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The Miricale That is Kobayashi
Friday, July 4th, 2008Some might say Babe Ruth was the greatest athlete in modern history. Others might argue Willie Mays or Hank Aaron. Few hockey fans would dispute Wayne Gretzky. Here in the United States we can often be short sighted about our sports heroes (can you say World Series). Globally there […]
Project Caroline Video
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Here is the slide deck for this presentation.
Project Caroline Overview
Sunday, April 13th, 2008Project Caroline Overview
Sun’s Caroline is Yet Another Cloud that goes by different names (grid,utility, SaaS). In either case it looks very interesting. Currently it is defined as a project for startups and researchers that want to do Internet based SaaS offerings.
Cloud Computing Vendors A to Z
Thursday, March 20th, 2008I HAVE A REVISED VERSION OF THIS POST…
Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised)
Atlantawag vs. Valleywag
Thursday, February 28th, 2008The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness.
Ezekiel 25:17
Recently, Marc Fleury took objection to some negative personal […]
Sun in the Clouds with Diamond
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Sun turns to Neil Diamond for Amazon utility ‘killer’
Now Sun wants to do something similar via Caroline.
The Register has uncovered a presentation from Sun distinguished engineer Bob Scheifler that details the new project. Apparently, Scheifler will unveil Caroline at the upcoming JavaOne conference in May (although, Sun may in fact provide the first peek at […]
IT Management Podcast #005 - The Night John Slept on a Cray
Monday, February 11th, 2008IT Management Podcast #005 - The Night John Slept on a Cray
Yesterdays Observations on Sun/MySQL
Thursday, January 17th, 2008There were quite a few interesting blogs yesterday on the MySQL aquisition by Sun. Here is a short list of interteting comments from some of my favorite bloggers:
Mark Hinkle raises the question could a JBOSS EnterpriseDB be next.
Coté points out that the MySQL aquistion puts Sun in a good position for cloud computing.
Matt Asay […]
Sun Buys MySQL for Around 1 Billion
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Sun to Buy MySQL
Sun will pay approximately $800 million in cash for all of MySQL’s stock and assume about $200 million in options.
Sun and Drupal Getting Cozy
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Sun donates SunFire X4200 for Drupal.org
Sun has been active in the Drupal community and recently gave presentations at DrupalCon Barcelona and BADCamp as well as sponsoring both events. At the DrupalCon Barcelona conference, Scott Mattoon attended the scaling the Drupal.org infrastructure session (pdf). Once Sun learned of our challenges in scaling Drupal.org they were […]
OpenSolaris Running on IBM zSeries
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Sun Microsystems gets into virtualization with xVM
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Sun Microsystems gets into virtualization with xVM
Solaris vs AIX (2)
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007Solaris vs AIX (2)
Cut to the bottom line: what you have is Sun’s pursuit of the second generation Unix ideas embedded in Plan9, in which the network is the computer and all resources are accessible by everyone while IBM is still selling pre-Unix VM ideas for protecting one application from another on the same hardware.
Solaris/SPARC […]
Customer choice is the differentiator –Says IBM and Sun.
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz and IBM hardware group chief Bill Zeitler agreed that offering customers more choices is the bottom line. Bill used IBM’s dealing with Linux as a good example, noting that, when IBM wanted to go to Linux, many were concerned about its effects on IBM’s OS products. […]
Things that make me go Huh #004?
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Sun and IBM hold Teleconference to announce that IBM to Distribute Solaris
IBM and Sun announced that IBM will distribute the Solaris operating system (OS) and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and Blade Center servers. Sun President and CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, and IBM Senior Vice President and Group Executive, Bill Zeitler, jointly […]
IBM and SUN OS Agreement - Announcement Today 8/16/07
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Sun Microsystems and IBM Hold Teleconference to Announce Software Agreement
WHEN and WHERE: The teleconference will take place Thursday, August 16, at 11:15 a.m. Pacific, 2:15 p.m. Eastern. Call 877-917-3611 (U.S. toll free) or 517-308-9264 internationally (passcode - brown). A live audio stream link will also be available at http://sun.com/presskits/2007-0816/. A question and answer session will […]
