Posts by Dave14 posts • joined Thursday 26th April 2007 21:58 GMT
Posted Monday 30th March 2009 20:53 GMT
In Rumour: Sun pink slips to fly today
I still think Sun makes some of the better kit out there. I'd use Solaris over just about anything else if it really mattered. Sorry to see such an innovative company take it on the chin.
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 22:12 GMT
In Cisco pitches new world server order
So, let me get this straight. Cisco, who operates in a high-margin networking hardware business wants to muscle in on IBM/HP/Dell/Sun who operate in a cut-throat low-margin world (at least for HW) with an integration play?
Got to give them credit for trying to monetize their customer base by hurting the other players, but in the process there's a good chance they'll expose their own cozy market economics to increased scrutiny and increased competition from those same players.
Posted Friday 9th January 2009 00:33 GMT
In Ballmer reacquaints Microsoft with its PC past
Oballmer can't be both wrong and right, now can he? I'm constantly amazed by the assumption of competence and strategy given Microsoft when confusion and mis-stepping are obviously what's going on.
It's worse than that Jim, they're dead..
Posted Friday 3rd October 2008 14:49 GMT
In How the fate of the US economy rests on a Dell workstation
Economics is the most inexact of sciences. In what other field can you be wrong 100 percent of the time, get the Nobel prize and be utterly irrelevant to the vast majority of living beings on the planet? (Oh, I just described Al Gore, didn't I.. Oops!)
Seriously, economics makes sociology look like the hardest of sciences by comparison. I'd love it if the current environment elevated the field and caused investment (ha!) in quantitative methods and allowed accountability to be introduced into economic models.
Posted Monday 15th September 2008 17:24 GMT
In Climate change blows out eco-boss's record bid
If it happens this week it's "weather" if it happens for the next 10 years it's climate. Don't let him blame a bad weather day on anything but chance. To call it climate change is just rubbish.
Posted Friday 29th August 2008 13:39 GMT
In Larry Ellison gets huge pay rise
Customer of mine was asked if he liked Oracle. Answer was "No, not really, but the CEO says we can't switch because he doesn't want Larry mad at him."
Now that's power..
Posted Monday 14th July 2008 23:41 GMT
In IBM's eight-core Power7 chip to clock in at 4.0GHz
I believe Sun just announced some SPARC kit that has benchmark superiority over IBM P575 and 590. Doesn't need plumbing on the roof either.
SPARC's dead, yeah, right.
Posted Monday 14th July 2008 18:35 GMT
In Raptor and Eurofighter go head to head
Ah, but this all sounds so familiar. To those who spout "visualize world peace" I reply, yes, and ignore world history. Every time there's a lull in world conflict (believe it or not, now's such a time) there's a tremendous uproar on the expense of weaponry. Fast forward a few years or decades and it's always been prudent to remember how to fight and have the means to do so.
So, make choppers, not war is a great slogan but will help little when the next warlord armed with oil money decides his kingdom is too small. Times change, people don't. We'll always need this stuff. Fatalistic? Maybe. Historically accurate? you bet.
Posted Thursday 19th June 2008 05:30 GMT
In Sun shrinks Constellation for HPC run
One reason is that Sun has so many commercial customers with large installations that would likely rank in the top 500 but they aren't focused on HPC, only on their work. It's a huge bit of work qualifying a system for the list - not much profit in that.
I would say Sun does a terrible job getting their large customers interested in the list.
Posted Saturday 8th March 2008 07:15 GMT
In Sun's 256-thread African journey begins next month
Interesting seeing all the blathering about the death of Sun and how Solaris/SPARC sucks, etc. Every few years this reaches fever pitch as Sun comes out with yet another nice box that addresses customer needs in some new way.
Is VF the right tool for every workload? No. Is X86 the right architecture for every workload? No. Certain workloads will simply run better elsewhere. No one's forcing or even suggesting that Niagara family machines are best in all cases.
The Niagara 1 boxes were a real eye opener for lots of Sun customers in that they gave many applications incredible throughput and at a reduced size and power footprint. The Niagara 2 boxes were even more performance in the same size box.
Nice to see Sun trying something different from the other lemming box makers.
Posted Thursday 17th January 2008 20:33 GMT
In Meet the world's premier open source vendor - Sun
Sun was already the largest single contributor to OSS before the MySQL buy. If it wasn't for OpenOffice/Java/Solaris my goose would have been cooked long since.
What I can't understand is why so many Linux/OSS fanboys hate Sun. Talk about biting the hand..
-Mr Open
Posted Saturday 25th August 2007 03:41 GMT
In Adobe exec updates open source group think
Interesting that folks feel free to take whacks at companies that promote OSS like Sun while ignoring IP monarchies like Apple and Adobe for keeping their stuff totally proprietary.
To say this is a double standard is obvious, but what's behind it? Even MS is making OSS noises these days. User experience is a sacred cow for some, but these companies are hiding behind that cow.
Posted Friday 27th April 2007 16:24 GMT
In MPAA veteran Jack Valenti dead at 85
Hollywood could have owned the content explosion that is the web today. By their actions and inactions, they have relegated themselves to the trash heap of history. Too bad the MPAA, under Mr Valenti, failed to grasp this.
So long Jack, we knew ye all too well..
