We run veritas NetBackup on HP-UX machines, though we're an all-linux shop. Why, you ask, don't we run linux when the newest version of veritas' (excellent) netbackup datacenter (4.5) is available for linux _servers_ (not just clients, as in the past)? Simply: Fibre-channel tape library support. Any F-CAL support for anything (besides IP over Fibre channel, which isn't very useful) would be nice!
Granted, it's a total niche market, HP, sun, IBM, and Microsoft will continue to get their feet in the door at every company that backs up a lot of data--or uses SANs--because linux is years behind in that department (we've had our Surestore 6/60 libraries for 3 years now).
Covalent happens to employ about half of the apache developers--and it has for many years. At least these folks have a small, scrappy upstart company to work for...instead of/\/\icro$oft. How do you think apache would turn out if _that_ company started to commandeer open source projects?
Even open source developers gotta eat, brother--and Covalent's as gooda place as any to pay the bills.
sun's totally taking this cue from oracle, which changes its pricing model every other year just to make money off the confusion (with dominance of the enterprise db market, they're basically the Micro$oft of RDBMS's anyway).
i love solaris, but it's not like they've ever made money off the OS--it's the hardware, stupid!
Most great CS programs (MIT, CalTech, etc.) don't offer "terminal" master's of CS degrees. In other words, they expect you to hang around and do research, publish, teach, etc.
This reinforces the fact that programming talent is a commodity that is valuable only in terms of supply/demand. Computer science, on the other hand, is not an applied science in and of itself--it's a way of approaching problems. The value of your programming skills is measured by dollars, but your CS background is not.
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We run veritas NetBackup on HP-UX machines, though we're an all-linux shop. Why, you ask, don't we run linux when the newest version of veritas' (excellent) netbackup datacenter (4.5) is available for linux _servers_ (not just clients, as in the past)? Simply: Fibre-channel tape library support. Any F-CAL support for anything (besides IP over Fibre channel, which isn't very useful) would be nice!
Granted, it's a total niche market, HP, sun, IBM, and Microsoft will continue to get their feet in the door at every company that backs up a lot of data--or uses SANs--because linux is years behind in that department (we've had our Surestore 6/60 libraries for 3 years now).
Covalent happens to employ about half of the apache developers--and it has for many years. At least these folks have a small, scrappy upstart company to work for...instead of /\/\icro$oft. How do you think apache would turn out if _that_ company started to commandeer open source projects?
Even open source developers gotta eat, brother--and Covalent's as gooda place as any to pay the bills.
has anyone found a cache link that actually works? Every one I've seen on slashdot or in articles pointing to google caches seems to be invalid.
This is interesting, but reading about the ads without being able to see them is pretty useless! Please post!
sun's totally taking this cue from oracle, which changes its pricing model every other year just to make money off the confusion (with dominance of the enterprise db market, they're basically the Micro$oft of RDBMS's anyway).
i love solaris, but it's not like they've ever made money off the OS--it's the hardware, stupid!
Most great CS programs (MIT, CalTech, etc.) don't offer "terminal" master's of CS degrees. In other words, they expect you to hang around and do research, publish, teach, etc.
This reinforces the fact that programming talent is a commodity that is valuable only in terms of supply/demand. Computer science, on the other hand, is not an applied science in and of itself--it's a way of approaching problems. The value of your programming skills is measured by dollars, but your CS background is not.