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Sun Wins Top Tech Innovation Award

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-with-hardware dept.

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. Yes, ladies and gentlemen.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    innovation DOES NOT equate to financial success. Adding on to an innovator and charging a cheaper price is the way to go....*cough**Micro*cough**cough*soft**bullshit*** cough*Dell**cough***all**cough**PC***coughmakers** *bullshit.

    1. Re:Yes, ladies and gentlemen.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      You are really annoying with all that "*cough*" crap. You should probably shut the fuck up.

  2. Yet by The_Abortionist · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yet the slashdot crowd continues to dump on Sun...

    Looks like many slashdotters prefer the copying of ideas and source (arguably) of Linux as opposed to real innovation.

    --
    Linux violates 235 Microsoft patents.
  3. Re:Strace?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Albanach wrote:
    >
    > Like it or not, dtrace is a huge innovation - it's also open sourced and coming really soon to an operating
    > system near you. I think anyone involved in major application deployments is going to welcome dtrace and
    > think it worthy of the award.

    Dtrace is an innovation? Maybe for Java. But gdb has been around for decades. This Wall St Journal award is pure marketing hype that capitalizes on the technological ignorance of their readership. Sad that Slashdot's readers and editors are buying in to the hype as well. But, hey, we all know that Sun is great at hyping their products... Java being a case in point.