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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.'"

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  1. cardboard inspiration by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. Re:Strace?! by pete6677 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If Sun was good at hyping their products, their stock would be trading above $5/share.

  3. Yeah, that and $2.95... by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 2, Funny

    To paraphrase the old saw... That award and $2.95 ought to cover a cup of coffee - er, I mean, a cup of Java!...

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