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- New Sun CEO a millionaire--and then some
- New Sun CEO a millionaire--and then someHey, if he can plug the leaks he's worth every penny.He has taken on what I would think is the toughest job opening in IT right now.Good ole boy mentality still strongIt's sad that the good ole boy mentality is still stong. Swartz...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Sun Microsystems Inc., Swartz
- Discussion threads 2006-04-27
- Comparing code bases
- The Swartz analysis I discussed Monday reflected an attempt to compare the Red Hat 5.2 source to other code bases including those for SCO OpenServer. To the extent that the documents we have describe the methodology it appears to have consisted of two phases: first an automated review looking...
- Tags: Swartz analysis, Coherent, Mark, Williams, Swartz
- Blog posts 2005-07-22
- SCO: spin and counterspin
- SCO: spin and counterspinNow we know why...SCO has always avoided showing proof.What are these people thinking?How longcan you keep a lawsuit going, without offering any definiative proof?Missing the point"Improperly derived code" isn't relevant. Either the text in question meets the requirements for copyright infringement or not, and if it's...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Swartz, SCO Group Inc., Davidson, SCOx
- Discussion threads 2005-07-18
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- OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld Experiences
- I've been running from meeting to meeting at IDG World Expo's OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/CloudWorld Conference at the Moscone Center in the heart of beautiful San Francisco (see OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld.) Here are my initial impressions of the event: The event is significantly smaller than any I...
- Tags: IDG World Expo, Event, Vendor Area, Data Centers, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- As Sun's world turns (worse): The latest
- As Sun's world turns worse: The latestSun will be fineas long as M$ is keeping their long nose out of Sun's businesss.RE: As Sun's world turns worse: The latestAside from the language, I fully agree with your point, and so should every other SUN shareholder..or stakeholder. SUN execs have created...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Financial accounting, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., shareholder
- Discussion threads 2009-04-08
- The Seattle P-I bites the dust
- I'm from Seattle, so this story caught my attention. For quite some time, Seattle had two daily papers, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Times. The Post-Intelligencer, or the P-I as it's called, is actually Seattle's oldest business and has been publishing papers for 146 years. No...
- Tags: Student, News, Seattle, Seattle P-I, Portals, Web Technology, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Making the case for green IT
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., technology executives discuss the motives behind going green. Jim Swartz, chief information officer of Sybase, says smaller and more energy-efficient technology is cost-effective. Rob Ober, an LSI fellow, says the issue is more complicated: IT managers can buy a more efficient machine...
- Tags: Green IT, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, technology, green, IT, energy, efficient, cost, datacenters, mobile
- Videos 2008-09-19
- Remembering Apple's fizzled buyout
- Looking at Microsoft's hostile takeover move for Yahoo, brings back memories of the time when Apple management sought its own buyout. But the corporate "saviors" had cold feet. In the summer and fall of 1995, Apple executives were in a state of siege: sales of new Mac...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., Desktops, Financial Accounting, Hardware, Finance, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- The further conflicts of Deborah Platt Majoras
- Seems that the conflicts of interest that FTC chair Deborah Platt Majoras carries about in her briefcase go deeper than I realized. You may recall that two privacy groups called for her recusal from considering the Google-DoubleClick merger based on the fact that her husband is a partner at the...
- Tags: Partnership, FTC, Business Structures, Mortgages, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Finance, Capital Structures, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?
- I rarely get e-mail from the USA Today's Byron Acohido who from time to time interviews me for my opinions on tech. But today, Acohido drew my attention to a story that he has co-authored with Jon Swartz under the headline FTC under fire as credit bureaus sell consumers'...
- Tags: ZIP Code, Bureau, Database Company, FTC, E-mail, Government, Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Sun shows 2U 16-core Barcelona server with FSB1600
- After last week's launch of Sun's 2U 16-core Intel Tigerton server last week, Sun followed up with an AMD Barcelona version last night at AMD's Barcelona launch. Sun kept the same compact 2U footprint while keeping all the features. So far, no other Server vendor has...
- Tags: Processor, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Barcelona, Memory, Server, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., 2U, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Top 25 responses to Sun's JAVA move
- Top 25 responses to Sun's JAVA moveJonathan's STRANGEST move ever!Even, if JAVA seems really that important, why not changing it to SUN-J for example?. They could have announced the plan as: ... the era has changed, what used to be SUN-W (aka Sun W-orkstation) .. now become SUN-J (Sun J-ava)......
- Tags: Programming languages, Sun Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Java, ticker
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
- MySQL shies away from GPLv3, free version
- MySQL shies away from GPLv3, free versionwolf in sheep's clothingWhat walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, guess what its a duck.MySQL and RedHat are wolves who think they can get by, by disguising as sheeps. However it doesnt take long before the wolf behavior...
- Tags: Databases, driver issue, MySQL, open source, GPL, GPL V3, duck, GPLv3
- Discussion threads 2007-01-03
- Why does tech customer service suck?
- Even after several reads, I still get a rise out of Jon Swartz "Technology troubles set off tantrums, tears and tirades" piece in yesterdays USAToday.Jon notes that a survey of 2,511 Americans polled by Harris Interactive and software company RightNow technologies revealed that "about 85% of those polled said theyve...
- Tags: General, trends
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- The role of IT
- In reviewing some of the comments on my Sun Ray chapter headings series I became even more convinced than before that the single biggest differentiator between the data processing view of computing and the Unix view derives from the difference on role conceptualization for IT. As a Unix guy...
- Tags: Desktops, information technology, frog, desktop, PC
- Blog posts 2006-08-10
- T2000 Blog Reviews
- Back in December of last year Sun's Jonathon Swartz offered a free T2000 demo to anyone willing to test the machine and then blog about it in public. I thought it might be fun, therefore, to take a look at some of the resulting blogs. To do it I...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., T2000 Blog Reviews
- Blog posts 2006-04-24
- Sun layoffs hit high-end server group
- Sun layoffs hit high-end server groupWhere's Murph?Where's Murph telling me this is the greatest thing since sliced bread?If it were any another computer company, you'd see Swartz out there dancing with glee offering to hire all the displaced workers.it's time that Sun GPLs all it's softwareand peoples will sturt buying...
- Tags: Construction, Workforce management, Outsourcing, Free trade, server, Sun Microsystems Inc., layoff
- Discussion threads 2006-04-07
- Sun considers GPL 3 license for Solaris
- Sun considers GPL 3 license for SolarisSolaris with no DRM? Goof for hobby machines..But not in any business that WANTS and needs SECURE content.Well, with Linus being a tuuurd right now, Sun might gain some mindsharewith this. But, they should go straight GPL3 to avoid confusion. Imagion if some...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Digital media, GPL, GPL 3, Sun Solaris, Linus, digital-rights management, Linux, GPL 2, Sun Microsystems Inc., kernel
- Discussion threads 2006-01-30
- Meth addicts use Vonage in identity theft ring
- That's meth. A lot of it. A scourge of, and for, our times. Pix from the Douglas County, Ga. Meth Task Force website. A troubling piece in today's USAToday describes how a small group of methamphetamine addicts in Edmonton, Alberta used Vonage to facilitate their identity theft pursuits.Identity theft,...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-12-15
- ZFS vs. Apple X-RAID
- ZFS vs. Apple X-RAIDQuestionsWhy use RAID 0+1? I and many of my storage friends prefer 1+0. Mirrored stripes seems more simple than striped mirrors.Is SATA competitive with SCSI? What are the transfer rates?Would you jump on the ZFS bandwagon in a production environment? I would do the customary "don't buy...
- Tags: Storage, ZFS, RAID, Apple Inc., Serial ATA, Apple X-RAID, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-12-08
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