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Sun Wins Top Tech Innovation Award
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Sun's DTrace trouble-shooting software won top prize in the Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards competition. It's the second time in three years that Sun took the top award. From the article, which also names a dozen other winners: 'Where most debugging takes place as software is being developed, DTrace analyzes problems with systems that are in production — running a company's database, say, or executing stock trades. It does this with a process called "dynamic tracing," which enables a developer or systems administrator to run diagnostic tests on a system without causing it to crash. Before DTrace, such tests often took days or weeks to reproduce the problem and identify the cause. With DTrace, performance problems can be tracked to their underlying causes in hours, even minutes.'"
Sun's DTrace trouble-shooting software won top prize in the Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards competition. It's the second time in three years that Sun took the top award.
Sounds like they've put those HP founders to work, instead of just parading them around in t-shirts.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
A tech award from them would surely be an insult to any true geek!
Yes, much like personal hygiene or the concept of heterosexuality.
If Sun was good at hyping their products, their stock would be trading above $5/share.
To paraphrase the old saw... That award and $2.95 ought to cover a cup of coffee - er, I mean, a cup of Java!...
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
my article Boxing in the LLRing, which despite positive responses Slashdot rejected in favor of Roland Piquepaille's daily column
... provides multiple control flows ... a high level of abstraction ... useful to web app developers.
That's because Mr. Piquepaille has learned how to make his spam look like a slashdot post, while you seem to have learned how to make your slashdot post look like spam.
an amazing debugger
See what I mean? You should have said some stuff about nanoparticles and asked whether snot has an impact on global warming!