Could this be more subtle then we all realise? Maybe the big O is just turning the screws on SAP. Think about it. SAP is "in bed" with MySQL AB via the transfer of MaxDB. Now if SAP were thinking of pushing MySQL as the db of choice to seperate themselves from Oracle, what better way to scupper them - buy the transaction engine technology (of choice) in MySQL.
Remember SAP is the only competition left for Oracle in the Apps space.
All the comments about how powerfull shell scripting is, miss an important point:
The vast majority of shell scripts rely on other commands to do alot of the work. For example, how many shell scripts use awk, sed, find, cut, head, tail and so on. Without all the "external" commands the shell is much less useful.
In addition, there is considerable overhead due to the fork/exec of these external commands.
With languages like perl/python/ruby you may have to actually write a little more but it all executes within a single process.
I was thinking about the same thing. Microsoft are bandying this "viral" term about with the intent that uninformed people will go from "viral" to "virus" and thus assume all Open Source/Free Software is riddled with virii. We need turn there own word(s) against them. How many virii are developed using Mircosoft products? Visual Basic should be considered viral software as it allows the development of virii. Outlook is a viral platform as it allows the execution of virii
I agree, from a cursory reading of the patent description it seem awfully like Norsk Data's Sintran III OS that I used way back in 1982/3. There was both a real time and timeshared environment that actually ran as a rt process. The database system, SIBAS II was a rt process but the client were timeshared. It was actually quite a cool OS for it's day and the orange color of the cabinets matched really well with my Orange guitar amp and speakers:-)
slightly off topic but: I believe Tim Berners-Lee did some very early work on what is now the W3 under Sintran.
Anyways, once again the lack of expertise has allow another patent that should not be!
Seeing as someone already mentioned Datametrics I might as well put in a (shameless) plug for our product, RAPS. Check out http://www.foglight.com for more details. Again, it's aimed at the enterprise level so it's not cheap but it has OS level monitoring as well as Sybase and Oracle agents, Netscape and Apache WWW server monitoring.
There already exists a linux performance mailing list. To subscribe to this list, send an email to the following address with "subscribe" in the body of the message: linux-perf-request@www-klinik.uni-mainz.de
My collegue, Rich Pettit has done alot of work to add perf stats to the/proc filesystem so let not reinvent all this stuff.
In a past life I worked for a consortium that provided binary compatibility testing across vendors machines that used the Motorola 88k processor. If they passed our tests the idea was that their code was "guaranteed" to run on all member vendors platforms that we had also certified. That meant that even if the vendor did their port on platform A they had to support it on platform B, no excuses! Will the card vendors who produce UDI drivers be willing to guarantee they will work on all UDI platforms?
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How long before they get a C&D from the M$ lawyers for using Microsoft in the domainname.
I dont think parody will be an excuse this time.
Could this be more subtle then we all realise? Maybe the big O is just turning the screws on SAP. Think about it. SAP is "in bed" with MySQL AB via the transfer of MaxDB. Now if SAP were thinking of pushing MySQL as the db of choice to seperate themselves from Oracle, what better way to scupper them - buy the transaction engine technology (of choice) in MySQL.
Remember SAP is the only competition left for Oracle in the Apps space.
But then again, maybe I'm just paranoid!
All the comments about how powerfull shell scripting is, miss an important point:
The vast majority of shell scripts rely on other commands to do alot of the work. For example, how many shell scripts use awk, sed, find, cut, head, tail and so on. Without all the "external" commands the shell is much less useful.
In addition, there is considerable overhead due to the fork/exec of these external commands.
With languages like perl/python/ruby you may have to actually write a little more but it all executes within a single process.
I was thinking about the same thing. Microsoft are bandying this "viral" term about with the intent that uninformed people will go from "viral" to "virus" and thus assume all Open Source/Free Software is riddled with virii. We need turn there own word(s) against them. How many virii are developed using Mircosoft products? Visual Basic should be considered viral software as it allows the development of virii. Outlook is a viral platform as it allows the execution of virii
I agree, from a cursory reading of the patent description it seem awfully like Norsk Data's :-)
Sintran III OS that I used way back in 1982/3.
There was both a real time and timeshared environment that actually ran as a rt process.
The database system, SIBAS II was a rt process but the client were timeshared. It was actually quite a cool OS for it's day and the orange color of the cabinets matched really well with my Orange guitar amp and speakers
slightly off topic but: I believe Tim Berners-Lee did some very early work on what is now the W3 under Sintran.
Anyways, once again the lack of expertise has allow another patent that should not be!
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Seeing as someone already mentioned Datametrics
I might as well put in a (shameless) plug for our product, RAPS. Check out http://www.foglight.com for more details. Again, it's aimed at the enterprise level so it's not cheap but it has OS level monitoring as well as Sybase and Oracle agents, Netscape and Apache WWW server monitoring.
There already exists a linux performance mailing list.
/proc filesystem so let not reinvent all this stuff.
To subscribe to this list, send an email to the following address
with "subscribe" in the body of the message:
linux-perf-request@www-klinik.uni-mainz.de
My collegue, Rich Pettit has done alot of work to add perf stats to the
In a past life I worked for a consortium that provided binary compatibility testing across vendors machines that used the Motorola 88k processor. If they passed our tests the idea was that their code was "guaranteed" to run on all member vendors platforms that we had also certified. That meant that even if the vendor did their port on platform A they had to support it on platform B, no excuses!
Will the card vendors who produce UDI drivers be willing to guarantee they will work on all UDI platforms?