Apple has already tacked the transition of RISC to CISC when the took OSX from PowerPC to x86. An self sourced 64-bit SOC would allow them to no longer be dependent on the Intel CPU monopoly for their laptop, desktop, server offerings.
Have you tried the virtual trackpad on VMWare View on either Android or iOS? IMHO, its as good as a any laptops trackpad or pointing device. I personally still need a real (bluetooth) keyboard as I find using the virtual keyboard a real PITA to use...
When companies stopped buying big iron proprietary RISC servers to put in their datacenters and started putting commodity x86 servers instead, UNIX stagnated. Linux which was seen as a toy prior took advantage of this.
If you look at VMWare as the next evolution of the OS, it makes more and more sense. A couple of years back, BEA (now Oracle) released Liquid VM, an OS-less JVM that ran as a virtual machine in ESX.
Just about all professional services firms (such as Accenture, Deloitte, Wipro, CSC, etc) hires English and Psychology majors straight out of college, send them to a 2-4 week training program (where the new hires spend more time socializing and drinking than learning) and you have instant IT developer...
Oil/filter change, air filter change, fuel filter change, maybe some new spark plugs, a bottle or two of Techron fuel injector cleaner (don't add more than one per tank of gas though and do it after the fuel filter change), and make sure those tires are properly inflated. Many cars are not properly maintained and mileage suffers (by as much as 10-20%).
I too use K9. It's good stuff powered by Blue Coat's web filtering technology, which we use at my place of work. Works well for what it's intended HTTP traffic... It does not protect IM, peer-to-peer, or other stuff that doesn't work over HTTP.
This is one of the reasons why I opted to go Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005 when I built out my PVR earlier this month.
Why didn't Oracle simply buy one of the groups...
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That already respin from the RHEL srpms? Seems like they now have to build a community for "Unbreakable". Shouldn't be difficult given who they are, but why start from scratch?
Interesting strategy though. Wonder if this is payback for JBoss?
Definitely don't think that RH will go into bankruptcy any time soon. They've got a rich product stack and plenty of customers. The only thing their really lacking is an enterprise database platform. May RH should consider buying Sybase or the Informix stack from IBM so they could go head to head with Oracle;)
Here's my take on why Workstation is still a viable product, it's not meant to be a server virtualization product. We use Workstation for development and testing. Development because it allows us to deliver a consistent developer image to 30+ developers across the globe, and testing because each image contains all the tools required to run unit and system tests on our code base. We also don't need to worry about what the developers are using as a host OS (they could be running Win2k, WinXP, or Linux). We use ESX for server virtualization, meaning we have ESX running on big 4 CPU boxes which run our portal 24x7. For these purposes, both products work great. I've noticed that Workstation supports newer OSs than either GSX or ESX which is good for people using Workstation to test different OSs.
I worked at a company that only used IBM Thinkpads way back when and went through a bunch of different models (the last 2 were a 760XL and 600). I really liked them back then. I then worked at a startup where we bought Toshiba Tecra 8100s which I also considered really nice. Now working for a company that uses Dells and what an absolute POS my corporate Latitude D600 is. Sure it's fast (with a 2Ghz Dothan and 2GB of RAM), but ergonomically it sucks (the keyboard is by far the worst laptop keyboard I've ever used, the pointer/touchpad are near unusable). Luckily I have a docking station at work and use a full size keyboard and mouse...
That being said, I'm in the market for a new personal laptop... I'm gonna avoid Dell from my recent experience. How are the new Levono Thinkpads?
I've gotta agree with kicha. VMWare has a huge head-start over any of their competitors (Microsoft and Xen) especially in the enterprise space. And you gotta think that they've got plans to integrate the hardware based virtualization that AMD and Intel are promising. I use Workstation every day for my development environment and it blows my mind that it's all virtual and runs pretty close to native speeds, but it's a toy compared to the ESX that we use to deploy our portal.
It all depends on the application. I remember 11+ years ago I was a developer on the NY state tax processing project. We were using Sun Sparc 20s connected to Kodak 923D scanners to scan tax returns at a very high rate (something like 72 pages per minute duplex), the barcode information obtained from the tax returns was used to move the returns into a workflow process and the images were copied from a local filesystem over to massive (at the time) fileservers. HD's at the time (even the fastest SCSI drives available) were not able to keep up with the scanner writing the barcode info and images, our custom app processing the information, and moving the images to the filesystem. Our only alternative was to use a "RAM" disk. We stuffed our Sparc 20s will all the memory they could hold (512MB) and created a 256MB filesystem in RAM. We used a thirdparty ramdisk software product for the first release which ran on SunOS 4, but Sun actually implemented a pretty slick ramdisk with Solaris 2 which we used the following year. Benchmarks at the time found that these ramdisks were some 20+x the speed of HDs of that era. I'm suprised that the Gigabyte card is only 6x faster than a HD. You'd figure it'd be more, but I guess they are using SATA as the means through which to get to the "drive", so it may be hitting some physical limitation based on the interface... I wonder if it'd be more cost effective and faster to stick an extra 4GB of memory onto the motherboard and setup a ramdisk device similar to what we had on the Sparcs... Sure it wouldn't survive reboot, but it should only be a hair slower than reading and writing from RAM itself!
A little off topic, but anybody find it interesting that all the next generation consoles will use IBM processing power? Considering the number of consoles sold compared to PCs, this has got to piss both Intel and AMD off...
Been watching Amiga's spiral downward for YEARS...
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As a onetime owner of a A2000, which I got as a HS graduation present back in 89' - which I kept current through tons of cash in upgrades (1MB Agnus, de-interlacer, SCSI hard drive controller, 68040 accelerator and a bunch o' 32MB memory which was a lot circa the early 90s, and upgrading the Kickstarts through 3.1), I finally succumb to evil (Intel) empire in the mid 90s selling the albatros for a brand spanking new PPro 200 with Windows 95 which ran a bazillion Mhz faster, ran the software I worked with, and most importantly played the latest and greatest games.
I still have fond memories of the Amiga. Who can forget the elegant OS and GUI, AmigaBasic (care of Microsoft), AREXX (care of IBM?), multimedia capabilities beyond any of it's peers (again circa late 80s yearly 90s), and a clean/usable CLI/Shell which rivaled anything UNIX had at the time. And how can you forget that this platform was capable of running the original VideoToaster (for those who had enough cash, unfortunately not me) which brought "broadcast quality" video editing to the masses, had fully capable authorware via AmigaVision, and ran all the best 3D packages (Lightwave, Imagine, Caligari, Sculpt 3D). And last but not least, the games. Sure none took advantage of HAM, but those custom chips were far and away superior to anything that the PC or Mac could offer at the time. And most ran smooth as silk on the plain jane 7Mhz 68000 processor which power-ed/s most Amigas.
But to see the Amiga evolution has been comical and sad. Now that we're on 10+ years of companies not having any idea of what to do with the Amiga, I think it's lost any relevance it had left in the alternative platform space.
In the multimedia niche, the Amiga now needs to contend with PCs and Macs which have kept pace with technology improvements. While the Amiga revolutionized the industry when introduced, does anybody really believe it can do it again in this arena?
In the video niche, I think NLE killed this niche for the Amiga a while ago.
In terms of cool factor, there have been a couple of attempts (BeOS comes to mind) to build a better mousetrap, but I think Linux fills this niche now.
And finally in the games niche, the consoles took this niche and will likely never give it back to PCs.
So again I ask the question of relevance. I honestly hope that the new OS owners release a product, don't get me wrong, but it's just a matter of time before the inevitable fade into obscurity... Unless Microsoft buys it for their XBox II;)
Oracle and DB2 (and let's not leave out Sybase and Informix to boot) both support Linux. Maybe not 30+ CPUs, but the software is definitely there, just need a kernel that supports massive SMP.
Don't know about commercial CAD/CAE packages, but my guess is if they're not there yet, they will be within a year or two.
Tuxedo and MQ are also available for Linux, arguably the industry leaders in TPM and middleware messaging. And in terms of app server technologies, all the vendors now have J2EE implementations that's as well supported on Linux as any other platforms.
SAP also is available on Linux. PeopleSoft too.
I believe that embedded (the kind used for shop floor control) is growing at an enormous rate (it's displacing real UN*Xs so fast as to render them irrelevant soon).
And unless you're an airline...
I used to be a UN*X bigot, but I've come to the conclusion (like IBM, Sun, and just about every other commercial software company) that Linux growth at the expense of proprietary UN*X is not necessarily a bad thing.
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Apple has already tacked the transition of RISC to CISC when the took OSX from PowerPC to x86. An self sourced 64-bit SOC would allow them to no longer be dependent on the Intel CPU monopoly for their laptop, desktop, server offerings.
But Google is still supporting XP with their Windows version of Chrome... No need for IE...
Have you tried the virtual trackpad on VMWare View on either Android or iOS? IMHO, its as good as a any laptops trackpad or pointing device. I personally still need a real (bluetooth) keyboard as I find using the virtual keyboard a real PITA to use...
You can use VMware View to access a virtual desktop from your tablet (or even phone in a pinch).
When companies stopped buying big iron proprietary RISC servers to put in their datacenters and started putting commodity x86 servers instead, UNIX stagnated. Linux which was seen as a toy prior took advantage of this.
If you look at VMWare as the next evolution of the OS, it makes more and more sense. A couple of years back, BEA (now Oracle) released Liquid VM, an OS-less JVM that ran as a virtual machine in ESX.
Just about all professional services firms (such as Accenture, Deloitte, Wipro, CSC, etc) hires English and Psychology majors straight out of college, send them to a 2-4 week training program (where the new hires spend more time socializing and drinking than learning) and you have instant IT developer...
Oil/filter change, air filter change, fuel filter change, maybe some new spark plugs, a bottle or two of Techron fuel injector cleaner (don't add more than one per tank of gas though and do it after the fuel filter change), and make sure those tires are properly inflated. Many cars are not properly maintained and mileage suffers (by as much as 10-20%).
I too use K9. It's good stuff powered by Blue Coat's web filtering technology, which we use at my place of work. Works well for what it's intended HTTP traffic... It does not protect IM, peer-to-peer, or other stuff that doesn't work over HTTP.
This is one of the reasons why I opted to go Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005 when I built out my PVR earlier this month.
That already respin from the RHEL srpms? Seems like they now have to build a community for "Unbreakable". Shouldn't be difficult given who they are, but why start from scratch?
;)
Interesting strategy though. Wonder if this is payback for JBoss?
Definitely don't think that RH will go into bankruptcy any time soon. They've got a rich product stack and plenty of customers. The only thing their really lacking is an enterprise database platform. May RH should consider buying Sybase or the Informix stack from IBM so they could go head to head with Oracle
Here's my take on why Workstation is still a viable product, it's not meant to be a server virtualization product. We use Workstation for development and testing. Development because it allows us to deliver a consistent developer image to 30+ developers across the globe, and testing because each image contains all the tools required to run unit and system tests on our code base. We also don't need to worry about what the developers are using as a host OS (they could be running Win2k, WinXP, or Linux). We use ESX for server virtualization, meaning we have ESX running on big 4 CPU boxes which run our portal 24x7. For these purposes, both products work great. I've noticed that Workstation supports newer OSs than either GSX or ESX which is good for people using Workstation to test different OSs.
I worked at a company that only used IBM Thinkpads way back when and went through a bunch of different models (the last 2 were a 760XL and 600). I really liked them back then. I then worked at a startup where we bought Toshiba Tecra 8100s which I also considered really nice. Now working for a company that uses Dells and what an absolute POS my corporate Latitude D600 is. Sure it's fast (with a 2Ghz Dothan and 2GB of RAM), but ergonomically it sucks (the keyboard is by far the worst laptop keyboard I've ever used, the pointer/touchpad are near unusable). Luckily I have a docking station at work and use a full size keyboard and mouse...
That being said, I'm in the market for a new personal laptop... I'm gonna avoid Dell from my recent experience. How are the new Levono Thinkpads?
I've gotta agree with kicha. VMWare has a huge head-start over any of their competitors (Microsoft and Xen) especially in the enterprise space. And you gotta think that they've got plans to integrate the hardware based virtualization that AMD and Intel are promising. I use Workstation every day for my development environment and it blows my mind that it's all virtual and runs pretty close to native speeds, but it's a toy compared to the ESX that we use to deploy our portal.
It all depends on the application. I remember 11+ years ago I was a developer on the NY state tax processing project. We were using Sun Sparc 20s connected to Kodak 923D scanners to scan tax returns at a very high rate (something like 72 pages per minute duplex), the barcode information obtained from the tax returns was used to move the returns into a workflow process and the images were copied from a local filesystem over to massive (at the time) fileservers. HD's at the time (even the fastest SCSI drives available) were not able to keep up with the scanner writing the barcode info and images, our custom app processing the information, and moving the images to the filesystem. Our only alternative was to use a "RAM" disk. We stuffed our Sparc 20s will all the memory they could hold (512MB) and created a 256MB filesystem in RAM. We used a thirdparty ramdisk software product for the first release which ran on SunOS 4, but Sun actually implemented a pretty slick ramdisk with Solaris 2 which we used the following year. Benchmarks at the time found that these ramdisks were some 20+x the speed of HDs of that era. I'm suprised that the Gigabyte card is only 6x faster than a HD. You'd figure it'd be more, but I guess they are using SATA as the means through which to get to the "drive", so it may be hitting some physical limitation based on the interface... I wonder if it'd be more cost effective and faster to stick an extra 4GB of memory onto the motherboard and setup a ramdisk device similar to what we had on the Sparcs... Sure it wouldn't survive reboot, but it should only be a hair slower than reading and writing from RAM itself!
Pre-emptive... Wasn't that the explanation that Dubaya gave for invading Iraq?
Open-Source software is not only evil, but infringes on copyrights and patents ;)
A little off topic, but anybody find it interesting that all the next generation consoles will use IBM processing power? Considering the number of consoles sold compared to PCs, this has got to piss both Intel and AMD off...
If the RFID technology is similar to the car key RFID technology that was recently cracked...
Anybody ever notice that Balmer and Cheney look a lot alike... A whole lotta fear mongering going on between the two. http://www.ctam.com/conferences/summit/2003/images /photo-balmer.jpg
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Remember that Microsoft also owns some really good x86 emulation/virtualization software which already runs on the Power architecture...
Funny that Microsoft got in bed with perhaps the worlds largest Linux advocates to power their next console.
I can see it now... Mohammed Bah Abba got a great investment opportunity ;)
last month when they had talks with IBM...
As a onetime owner of a A2000, which I got as a HS graduation present back in 89' - which I kept current through tons of cash in upgrades (1MB Agnus, de-interlacer, SCSI hard drive controller, 68040 accelerator and a bunch o' 32MB memory which was a lot circa the early 90s, and upgrading the Kickstarts through 3.1), I finally succumb to evil (Intel) empire in the mid 90s selling the albatros for a brand spanking new PPro 200 with Windows 95 which ran a bazillion Mhz faster, ran the software I worked with, and most importantly played the latest and greatest games.
;)
I still have fond memories of the Amiga. Who can forget the elegant OS and GUI, AmigaBasic (care of Microsoft), AREXX (care of IBM?), multimedia capabilities beyond any of it's peers (again circa late 80s yearly 90s), and a clean/usable CLI/Shell which rivaled anything UNIX had at the time. And how can you forget that this platform was capable of running the original VideoToaster (for those who had enough cash, unfortunately not me) which brought "broadcast quality" video editing to the masses, had fully capable authorware via AmigaVision, and ran all the best 3D packages (Lightwave, Imagine, Caligari, Sculpt 3D). And last but not least, the games. Sure none took advantage of HAM, but those custom chips were far and away superior to anything that the PC or Mac could offer at the time. And most ran smooth as silk on the plain jane 7Mhz 68000 processor which power-ed/s most Amigas.
But to see the Amiga evolution has been comical and sad. Now that we're on 10+ years of companies not having any idea of what to do with the Amiga, I think it's lost any relevance it had left in the alternative platform space.
In the multimedia niche, the Amiga now needs to contend with PCs and Macs which have kept pace with technology improvements. While the Amiga revolutionized the industry when introduced, does anybody really believe it can do it again in this arena?
In the video niche, I think NLE killed this niche for the Amiga a while ago.
In terms of cool factor, there have been a couple of attempts (BeOS comes to mind) to build a better mousetrap, but I think Linux fills this niche now.
And finally in the games niche, the consoles took this niche and will likely never give it back to PCs.
So again I ask the question of relevance. I honestly hope that the new OS owners release a product, don't get me wrong, but it's just a matter of time before the inevitable fade into obscurity... Unless Microsoft buys it for their XBox II
Your argument is lost on me...
Oracle and DB2 (and let's not leave out Sybase and Informix to boot) both support Linux. Maybe not 30+ CPUs, but the software is definitely there, just need a kernel that supports massive SMP.
Don't know about commercial CAD/CAE packages, but my guess is if they're not there yet, they will be within a year or two.
Tuxedo and MQ are also available for Linux, arguably the industry leaders in TPM and middleware messaging. And in terms of app server technologies, all the vendors now have J2EE implementations that's as well supported on Linux as any other platforms.
SAP also is available on Linux. PeopleSoft too.
I believe that embedded (the kind used for shop floor control) is growing at an enormous rate (it's displacing real UN*Xs so fast as to render them irrelevant soon).
And unless you're an airline...
I used to be a UN*X bigot, but I've come to the conclusion (like IBM, Sun, and just about every other commercial software company) that Linux growth at the expense of proprietary UN*X is not necessarily a bad thing.