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See subject-line above, & this data:

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:7u5zusUtjUIJ:https://thesource.ofallevil.com/presspass/events/novlaunch/events.mspx+%2299.999%22+and+%22NASDAQ%22+and+%22Ken+Richmond%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

NASDAQ

Spokesperson: Ken Richmond, Vice President of Software Engineering
Situation:

Largest U.S. electronic stock market
Replacing aging Tandem systems
Wanted to update system for real-time trade summary, risk management and broker clearing

Solution:

MDDS: Market Data Dissemination System
5K txs/second, 100K queries/day
Running on SQL Server 2005 with database mirroring for high availability

Benefits:

Enterprise availability
Scalability to handle 8 million new rows of data per day
Lower total cost of ownership
Real-time reporting
Developer agility

KEYWORD, LISTED AS A BENEFIT NO LESS, is "Enterprise Availability", by Ken Richmond of NASDAQ no less (who also was quoted as saying Windows Server 2003 + SQLServer 2005 did the job for NASDAQ PERFECTLY) here:

WIKIPEDIA "HIGH AVAILABILITY" DEFINITION PAGE (which lists 99.999% no less) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability [wikipedia.org]

Need more?

"ENTERPRISE AVAILABILITY"/"HIGH AVAILABILITY" definitions (from various sources):

"for the high availability enterprise servers (99.999% availability)" -> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/omar-gadir/8/162/219

"Device techniques for high availability For years, enterprise network equipment providers strived to deliver 99.999% availability which is the standard major telecommunications companies deliver. This type of reliability is desirable and it s expected when it comes to phone service. If enterprise networks are to support IP phones, they too must deliver similar availability" -> http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:kMTHFHnbIpwJ:www.alcatel-lucentbusinessportal.com/support/includes/doclink.cfm%3Fid%3D7369+%22Enterprise+Availability%22+and+%2299.999%25%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

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"We saw an early demonstration of Snapshot Isolation and knew this was the solution we needed to run queries against real-time data without slowing the delivery of trading data. It has worked perfectly for us" - Ken Richmond, vice president for software engineering, market information systems at NASDAQ.

FROM -> http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=49271

As far as the word "PERFECT"?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfect [merriam-webster.com]

perfect

Main Entry:

1perfect

1 a: being entirely without fault or defect

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The terms PERFECTLY and ENTERPRISE AVAILABILITY? They BOTH equate to 99.999% (the "Fabled '5-9's'" , of uptime)... period!

APK

P.S.=> Enoy... the proof's all here, as well as in my other postings on this subject, & completely legitimate + verifiable... apk

See subject-line above, & this data, _Sprocket_, you troll

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:7u5zusUtjUIJ:https://thesource.ofallevil.com/presspass/events/novlaunch/events.mspx+%2299.999%22+and+%22NASDAQ%22+and+%22Ken+Richmond%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

NASDAQ

Spokesperson: Ken Richmond, Vice President of Software Engineering
Situation:

Largest U.S. electronic stock market
Replacing aging Tandem systems
Wanted to update system for real-time trade summary, risk management and broker clearing

Solution:

MDDS: Market Data Dissemination System
5K txs/second, 100K queries/day
Running on SQL Server 2005 with database mirroring for high availability

Benefits:

Enterprise availability
Scalability to handle 8 million new rows of data per day
Lower total cost of ownership
Real-time reporting
Developer agility

KEYWORD, LISTED AS A BENEFIT NO LESS, is "Enterprise Availability", by Ken Richmond of NASDAQ no less (who also was quoted as saying Windows Server 2003 + SQLServer 2005 did the job for NASDAQ PERFECTLY, which Sprocket your fellow troll REFUSES to define that term for us in this thread as well, vs. what is quoted below in regards to "PERFECTLY") here:

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"We saw an early demonstration of Snapshot Isolation and knew this was the solution we needed to run queries against real-time data without slowing the delivery of trading data. It has worked perfectly for us" - Ken Richmond, vice president for software engineering, market information systems at NASDAQ.

FROM -> http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=49271

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WIKIPEDIA "HIGH AVAILABILITY" DEFINITION PAGE (which lists 99.999% no less) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability [wikipedia.org]

Need more?

"ENTERPRISE AVAILABILITY"/"HIGH AVAILABILITY" definitions (from various sources):

"for the high availability enterprise servers (99.999% availability)" -> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/omar-gadir/8/162/219

"Device techniques for high availability For years, enterprise network equipment providers strived to deliver 99.999% availability which is the standard major telecommunications companies deliver. This type of reliability is desirable and it s expected when it comes to phone service. If enterprise networks are to support IP phones, they too must deliver similar availability" -> http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:kMTHFHnbIpwJ:www.alcatel-lucentbusinessportal.com/support/includes/doclink.cfm%3Fid%3D7369+%22Enterprise+Availability%22+and+%2299.999%25%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

So please, _Sprocket_:

Would you define the terms PERFECTLY and ENTERPRISE AVAILABILITY please?

(They BOTH equate to 99.999% uptime... period!)

APK

P.S.=> Why did you refuse to define the word "PERFECT" or "PERFECTLY" over in that thread -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1290967&cid=28584687 , _Sprocket_? Hmmm?? Maybe because you shot your loud mouth off spouting words you now have to eat? You ran like the troll you are, & it served you right... nicest part is? I do get that "last laugh", on YOU

"NASDAQ does not mention MDDS anywhere on their website that I could find. Please find a page served by nasdaq.com that mentions they even sell MDDS to anyone, I could find no mention of anyone who buys or receives the MDDS service anywhere." - by k10quaint (1344115) on Friday July 03, @05:19PM (#28575205)

Well, then HERE YOU ARE (this is what made your fellow troll, SPROCKET, take off like a scared little girl, because it shows 99.999% uptime/Enterprise Availability levels from MDDS @ NASDAQ):

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:7u5zusUtjUIJ:https://thesource.ofallevil.com/presspass/events/novlaunch/events.mspx+%2299.999%22+and+%22NASDAQ%22+and+%22Ken+Richmond%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us [74.125.47.132]

NASDAQ

Spokesperson: Ken Richmond, Vice President of Software Engineering
Situation:

Largest U.S. electronic stock market
Replacing aging Tandem systems
Wanted to update system for real-time trade summary, risk management and broker clearing

Solution:

MDDS: Market Data Dissemination System
5K txs/second, 100K queries/day
Running on SQL Server 2005 with database mirroring for high availability

Benefits:

Enterprise availability
Scalability to handle 8 million new rows of data per day
Lower total cost of ownership
Real-time reporting
Developer agility

KEYWORD, LISTED AS A BENEFIT NO LESS, is "Enterprise Availability", by Ken Richmond of NASDAQ no less (who also was quoted as saying Windows Server 2003 + SQLServer 2005 did the job for NASDAQ PERFECTLY, which Sprocket your fellow troll REFUSES to define that term for us in this thread as well, vs. what is quoted below in regards to "PERFECTLY") here:

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"We saw an early demonstration of Snapshot Isolation and knew this was the solution we needed to run queries against real-time data without slowing the delivery of trading data. It has worked perfectly for us" - Ken Richmond, vice president for software engineering, market information systems at NASDAQ.

FROM -> http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=49271 ----

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WIKIPEDIA "HIGH AVAILABILITY" DEFINITION PAGE (which lists 99.999% no less) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability [wikipedia.org]

Need more?

"ENTERPRISE AVAILABILITY"/"HIGH AVAILABILITY" definitions (from various sources):

"for the high availability enterprise servers (99.999% availability)" -> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/omar-gadir/8/162/219 [linkedin.com]

"Device techniques for high availability For years, enterprise network equipment providers strived to deliver 99.999% availability which is the standard major telecommunications companies deliver. This type of reliability is desirable and it s expected when it comes to phone service. If enterprise networks are to support IP phones, they too must deliver similar availability" -> http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:kMTHFHnbIpwJ:www.alcatel-lucentbusinessportal.com/support/includes/doclink.cfm%3Fid%3D7369+%22Enterprise+Availability%22+and+%2299.999%25%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us [74.125.47.132]

APK

P.S.=> How you were modded up to +5, after all of your mistakes here? Boggles the mind... actually, lol,

"Now that your pathetic attempt to conflate NASDAQ trading system uptime with MDDS uptime has been dispelled" - by k10quaint (1344115) on Friday July 03, @05:19PM (#28575205)

You're once again, trying to put words in my mouth, I NEVER STATED... not once! In my VERY FIRST POST, I said this, verbatim:

NASDAQ has maintained the "fabled '5-9's" of 99.999% uptime on Windows Server 2003 + SQLServer 2005 (in failover clusters) since late 2005, acting as the official dissemination system of official trade data

FROM HERE (for others' reference) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1290967&cid=28571315

(Which IS what I stated it was, I NEVER ONCE SAID IT RAN ANYTHING BUT THAT, despite your trolling crap placing words into my mouth I never uttered, lol!)

The quote trading data system is run by another program (they doubtless have millions into it, & it works, no reason to change)... but, that quote trading data system does NOT run the reporting to customers + end users for NASDAQ does it? No... it does, what IT does, & that is IT...

Does the TIBCO middleware custom in-house app for NASDAQ that runs the shop floor quote data, also do the reporting? NO.

(I.E.-> No 1 single program "does it all")

Well, Ken Richmond of NASDAQ (VP of market system development) says it runs "PERFECTLY" for them... care to define what PERFECTLY means? Your fellow troll SPROCKET will do ANYTHING in this thread to avoid defining that term, as it will PROVE 99.999% uptime of MDDS to he & others, lol!

Also? More data on THAT account (99.999% uptime in NASDAQ's MDDS system)?

Ok:

NASDAQ

Spokesperson: Ken Richmond, Vice President of Software Engineering
Situation:

Largest U.S. electronic stock market
Replacing aging Tandem systems
Wanted to update system for real-time trade summary, risk management and broker clearing

Solution:

MDDS: Market Data Dissemination System
5K txs/second, 100K queries/day
Running on SQL Server 2005 with database mirroring for high availability

Benefits:

Enterprise availability
Scalability to handle 8 million new rows of data per day
Lower total cost of ownership
Real-time reporting
Developer agility

KEYWORD, LISTED AS A BENEFIT NO LESS, is "Enterprise Availability", by Ken Richmond of NASDAQ no less (who also was quoted as saying Windows Server 2003 + SQLServer 2005 did the job for NASDAQ PERFECTLY)

WIKIPEDIA "HIGH AVAILABILITY" DEFINITION PAGE (which lists 99.999% no less) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability
Need more?

"ENTERPRISE AVAILABILITY"/"HIGH AVAILABILITY" definitions (from various sources):

"for the high availability enterprise servers (99.999% availability)" -> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/omar-gadir/8/162/219

"Device techniques for high availability For years, enterprise network equipment providers strived to deliver 99.999% availability which is the standard major telecommunications companies deliver. This type of reliability is desirable and it s expected when it comes to phone service. If enterprise networks are to support IP phones, they too must deliver similar availability" -> http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:kMTHFHnbIpwJ:www.alcatel-lucentbusinessportal.com/support/includes/doclink.cfm%3Fid%3D7369+%22Enterprise+Availability%22+and+%2299.999%25%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

(Note my keyword SEARCH term? "Enterprise + Availability"? This is ALL what came up almost, as evidence as t

See my subject-line, & this data in the URL below, RAMMS+EIN (of all people, I think YOU will like it... a LOT):

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1290967&cid=28587301

See there, I think you will like it...

ESPECIALLY XEROX (which does do a HIGHER transactions-per-day amount than even MDDS @ NASDAQ & at 99.999% uptime (it's official trade data dissemination system, which DOES pull 99.999% since Mr. Ken Richmond states it runs PERFECTLY for them, & has noted it gains ENTERPRISE AVAILABLITY for NASDAQ alao) has, by ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE (100's of thousands per day, vs. NASDAQ reporting system doing 100,000 queries per day)) XEROX truly is the classic example, & there ARE a few others, like THE MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING COMPANY, + more...

Heck, I will post it here for your reference, specifically on NASDAQ also:

NASDAQ

Spokesperson: Ken Richmond, Vice President of Software Engineering
Situation:

Largest U.S. electronic stock market
Replacing aging Tandem systems
Wanted to update system for real-time trade summary, risk management and broker clearing

Solution:

MDDS: Market Data Dissemination System
5K txs/second, 100K queries/day
Running on SQL Server 2005 with database mirroring for high availability

Benefits:

Enterprise availability
Scalability to handle 8 million new rows of data per day
Lower total cost of ownership
Real-time reporting
Developer agility

KEYWORD, LISTED AS A BENEFIT NO LESS, is "Enterprise Availability", by Ken Richmond of NASDAQ no less (who also was quoted as saying Windows Server 2003 + SQLServer 2005 did the job for NASDAQ PERFECTLY)

WIKIPEDIA "HIGH AVAILABILITY" DEFINITION PAGE (which lists 99.999% no less) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability
Need more?

"ENTERPRISE AVAILABILITY"/"HIGH AVAILABILITY" definitions (from various sources):

"for the high availability enterprise servers (99.999% availability)" -> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/omar-gadir/8/162/219

"Device techniques for high availability For years, enterprise network equipment providers strived to deliver 99.999% availability which is the standard major telecommunications companies deliver. This type of reliability is desirable and it s expected when it comes to phone service. If enterprise networks are to support IP phones, they too must deliver similar availability" -> http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:kMTHFHnbIpwJ:www.alcatel-lucentbusinessportal.com/support/includes/doclink.cfm%3Fid%3D7369+%22Enterprise+Availability%22+and+%2299.999%25%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

(Note my keyword SEARCH term? "Enterprise + Availability"? This is ALL what came up almost, as evidence as to what THAT term means)

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"The move from large mainframe computers to SQL Server 2005 and Intel-based servers is something of a milestone in the industry. For years, we used large mainframe computers because of their reputation for reliability" - Ken Richmond, vice president for software engineering, market information systems at NASDAQ.

"The fact that we can move mission-critical applications from large mainframe computers to SQL Server 2005 and Intel-based servers shows how both Microsoft and Intel are creating enterprise-grade solutions." - Ken Richmond, vice president for software engineering, market information systems at NASDAQ.

"We saw an early demonstration of Snapshot Isolation and knew this was the solution we needed to run queries against real-time da

"Now if you can show me where it notes what they're talking about beyond "high performance technology", we might be able to clear this up. I'm especially interested where it mentions Microsoft products. Or even MDSS." - by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Friday July 03, @08:41PM (#28576591)

I am right here, "better data", per what you requested (& much to YOUR regret, little troll), even though you avoid SIMPLE quetions when I ask them (like YOU defining the word PERFECTLY for us, lol, why is it you avoid THAT? "Inquring minds want to know", lmao):

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:7u5zusUtjUIJ:https://thesource.ofallevil.com/presspass/events/novlaunch/events.mspx+%2299.999%22+and+%22NASDAQ%22+and+%22Ken+Richmond%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

NASDAQ

Spokesperson: Ken Richmond, Vice President of Software Engineering
Situation:

Largest U.S. electronic stock market
Replacing aging Tandem systems
Wanted to update system for real-time trade summary, risk management and broker clearing

Solution:

MDDS: Market Data Dissemination System
5K txs/second, 100K queries/day
Running on SQL Server 2005 with database mirroring for high availability

Benefits:

Enterprise availability
Scalability to handle 8 million new rows of data per day
Lower total cost of ownership
Real-time reporting
Developer agility

KEYWORD, LISTED AS A BENEFIT NO LESS, is "Enterprise Availability", by Ken Richmond of NASDAQ no less (who also was quoted as saying Windows Server 2003 + SQLServer 2005 did the job for NASDAQ PERFECTLY)

WIKIPEDIA "HIGH AVAILABILITY" DEFINITION PAGE (which lists 99.999% no less) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability

Need more?

"ENTERPRISE AVAILABILITY"/"HIGH AVAILABILITY" definitions (from various sources):

"for the high availability enterprise servers (99.999% availability)" -> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/omar-gadir/8/162/219

"Device techniques for high availability For years, enterprise network equipment providers strived to deliver 99.999% availability which is the standard major telecommunications companies deliver. This type of reliability is desirable and it s expected when it comes to phone service. If enterprise networks are to support IP phones, they too must deliver similar availability" -> http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:kMTHFHnbIpwJ:www.alcatel-lucentbusinessportal.com/support/includes/doclink.cfm%3Fid%3D7369+%22Enterprise+Availability%22+and+%2299.999%25%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

(OH, I think THAT will do, for now... lol!)

"You want to prove your point? Come up with better data." - by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Friday July 03, @08:41PM (#28576591)

I did, per YOUR requests for EXACTLY what you wanted... so, why don't YOU come up with better data & some answers to my questions in my P.S. below? Quit evading that question, where I ask you to DEFINE PERFECTLY for us all...

"And as an aside - I don't have to put words in your mouth." - by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Friday July 03, @08:41PM (#28576591)

QUESTION: Did you, or did you not, ask me if I thought I was telling about the quote trading data system @ NASDAQ in this thread or not? Because in my 1st post, I definitely said "The official trade data dissemination system",

"Now if you can show me where it notes what they're talking about beyond "high performance technology", we might be able to clear this up. I'm especially interested where it mentions Microsoft products. Or even MDSS." - by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Friday July 03, @08:41PM (#28576591)

I am right here, "better data", per what you requested (& much to YOUR regret, little troll):

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:7u5zusUtjUIJ:https://thesource.ofallevil.com/presspass/events/novlaunch/events.mspx+%2299.999%22+and+%22NASDAQ%22+and+%22Ken+Richmond%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

NASDAQ

Spokesperson: Ken Richmond, Vice President of Software Engineering
Situation:

Largest U.S. electronic stock market
Replacing aging Tandem systems
Wanted to update system for real-time trade summary, risk management and broker clearing

Solution:

MDDS: Market Data Dissemination System
5K txs/second, 100K queries/day
Running on SQL Server 2005 with database mirroring for high availability

Benefits:

Enterprise availability
Scalability to handle 8 million new rows of data per day
Lower total cost of ownership
Real-time reporting
Developer agility

KEYWORD, LISTED AS A BENEFIT NO LESS, is "Enterprise Availability", by Ken Richmond of NASDAQ no less (who also was quoted as saying Windows Server 2003 + SQLServer 2005 did the job for NASDAQ PERFECTLY)

WIKIPEDIA "HIGH AVAILABILITY" DEFINITION PAGE (which lists 99.999% no less) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability

Need more?

"ENTERPRISE AVAILABILITY"/"HIGH AVAILABILITY" definitions (from various sources):

"for the high availability enterprise servers (99.999% availability)" -> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/omar-gadir/8/162/219

"Device techniques for high availability For years, enterprise network equipment providers strived to deliver 99.999% availability which is the standard major telecommunications companies deliver. This type of reliability is desirable and it s expected when it comes to phone service. If enterprise networks are to support IP phones, they too must deliver similar availability" -> http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:kMTHFHnbIpwJ:www.alcatel-lucentbusinessportal.com/support/includes/doclink.cfm%3Fid%3D7369+%22Enterprise+Availability%22+and+%2299.999%25%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

(OH, I think THAT will do, for now... lol!)

"You want to prove your point? Come up with better data." - by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Friday July 03, @08:41PM (#28576591)

I did, per YOUR requests for EXACTLY what you wanted... so, why don't YOU come up with better data & some answers to my questions in my P.S. below? Quit evading that question, where I ask you to DEFINE PERFECTLY for us all...

"And as an aside - I don't have to put words in your mouth." - by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Friday July 03, @08:41PM (#28576591)

QUESTION: Did you, or did you not, ask me if I thought I was telling about the quote trading data system @ NASDAQ in this thread or not? Because in my 1st post, I definitely said "The official trade data dissemination system", & THAT is MDDS... what I have been speaking of, all thru this thread... NOT WHAT YOU SAID/ASKED.

(Learn to read &, a YES or NO answer will do nicely here on yo

"Now if you can show me where it notes what they're talking about beyond "high performance technology", we might be able to clear this up. I'm especially interested where it mentions Microsoft products. Or even MDSS." - by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Friday July 03, @08:41PM (#28576591)

I am right here, "better data", per what you requested (& much to YOUR regret, little troll):

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:7u5zusUtjUIJ:https://thesource.ofallevil.com/presspass/events/novlaunch/events.mspx+%2299.999%22+and+%22NASDAQ%22+and+%22Ken+Richmond%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

NASDAQ

Spokesperson: Ken Richmond, Vice President of Software Engineering
Situation:

Largest U.S. electronic stock market
Replacing aging Tandem systems
Wanted to update system for real-time trade summary, risk management and broker clearing

Solution:

MDDS: Market Data Dissemination System
5K txs/second, 100K queries/day
Running on SQL Server 2005 with database mirroring for high availability

Benefits:

Enterprise availability
Scalability to handle 8 million new rows of data per day
Lower total cost of ownership
Real-time reporting
Developer agility

KEYWORD, LISTED AS A BENEFIT NO LESS, is "Enterprise Availability", by Ken Richmond of NASDAQ no less (who also was quoted as saying Windows Server 2003 + SQLServer 2005 did the job for NASDAQ PERFECTLY)

WIKIPEDIA "HIGH AVAILABILITY" DEFINITION PAGE (which lists 99.999% no less) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability

Need more?

"ENTERPRISE AVAILABILITY"/"HIGH AVAILABILITY" definitions (from various sources):

"for the high availability enterprise servers (99.999% availability)" -> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/omar-gadir/8/162/219

"Device techniques for high availability For years, enterprise network equipment providers strived to deliver 99.999% availability which is the standard major telecommunications companies deliver. This type of reliability is desirable and it s expected when it comes to phone service. If enterprise networks are to support IP phones, they too must deliver similar availability" -> http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:kMTHFHnbIpwJ:www.alcatel-lucentbusinessportal.com/support/includes/doclink.cfm%3Fid%3D7369+%22Enterprise+Availability%22+and+%2299.999%25%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

(OH, I think THAT will do, for now... lol!)

"You want to prove your point? Come up with better data." - by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Friday July 03, @08:41PM (#28576591)

I did, per YOUR requests for EXACTLY what you wanted... so, why don't YOU come up with better data & some answers to my questions in my P.S. below? Quit evading that question, where I ask you to DEFINE PERFECTLY for us all...

"And as an aside - I don't have to put words in your mouth." - by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Friday July 03, @08:41PM (#28576591)

QUESTION: Did you, or did you not, ask me if I thought I was telling about the quote trading data system @ NASDAQ in this thread or not? Because in my 1st post, I definitely said "The official trade data dissemination system", & THAT is MDDS... what I have been speaking of, all thru this thread... NOT WHAT YOU SAID/ASKED.

(Learn to read)

"You're doing a fine enough jo

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:7u5zusUtjUIJ:https://thesource.ofallevil.com/presspass/events/novlaunch/events.mspx+%2299.999%22+and+%22NASDAQ%22+and+%22Ken+Richmond%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

NASDAQ

Spokesperson: Ken Richmond, Vice President of Software Engineering
Situation:

Largest U.S. electronic stock market
Replacing aging Tandem systems
Wanted to update system for real-time trade summary, risk management and broker clearing

Solution:

MDDS: Market Data Dissemination System
5K txs/second, 100K queries/day
Running on SQL Server 2005 with database mirroring for high availability

Benefits:

Enterprise availability
Scalability to handle 8 million new rows of data per day
Lower total cost of ownership
Real-time reporting
Developer agility

KEYWORD, LISTED AS A BENEFIT NO LESS, is "Enterprise Availability", by Ken Richmond of NASDAQ no less (who also was quoted as saying Windows Server 2003 + SQLServer 2005 did the job for NASDAQ PERFECTLY)

WIKIPEDIA "HIGH AVAILABILITY" DEFINITION PAGE (which lists 99.999% no less) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability

Need more?

"ENTERPRISE AVAILABILITY"/"HIGH AVAILABILITY" definitions (from various sources):

"for the high availability enterprise servers (99.999% availability)" -> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/omar-gadir/8/162/219

"Device techniques for high availability For years, enterprise network equipment providers strived to deliver 99.999% availability which is the standard major telecommunications companies deliver. This type of reliability is desirable and it s expected when it comes to phone service. If enterprise networks are to support IP phones, they too must deliver similar availability" -> http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:kMTHFHnbIpwJ:www.alcatel-lucentbusinessportal.com/support/includes/doclink.cfm%3Fid%3D7369+%22Enterprise+Availability%22+and+%2299.999%25%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

"IT managers insist their enterprise management software must be made highly available when its task is to manage highly available services. They ask, "How can I accurately measure service levels in the 99.999% range with IT management tools" -> http://www.fognet.com/HAOV-inforum.html

(OH, I think THAT will do, for now... lol!)

APK

P.S.=> What did Ken Richmond LIST as a benefit up in his list, SpRoCkEt? And, while you are @ it SPROCKET??

Please, DO define the word "PERFECTLY" for us, won't you? Quit avoiding that, as you have constantly here, especially in regards to Mr. Richmond's statement here:

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"We saw an early demonstration of Snapshot Isolation and knew this was the solution we needed to run queries against real-time data without slowing the delivery of trading data. It has worked perfectly for us" - Ken Richmond, vice president for software engineering, market information systems at NASDAQ.

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LMAO - this is FUN, watching this "monkey boy" named "SpRoCkEt" dance, for all the b.s. he has given us dealing with him... by the by? My post?? Back @ +4 INFORMATIVE again (someone is liking what I put out vs. your crap SPROCKET), & it's back on the "FRONT PAGE" here on this site, once more (go! quick!! Get 1 of your "sock puppet" accounts & mod it down again, Sprocket... lol!)... apk

Bob Jacobs, the deputy assistant administrator for public affairs at NASA, says the story's fiction.

(via Phil Plait)

That is an ugly woman.

Hi, If you live in the San Francisco Bay area (including Silicon Valley, home to many geeks), there is a LinkedIn group called âoeSF Bay Area Ivy Plusâ that sends out a monthly newsletter of interesting social networking events put on by the local Ivy Schools and open to other Ivy Plus alumni. You have to be an alum of one of the Ivy Plus Schools on the list e.g. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley or CalTech. (You can argue with the list, but that is beside the point). Here is the link, you must have a LinkedIn account to join the group. http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=42977 It is free to join and since the alumni groups are all non-profit, the events are at cost. Lots of variety of events. In June, they had these type of events: -Meet Eleanor, MITâ(TM)s Solar Car -Bootstrapping a Clean Tech Company -Cocktail hour mixers -Sailing -Hiking I just pick a topic or activity that I like and it gets me out. You can meet folks pretty easily - people typically wear nametags and are friendly since they have a common background of sorts, so. There seems to be to be pretty even gender ratio on average. And definitely lots of bright, interesting folks to talk with - not snooty at all! - just a lot of people who are looking to get out and enjoy themselves. I find I see some familiar faces and some new ones each time, which I like. The age range is pretty wide and depends on the event - from late 20s to early 50â(TM)s. Because there are at least a couple of events I like each month, it gives me something to look forward to. If you are not in the SF Bay Area or aren't from one of the schools, then you can see what your local alumni group has for events each month - and/or even organize some of your own doing things you would enjoy (e.g. a monthly hiking group). The trick is : 1) Get yourself out there, 2) Do something you enjoy, 3) Be friendly and go to have fun and meet people in general, takes the pressure off each encounter 4) Use mouthwash first or bring a mint (sorry, had to throw that in, but you would be surprisedâ¦) Good luck!!

A few things about the story... It starts off linking to the webpages of his "two compadres". The only thing at one website is a link to the TFA, and the other is the homepage of ryandesign. Ryan, of ryandesign.com, works on MacPorts, and coincidentally has the same name as the "MacBook Software Manager at Apple Computer". The phone number he gave (512-796-XXXX) is a Sprint exchange from Austin. When he sent the number for the thief to call, it was the same "512-796-XXXX". Did he send his own number for the thief (the one with the phone, to call), or does his friends phone happen to have the same exchange with the same provider in the sane city? I'm not calling shenanigans on this, I'm just saying... take the story with a grain of salt.

You can read more about Nemertes here, including profiles of their management and employees (including two research analysts):

http://www.linkedin.com/companies/nemertes-research

No, it's spelled correctly. Priacy (as in where people pri into your personal life)is the opposite of privacy.

All kidding aside, networking sites aren't all bad. LinkedIn, for example, would be a good place to check a prospective employee's online presence without having to witness the passing out by the toilet after the bong hits.

We're featuring this video on Data Center Knowledge, but it was shot by Dean Nelson of Data Center Pulse, a relatively new industry group focused on information-sharing between end users (vendors and consultants are excluded). DCP started last fall as a group on LinkedIn, and also has a channel on YouTube with weekly webcasts and some other interesting videos. The group has more than 800 members already.

We're featuring this video on Data Center Knowledge, but it was shot by Dean Nelson of Data Center Pulse, a relatively new industry group focused on information-sharing between end users (vendors and consultants are excluded). DCP started last fall as a group on LinkedIn, and also has a channel on YouTube with weekly webcasts and some other interesting videos. The group has more than 800 members already.

As a result of this discussion, the Association of Former Information Warriors was created.

LinkedIn Group:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=1847393

Blog:

http://aofiw.blogspot.com/

OMG - JP Morgan!

First Clue - Saroj Hariprashad

Second - Jamie Dimon is the CEO of JP Morgan!

I work for one of the top executive search companies in the world and LinkedIn is an indispensable tool.

In the past, headhunting was very much about who you knew, the company's own database, thrashing through newsfeeds, list of associations, etc., and a lot of cold calling. LinkedIn has, in a very short time, topped them all.

LinkedIn provides a headhunter with a database that updates itself and that constantly grows without much effort (each connection who adds a connection "expands" my network). It also gives direct access to top executives and allows the headhunter to read the executive's profile before speaking with him/her.

Through the eyes of the user, indeed, the entry price is a little loss of privacy, but I believe the gains outweigh the losses. A LinkedIn user enters the radar screen of headhunters, allows you to stay in touch with former colleagues and friends, and, who knows?!, lands you a job.

I've been on linked in for the past 5 years.
That's 1/3 of the internet's popular age.
I'd guess that hotmail would disappear before linked in.

Join my Linked In Network.

You can join my linked in network. I'm currently a few contacts away from 7000 members.
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Actually, on LinkedIn, there seem to be many Independent Entertainment Professionals who are 0 degrees away from Kevin Bacon. By giving yourself a creative name (e.g. "Kevin Bacon"), you can be one of them, too.

I guess if you do not give them Microsoft's option, the other side gets pissed off.

In fact a while ago I've created a little script called killie6, when I posted on linkedin group to ask professional opinion about it, many declared it desceptive, violating user's choice, etc, etc.

Microsoft blogger Mitchell Ashley...

Mitchell Ashley is not a Microsoft blogger. He's a blogger who often writes about Microsoft products. Not the same thing.
He's not related to Microsoft, never has been. http://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellashley

Nice, he even has his linked in profile up!!

Actually a new organization is currently being developed for just such a purpose: http://itvolunteersworldwide.org/

Currently there is a LinkedIn group http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1181337 you can go to for more info.

The inclusion of Mike Murray's stance on Prop 8 in TFS is entirely superfluous to the story about Google's amicus brief. According to his LinkedIn profile, Mr. Murray was last employed by Microsoft in 1999. The story really has nothing to do with Microsoft. In fact, aside from a controversial decision in 2005 to withdraw support from a gay rights bill in Washington state, Microsoft has consistently supported anti-discriminatory legislation which is also reflected in their corporate policies as well. They were probably one of the first major corps. that provides domestic partner benefits and includes sexual orientation as part of its anti discrimination and harassment policies.

Wondering why he is not changing his career to management after completing his MBA

The author acctually says that the increase in WOW''s share is probally not due to rising useage rather increase in GamerDNA registrations. He also said that GW has a higher than average users with GamerDNA.

it's a she actually, the article is posted by Michael Zenke but it says at the top "Written by the highly talented Sanya Weathers", which perhaps ought to merit a mention that she worked at EA/Mythic for 6 years

I guess it depends on the web services.

A lot of LinkedIn stuff is in Ruby... over a billion page views a month and growing.

Their Bumper Sticker app alone has huge numbers.

Interesting read here: http://blog.linkedin.com/2008/06/23/web-scalability-practices-bumper-sticker-on-rails/

http://www.linkedin.com/

• Yahoo - mac-dev-jobs
• LinkedIn - Mac Developer Jobs

As to programming rates, it varies with experience and which part of the world you are dealing with. If you are dealing with programmers in the USA, you will have to pay higher rates for programmers working on the East or West coast because the cost of living is higher. Don't expect experienced programmers to work cheap either! An experienced programmer with 5-10 years of experience will start at $50/hour, with a typical rate of $75-$100 depending on project length and difficulty.

Remember, a good experienced programmer will do the job right the first time. An inexperienced programmer will sometimes take several tries to complete that task and the resulting program will be fragile and difficult to maintain.

A quick check for determining programming experience is to get a development estimate for your project specification. Give the programmer a complete project specification (including screen mock-ups) and have them give you a project development estimate. An inexperienced programmer will typically under-estimate the time and difficulty of the project.

If you are developing "general-purpose, scientific programs developed and released as open source", you should check the BioCocoa site to see if your project can leverage work already done there. If you can do the work in Java, the BioJava project is a good place to look for BioTech related libraries.

Another good place to find more information about doing scientific research using Mac OS X is the Mac Research web site.

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Here is a real Richard Rohl for you: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/636/81a

KlaymenDK is better known as Jan Gundtofte-Bruun , and is an IT Specialist at IBM Denmark A/S since 1998. This a photo of him.

He is about to build a new PC, and plans to use FreeBSD, mainly as a quad-core, dual-headed, desktop workstation, but would very much like to be able to play the occasional BZFlag (call him oldschool).

You can also peruse his Amazon profile, etc. What strikes me is that he was apparently involved in the sound department of Festen, a great Danish movie.

KlaymenDK is better known as Jan Gundtofte-Bruun , and is an IT Specialist at IBM Denmark A/S since 1998. This a photo of him.

He is about to build a new PC, and plans to use FreeBSD, mainly as a quad-core, dual-headed, desktop workstation, but would very much like to be able to play the occasional BZFlag (call him oldschool).

You can also peruse his Amazon profile, etc. What strikes me is that he was apparently involved in the sound department of Festen, a great Danish movie.

Reading the tortured history of this case was a real eye-opener. I hadn't really thought about the lengths that some people will apparently go to steal from the community, lie to regulators, and engage in what must have been a very expensive legal fight.

You've got to wonder what the motivation is. Is there really that much money in model train software? Or is this someone who has money to throw at whatever they want?

Dig around a bit... and you find some interesting things.

It seems Katzer and his parnter have made a sizable donation to the University of Oregon in the tune of "$1.25 million for computer labs, software and a technology endowment fund." That's a nice chunk of change to throw around. Where does it come from?

It's interesting to note that Katzer shows up in a number of roles from software development to a model train store. I suspect ongoing concerns are something along the lines of his LinkedIn profile:

Matt Katzerâ(TM)s Summary

KAMIND Associates delivers Microsoft solutions for small business customers since 1998. We solve your IT problems with the following solutions â" eCommerce sites for samll business using Microsoft Commerce Servers, Microsoft Small Business Server and Microsoft Retail Management System (POS) Solutions for specialty retailers. As part of our service model, we work with customers to develop an integrated IT services plan that solves the customers need and results in long term bottom line savings.

That seems pretty straight forward. But there's some other oddities out there. Take this blog entry of a Microsoft manager for example:

Matt Katzer runs an ISV called KAM Industries. They build software for the REALLY big railroads - railroad yard automation, engine automation, that kind of thing. Software that makes really big, heavy stuff move when and where itâ(TM)s supposed to. Matt told me that they also do similar stuff for model railroads â" HO, N, and O-scale stuff. They can completely automate, and simulate very complex setups.

If that werenâ(TM)t cool enough, Matt has built all this on top of Microsoft technologies - .NET Framework, the Compact Framework, WMI (okay, not REALLY MS tech, but it counts), XML, Windows Server 2003, etc.

Eh, what? Is this more than model trains or was Katzer simply exaggerating to impress?

Side note is a comment on the blog:

Matt Katzer was my first manager at Intel and the reason that I moved out to Oregon to work for Intel.

For anyone interested in some more information on this guy, see below for his LinkedIn and MySpace page.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/335/230
http://www.myspace.com/ehrichweiss

Fascinating stuff.

I think the problem may be that you use your name as your internet handle? If Curt Monash is your real name, it's pretty easy to see your web presence and scrapers will have no problem putting your first and last name together, it doesn't even have to be randomly generated in your case.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/curtmonash
http://twitter.com/CurtMonash
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/APY7OA7WIXSJI

I'm sure this actually may be an issue in the future, but how can you stop them from putting X together with Y and generating web pages? We have to leave it up to the likes of Google to purge these sites from their results.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/259/617

Really? Personally, I find that kinda hard to believe, ya know?

What's next, using MySpace and LinkedIn to promote political campaigns?

You know he's at Nvidia now:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/slusallek

FYI, Obama's main "web 2.0 consultant" is Chris Hughes, one of Mark Zuckerberg's roommates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hughes_(Facebook)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6XmOYliJpiM

http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidall

I guess it's Lame or I'm just punting something, but on Linked-In there is this Group called FOSS Professionals, it's got alot of People in it, Check it out. Maybe you can find some skills there. Obviously the people there link on which Project's they have worked on. Link of Shame : http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/77237/586E590F6308

From http://www.linkedin.com/in/espiegel

Eric Spiegel -- Washington D.C. Metro Area

CEO, XTS, Inc.

Current
* CEO at XTS, Inc.
* Freelance Columnist (Self-employed)

Past
* Director, Customer Services at Agentsmith
* Consulting Manager at Extreme Logic
* Vice President at Sequoia Software
* Sr. Consultant at Ciber
* Sr. Programmer at Integrated Health Services
* Senior Engineer at Rite Aid
* Programmer Analyst at USF&G
* Consultant at American Management Systems (AMS)

Education
* Johns Hopkins University
* University of Pittsburgh

Summary
- Executive experienced in technology start-up operations, such as sales, marketing and raising capital.
- Leader of top-performing software development and professional service organizations.
- Manager skilled in all aspects of information technology management, including business planning, project management, customer services, quality initiatives and staffing.
- Consultant with strong background in selling, planning and delivering enterprise software implementations.
- Columnist providing articles on information technology management topics.

Eric Spiegel's Specialties: executive management, project management, team management, sales, product marketing, freelance writing, start-up operations, outsourcing, business process improvement

Of course he didn't mention the company name...
But... Funny thing about social networks these days. LinkedIn. I bet most people on slashdot are in his network. He's only 3 hops from me. So it's really easy to see all the places he has worked.
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1953893
I've added them to my list of 'don't work for these companies'.. :P

"I'll be interested in discussing a bigger question, though: 'When will hardware graphics pipelines become sufficiently programmable to efficiently implement ray tracing and other global illumination techniques?'. I believe that the answer is now, and more so from now on! As GPUs become increasingly programmable, the variety of algorithms that can be mapped onto the computing substrate of a GPU becomes ever broader.

As part of this quest, I routinely ask artists and programmers at movie and special effects studios what features and flexibility they will need to do their rendering on GPUs, and they say that they could never render on hardware! What do they use now: crayons? Actually, they use hardware now, in the form of programmable general-purpose CPUs. I believe that the future convergence of realistic and real-time rendering lies in highly programmable special-purpose GPUs."

Following up on my previous post about the debate between David Kirk and Philipp Slusallek in 2006 (link ... apologies to Dr. Slusallek, Slashdot truncated his name).

According to Dr. Slusallek's LinkedIn profile he's currently a "Visiting Professor at NVIDIA".

The performance of Dr. Slusallek's real-time raytracing engine at only 90 MHz was quite impressive: "In contrast we have recently implemented a prototype of a custom ray tracing based graphics card using a single Xilinx FPGA chip. The first results show that this really simple hardware running at 90 MHz and containing only a small fraction of the floating point units of a rasterization chip already performs like a 8-12 GHz Pentium 4. In addition, it uses only a tiny fraction of the external memory bandwidth of a rasterization chip (often as low as 100-200 MB/s) and therefore can be scaled simply by using many parallel ray tracing pipelines both on-chip and/or via multiple chips.".

It seems there may be room for more than one opinion about the future of raytracing and gaming at nVidia.

Beginning with a PhD from Caltech, he was a systems engineer on the NASA Mars Scout, Mars Surveyor, Mars Sample Return and various Discovery Missions. [...] He was the Principal Scientist for Orbital Sciences Corporation, Project Leader for the BlastOff Lunar Lander project with Jim Cameron and AeroAstro's miniature spacecraft project. He has managed and completed projects for NASA, the US Air Force Research Lab, Microcosm Incorporated, and SpaceX Corporation. Until recently, he held the position of lead engineer for Jeff Bezos' Blue Origins Crew Capsule.

Our Program Manager is Tomas Svitek, who has a PhD from Caltech, was a systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the NASA Mars Scout, Mars Surveyor, Mars Sample Return and various Discovery Missions. He was the Principal Scientist for Orbital Sciences Corp., Project Leader for the BlastOff Lunar Lander project and AeroAstro's miniature spacecraft project. He has managed and completed projects for NASA, the U.S. Air Force Research Lab, Microcosm Inc., and SpaceX Corp.. He was lead engineer for Jeff Bezos' Blue Origins crew capsule and has long run his own space consulting company in California.