* Posts by david_evans

3 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Aug 2012

Tell me, professor, what is big data?

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Protein shape

Just to say that peptides are marvelous, but the shape of a protein has a not-very-well-understood effect. So maybe that project will be a huge exercise in collecting not terribly helpful info AGAIN. Good luck with that though.

Three years since his Sun gobble, what hath Ellison wrought?

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Apples with apples

All good and interesting. One aspect to add is how Oracle would have performed without Sun, and/or if someone else had purchased Sun. Plus the ol' tax write-off of previous losses...

So a successful acquisition in terms of Oracle shareholder value. The world is changing yet again, will Oracle adapt again? If yes, that will be extremely impressive...

AMD engineering another Opteron-like leap

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How can you write this without mentioning ARM?

Nuff said...?