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- Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?
- Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?Jboss would complement Websphere?Really? Is that like how MySQL is going to complement Oracle's flagship product? Doesn't make sense to me, these products are in direct competition with eachother.I think the biggest threat to RedHat's business model is CentOS. Smart...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Storage, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., X64, Linux, Sun T2, server
- Discussion threads 2009-05-15
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- Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!
- Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!Um, that should be good enough I guessntIntel needs to spec a backplaneIt would be nice if Intel would speck out an 8x backplane that processor modules could plug into. That way multiple manufactures could build compatible modules and backplanes.With...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, Servers, Network technology, Nehalem-EX, transistor, processor, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-27
- Kickfire: Released for all the right reasons, but with the worst timing?
- Kickfire: Released for all the right reasons, but with the worst timing?TPC-H numbers, not TPC-C numbersTPC-C is an OLTP benchmark, while TPC-H is a DSS/DW benchmark. myKickAsSQL PlanOracle proposes to buy Kickfire, lock stock and Query Processing Barrel.Invites entire company to expenses-paid weekend to discuss the plan ...1. Customers...
- Tags: Databases, OPEN SOURCE, Kickfire, Oracle Corp., MySQL, database
- Discussion threads 2009-04-22
- Hooray! Oracle acquisition of Sun makes perfect sense
- Hooray! Oracle acquisition of Sun makes perfect senseYou said ..."Open source, too, may take a hit, as I don?t expect Unbreakable Linux to remain Oracle?s point on the OS arrow. Solaris will be the prime OS, meaning Oracle?s channel pipeline to Red Hat will shrink."As one WHO has a TON...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Linux, Corporate law, Sun Solaris, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., Oracle acquisition, Hooray, acquisition, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- Dell aims to poach Sun customers
- Dell aims to poach Sun customersPower Consumption ?????????? - NTNTRE: Dell aims to poach Sun customersThe study would be worth more if they would compare a Sun T2 server like the T5440 to the R900. Comparing current Dell servers to 5 year old Sun servers is ridiculous.RE: Dell aims...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Servers, Dell Computer Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-14
- 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
- Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en route
- Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en routeThank You Scott MacNealy!In this case you need to look at what the CEO wanted. He wanted to give away the Brand for money. It was only going to give a one time payday, no matter how big.Most CEOs would go...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., following-The
- Discussion threads 2009-04-06
- News to know: IBM-Sun; Microsoft; SaaS; Green tech
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM's Sun deal setting: Talks reportedly near collapse NYT: I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems  Mary Jo Foley: New...
- Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Larry Dignan, Green Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Health Care, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., Wireless, Palm OS, Wi-Fi, Vertical Industries, Software As A Service (SaaS), Benefits, Healthcare, Wireless And Mobility, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem
- Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem"...but losing everything is like the sun going down on me...Ahhh what a great song...Ok Rudy.Sure IBM can't compete with Sun what with their stock about $100 more per share.My advise is DON'T WAIT! SGI and Sun took a beating from Linux because they...
- Tags: Network technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Nehalem, T2
- Discussion threads 2009-04-04
- 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,...
- Tags: T2, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-04-04
- P570 vs T5220
- P570 vs T5220IBM 1, Sun - all the restOne point in the "favor" of IBM is the way you can get "pay as you go" pricing. IBM would routinely provide DOUBLE the CPUs/Memory that you paid for - they would be in the chassis and unconfigured. If you wanted more...
- Tags: Network technology, IBM Corp., Sun T5440, P570, IBM Power 570 4-x 4.7, Sun Microsystems Inc., T5220, IBM POWER, GHz T2
- Discussion threads 2009-03-12
- P570 vs T5220
- As part of JesperFrimann's challenge with respect to the options available to a company with two aging p690s running Sybase, he suggested that: It's 256 threads per box on the T5440 versus 16 on the p550, and furthermore the power 550 supports shared pool virtualization.. so it...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., J2Ee, Processors, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Programming Languages, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- RDBMS license costs and Open Source
- A comment by frequent contributor JesperFrimann last week caused me to take a closer look at licensing practices among major commercial database vendors other than Microsoft. All three of the big guys (Oracle, IBM, and Sybase) follow the same basic sales model: ...
- Tags: Processor, Oracle Corp., Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Pricing Strategy, RDBMS, IBM Corp., Pricing, Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Databases, Marketing, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- The deed is done: now are you better off?
- Scenario 1: Congratulations! The virtual "you" has done the deed: the last HP RP8440 - always a relative piece of junk because designed for Itanium and sold with the incompatible PA-8900 - is gone, and a couple of nice shiny new Proliants have taken its place....
- Tags: T2, Sun Sparc, HP Compaq ProLiant, Deed, Linux, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- The deed is done: now are you better off?
- Scenario 1: Congratulations! The virtual "you" has done the deed: the last HP RP8440 - always a relative piece of junk because designed for Itanium and sold with the incompatible PA-8900 - is gone, and a couple of nice shiny new Proliants have taken its place....
- Tags: T2, Sun Sparc, HP Compaq ProLiant, Deed, Linux, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgradeAnecdotal evidenceThis is the Nth time you use this particular setup of the two 690s as a basis for comparison between AIX/Power and Solaris/Whatever. As stated in another post the problems with that system has nothing to do with AIX but with design.I can counter...
- Tags: Blade servers, Databases, Enterprise software, Recruitment & Selection, Storage, PCI, P690, T5440, Oracle Real Application Cluster
- Discussion threads 2009-03-04
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade
- Lets start with yesterday's low end example: you have a Sun 490 from a few years ago (4 x 1.8Ghz USIV, 16GB, 2 x 146GB) that's still under support. It works, but it's obsolete - and support costs are outrageous: your predecessor signed up for full 24 x 7 Gold...
- Tags: Stored Procedure, Disk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sybase Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Simple cost/benefit and the systems upgrade
- Lets start with yesterday's low end example: you have a Sun 490 from a few years ago (4 x 1.8Ghz USIV, 16GB, 2 x 146GB) that's still under support. It works, but it's obsolete - and support costs are outrageous: your predecessor signed up for full 24 x 7 Gold...
- Tags: Stored Procedure, Disk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sybase Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Rearview madness and Wintel customer spin
- Rearview madness and Wintel customer spinHyperthreading?Murph, could you explain the differences between real threading, the long abandoned hyperthreading used before multi-cores on intel chips and those new coolthreads?And maybe tell us why they are so desirable that you see intel go that way as well?Hyperthreading was essentially a poor-mans multicore...
- Tags: Processors, Nicolas Carr, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., coolthread, HyperThreading, multi-core, Wintel
- Discussion threads 2009-02-11
- So what can Sun do?
- So what can Sun do?I have a couple of suggestions.Now doubt you wont like them, Murph, but here they are anyway:- Work with Microsoft to get Windows Server running on SPARC. Why? There are a lot of small businesses on Windows servers for whom the migration to Sun hardware is...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., Murph
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
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