Entries tagged with 'Sun'

Links of interest for 27 Jan 2010 - 14 Feb 2010:

eWEEK’s Top 25 Technologies Of The Decade - Including Solaris 10 - "During the latter half of '00s, Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 sat at the leading edge of operating system technologies, with unique capabilities that include Containers virtualisation, Dtrace system instrumentation and the ZFS file [...]

Links of interest for 6 Jan 2010 - 26 Jan 2010:

Internal Memo: Sun CEO Jon Schwartz to Staff - I didn't noticed this (I got the original), but these guys did: a little hidden message in Jon's memo. Note how it doesn't apply to the whole memo. Seems consistent with his efforts as a [...]

Links of interest for 5 Nov 2009 - 2 Dec 2009:

J is for JVM: Why the ‘J’ in JRuby? | Engine Yard Blog - A good explanation on why the guys behind jRuby like the J, aka Java Virtual Machine, part of JRuby. Interesting performance figures too when compared to the standard Ruby, especially considering [...]

Links of interest for 17 Oct 2009 - 2 Nov 2009:

ZFS Deduplication : Jeff Bonwick’s Blog - Deduplication has just made its way into ZFS and Jeff provides a great explanation on what dedup it and why you need it, along with details on how to use it with ZFS.
ZFS for MacOS X - One [...]

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 26 Sep 2009 - 14 Oct 2009:

xkcd - Static - Hee hee hee
Guest Account Bug in Snow Leopard Causes Data Loss - Ooops. Just as well I disabled this account a long time ago.
MySQL ex-CEO tells EU to let Oracle buy Sun - Some very valid points here. Lets hope [...]

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 [...]

If you’re not in the US, you’re not likely to see this advert Oracle are placing on the front page of the Wall Street Journal…

Looks like Sun is going to be left in limbo for just a little bit longer now. The EU have decided they need to investigate the acquisition in more depth and cite a very good reason…
The commission has to examine very carefully the effects on competition in Europe when the world’s leading proprietary database [...]

Links of interest for 28 Aug 2009 - 1 Sep 2009:

Apache.org Compromised via stolen SSH keys - Best bit: "… we restored from a ZFS snapshot to a version of all our websites before any accounts were compromised." Now how's that for an advertisement for Solaris and ZFS?
Oracle is likely to sell sun’s hardware business [...]