delicate sensibility, Microsoft Windows 7, red meat, sensibility, meat, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureBring in the ClonesIn that timeframe, there was no way I could afford any computer from a brand name (I didn't have Billy's rich parents and had to work at Burger King to feed my tech habit). The two things that made my choice easier...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Sun Microsystems Inc., PC, computer, Amiga
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failure
- What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failureDificult to grabsun startegy regarding opensolaris/solaris x86 is very difficult to grad, and I think that is partly due to sun having changed their strategy over time.First, i think the program was started when they didn't know the outcome of niagara.the risc...
- Tags: Processors, Operating systems, UNIX, second-one, Intel x86, Sun Solaris
- Discussion threads 2008-10-15
- Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)
- In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession, as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...
- Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Data Processing scores big success! Linux loses, again!
- Data Processing scores big success! Linux loses, again!Wrong title, MurphIt should be "IT N00bs at large in Canada" or something along those lines :)Also funny they switched to a windows server. "Oh, we understand windows, cause we use it at home! let's try that! Oh no use! Oh no, what...
- Tags: Operating systems, data-processing, Murph, Linux, big success, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0
- Last week Sun launched the newest version of xVM VirtualBox, its open source virtual machine software offering. Here's a quick review of the announcement. Snippet of Sun's press release: Here are a few lightly edited segments of the Sun release: Sun Microsystems,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., xVM VirtualBox Software, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Operating Systems, Management, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Commercial development strategies
- Commercial development strategiesMy own two centsYour presentation, while quite interessting, miss, I think two points.first solaris, as I already stated on your previous post, is not anymore generic than any other operating system, be it windows, linux or AmigaOS. It is one specific operating system among other. I can...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, operating system, GUI Front-end
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
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