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- Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinking
- Google's recent release of their "Chrome" browser beta was, I think, driven by their perception that the disruption IE8 is about to create in the marketplace spells opportunity for Google. It's nice to see competition at work, but their entire strategy is, I think, reactive rather than proactive and not...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Microsoft Windows Vista, IE8, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Channel Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open SourcePerhaps if you read what you wroteYou say regarding Wintel:"you’ll find 2o FTEs an extremely conservative minimum just to keep the lights on."and then regarding Solaris:"you’re going to be paying about ten people, four of whom you don’t actually need every day"Your statement about doubling...
- Tags: Servers, Operating systems, UNIX, environment, Microsoft Corp., development environment, server, Sun Solaris, Solaris Servers, Wintel, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- The Unix sysadmin salary premium
- A review of job openings at major American employers shows that there is no "Unix salary premium" but there is a 15% or so skills premium reflecting the typical Unix sysadmin's ability to fill other roles - like those of the DBA or Windows administrator - without, as it were,...
- Tags: System Administrator, Wintel, Data-processing, Salary, Payscale, Outliers, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Kernel Solaris Data Recovery Software (exe)
- Kernel Solaris recovers data from deleted, formatted, damaged, or corrupted partitions where unix based Sun Solaris operating system is installed on the hard disk. Kernel Recovery for Solaris Intel is advanced data recovery utility recovers data from corrupted Solaris volumes where UFS based file systems are installed. Kernel Solaris supports...
- Tags: Data Recovery, Kernel, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-07-24
- How to lose customers by not even trying
- "The easiest way to lose a customer? make it clear you don't care about that customer." Tired old wisdom, right? Sure, but checkout how this applies to webstores - and understand the message poorly thought out webstores send customers. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Avis Rent A Car System Inc., Hertz Corp., Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Operating Systems, UNIX, Web Browsers, Servers, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- 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
- ESXX (exe)
- ESXX, pronounced Essex, is a Web application server that executes Web applications written in JavaScript (a.k.a. ECMAscript) on the server-side. It's written in Java and has no external dependencies except for J2SE 6.0. Everything else that's required is packaged in one single, executable JAR file, ready to be tested in...
- Tags: Web Application, Martin Blom, Apple Mac OS X, Cloud Computing, Sun Solaris, Java, Apple Mac OS, Programming Languages, Linux, Operating Systems, Application Servers, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-11
- IT success stories
- Linkedin's web infrastructure seems to offer a model for mid range sites: it's fast, it's clean - and development seems to have been based on combining the best of open source products with minimal customization. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Customer Service, Information Technology, Success Story, Sun Solaris, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Open Source, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Firefox and the horrors of the Solaris install process
- Firefox and the horrors of the Solaris install processnot that i had anything interesting to sayI am used to having my comments *deleted*. ;)I'm sure incompetent top management...was to blame. Couldn't be the IT personnel.As was Fedora'syum -y updateRE: disappearing commentsAs many of you will have noticed comments sometimes...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, UNIX, Most linux distro, WinBlows, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, horror, Sun Solaris, WINDOWS USERS, windoze user
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Firefox and the horrors of the Solaris install process
- 1:45 P.M. With tomorrow's blog safely filed, time to experiment with the new firefox. rt % pkg-get -U ... catalog updated) rt % pkg-get -i firefox y y y... hit a bunch more of these ...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Sun Solaris, Web Browsers, Internet, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- NetBeans, Solaris, GlassFish: The Ruby's Red Slippers Fit
- Opening the JVM to Ruby and the advent of JRuby on Rails marks an advance in Java technology. It enables the faster creation of easily maintained and rich web sites in the Web 2.0 era. Of particular note is Sun's Da Vinci Machine project, which is extending the JVM with...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun NetBeans, Project GlassFish, Ruby, JVM, Sun Solaris, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2008-06-01
- Sabotage and the cost of change
- Sabotage and the cost of changeNot doing a very good job......of keeping the confidentiality of your clients. From what you have written, it's easy to guess that there is only one provincial political party that you would even consider doing work for, and it's not the Liberals.Only question is...
- Tags: Operating systems, Servers, I.T, Only Question, Office 07, Sun Microsystems Inc., HP-UX, Unix, Microsoft Office, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- I swear, this is not another Unixfication post
- Photo: Jeff Bonwick and Linus Torvalds I was resolved not to write another Unixfication story until I had more concrete news of Sun and Linus actually working together, and filed it away under "Maybe". Like many of the speculative peices I write, it...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-18
- Robotic car preps for DARPA Challenge
- Paul Perrone, CEO of Perrone Robotics, introduces Tommy Jr., a driverless car powered by Solaris and Java, created for the DARPA Urban Challenge. The vehicle made an appearance on stage at the JavaOne conference last week in San Francisco. Tommy Jr. will navigate using laser "eyes" mounted on the body...
- Tags: Car, DARPA, Sun Solaris, GPS, UNIX, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, JavaOne, robot, Solaris, Servers
- Videos 2008-05-15
- What's wrong at OpenSolaris
- What's wrong at OpenSolarisAgreed as to gaols etcHowever.. look at junknstuff's response above to see how the MS community has chosen to interpret what's going on.Now ask yourself: wouldn't everyone - especially Sun - have been better off if Sun had spent the money bringing Linux along instead of...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- 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
- Consolidation Through Virtualisation With Sun x64 Servers
- IT organisations must complete an almost impossible juggling act. Delivering more services at less cost. Increasing performance, yet managing fewer systems. Buying the right server for the job, yet adapting to change at a moments notice.As this Sun whitepaper explores, the Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Blade modular systems...
- Tags: Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtualization, Sun Solaris, Servers, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Operating Systems, Processors, Hardware, Software, Storage, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2008-05-13
- Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse
- Last week, I blogged about the possible future of a unified UNIX GPLv3 operating system "mother distro" comprising the merged source code of the Solaris and Linux kernels (and presumably, the source code of other vendors as well) and related GNU stack with associated tools and applications. ...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., SCO Group Inc., GPLv3, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- How does OpenSolaris fare for Ed Tech?
- How does OpenSolaris fare for Ed Tech?RE: How does OpenSolaris fare for Ed Tech?The biggest thing would be that OpenSolaris has is the name "Sun" behind it. When some people IT departments included see "Linux" they see just a community of programmers and hackers, corporate and basement dwelling. Sun is...
- Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Nexenta
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- Unixfication II
- Unixfication IIUnixification II: The AwakeningSure, I think that some unixification is good for the sake of interoperability but I like having different OSs to rely on--call them niche or whatever but there is even a place for Windows...the only non-Unix OS left.I don't want just one open source OS, no...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Unixfication II, Linux, OpenSolaris, kernel, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
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