* Posts by Richard

6 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Feb 2008

Salesforce.com pulls plug on Sun's flagship Unix servers

Richard
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what about salesforce.com's famed CSR?

Replacing a couple of F25's with Hundreds of Dell servers? hum, lets think about the environmental impact of that for a moment!

Still if the F25's go back to Sun more than 95% is recovered and less than 5% will enter the waste stream!

Green-loving California may dodge utility bill bullet

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PG&E rebates on Sun Technology

Not sure if you followed the story but PG&E were so impressed with Niagara they offer rebates of up to $1000 per server, I understand the ONLY one on the market to receive this....'by their fruits shall ye know them'

Sun's Niagara 3 will have 16-cores and 16 threads per core

Richard
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HP-UX beats Solaris? Get a life

Over 15million downloads of OPEN Solaris and counting, the X64 version is already open... IBM and DELL have both signed OEM agreements on Solaris....

where have you been??

Sun to lose lunch money on JavaFX

Richard
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5 billion devices

With 5 billion Java devices on the planet today, not sure its worth writing FX off...

Yes Sun may be slow, its always the problem for an engineering company who won't launch pre-beta sw as FCS

Office 2007 fails OXML test

Richard
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No Shit Sherlock

What! Microsoft doesn't conform to a standard ( even one they bribed and corrupted and entire process to deliver )... elementary my dear Watson, a convicted predatory monopolist cannot change its spots...

Scientists warn on climatic 'tipping points'

Richard
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Climate Change is a symptom

a symptom of over consumption. Happens to be hydrocarbons today

water tomorrow? We need to move to a market based on services not stuff..

BTW I'm suprised at the lack of intellectual debate here...and anyone who quotes from the 'Great Global Warming Swindle' should be sectioned under the mental health act as a threat to society