Entries tagged with 'IBM'

I’m really starting to look forward to Sun being taken over by Oracle, especially if their current advertising battle is an indication of things to come.
In the on-going battle between Oracle and IBM, comes the latest TPC-C benchmark results which pit a 9 rack Sun/Oracle T5440/F5100 configuration (TPC-C results) against IBM’s monster 76 rack POWER [...]

Links of interest for 2 Sep 2009 - 24 Sep 2009:

IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office - Welcome to the party IBM. Sun did this years ago. 99% of people don't use half the functionality in MS Office anyway.
Linus calls Linux ‘bloated and huge’ - … and it's suffered on average a 2% decrease in performance [...]

Links of interest for 15 Mar 2009 - 24 Mar 2009:

Internet Archive to unveil massive Wayback Machine data center - Oooo, and it#039;s in a Sun Modular Datacentre (aka Project Blackbox) running Solaris 10 and ZFS.
The ‘IBM buys Sun’ story | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com - Interesting point of view on what#039;s happening with these [...]

I was just checking the Sun share price this morning and nearly had a heart-attack. I noticed the share price had jumped significantly in pre-market trading:

I glanced across to the sidebar in Google finance and it’s awash with stories about IBM being in talks to buy Sun Microsystems. They all reference the same [...]

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008:

2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to… ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently.
Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on [...]

Today…
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.
Now that’s got to be an indication of how good Solaris 10 is, and how much demand it’s getting now. This agreement has just effectively opened up Sun’s [...]

Links of interest for 29 May 2007 - 7 July 2007:

Sun eyes supercomputing glory - If Sun can get this out before IBM’s BlueGene/P, we may be in for a good supercomputer battle.
GNU Free Software License Gets Upgrade to Meet Modern Demands -
Germany adopts “anti-hacker” law; critics say it breeds insecurity - Hmmm, I [...]

Links of interest for 17 May 2007 - 25 May 2007:

ZFS Auto Completion for Bash - Now you can get ZFS auto completion for Bash with this script.
Promising antispam technique gets nod - Great idea, but it’s biggest caveat is the fact it requires both sending and receiving mail servers to have this configured and [...]

I was a little surprised and saddened to read that DARPA has decided to pump US$250m into Cray and US$244m in IBM for them to work on DARPA’s next high performance computing initiative - their “Petascale” program.
There was a lot of bidding and vying for the investment and it came down to 3 final contenders [...]