What if the software runs in a compute farm? Would you put a dongle on every compute node? How would that work on a remote cloud? Dongles are probably Ok for a workstation, but wouldn't scale in a larger environment. 10k isn't exactly breaking the bank in terms of software licensing. I'd look at other options, ie, licensing and legal agreements, which include the option to audit.
Most of the rest were so obvious that it really wasn't worth mentioning, an up to speed person would have known that. Wireless will be big in the future (published 2005ish)? No way!
The best part is that the Gartner reports I've seen ususally cost about $400 and probably average 8-10 pages. Not worth it in my opinion but then again for corporations who believe Gartner reports are prophecy I guesz $400 for a multi-billion dollar company isn't a big deal.
Right, in a large corporation, when a new tool or application is brought in, it usually has to go through an architectural review, a readiness review, and various other reviews. One thing corporations like to know is whether or not the company that they are about to dump $10k per seat (much, much more in a lot of cases, I'm just throwing that number out there) license on is going to be around in 5 years when the corporation is neck deep in the implementation of that product. This is where the Gartner group comes in. It gives the company a starting point in the decision process on whether they are about to make a good investment and start a relationship with a proven entity.
Also, a lot of corporations are not trend setters or trailblazers - they are followers. The execs all get together to see what the other companies are doing, what trends are popular and successful, and usually decisions are based on that. The Gartner group is perfect for this mindset.
There are some large corporations out there that are IT risk takers and trendsetters, but I haven't been fortunate enough to work for many.
Cloud Computing while a cool CS Concept and can be used in some cases. The fact that most apps are single threaded design will not gain any benefit from this and most companies don't need that level computing power. They would wast money and get small benefit. Unless they do some massive computing. I had to reply to this.
If you have a shop that has a very large compute farm that runs exclusively, batch jobs, then you can clearly understand where cloud computing can be a tremendous advantage. A lot of users of batch compute resources find creative ways to serialize and/or parallelize their overall process using scripts, multiple hosts, dependencies, etc. With cloud computing, all of this can be implemented automatically.
That's a huge time and cost saver right there alone. Additionally, with our cloud computing solution (Electric Cloud), we get an additional advantage with the built in virtualization that comes along with the system. In the old days, we were forced to manage multiple development build stacks to satisfy the needs of multiple business units or departments. Now, we manage a cloud of hosts that are baseline installs, with bare minimal configurations, and the submit host's environment is replicated to the cloud nodes when a build is kicked off. This saves money on hardware resources, hardware resources, engineering resources, etc.
You may think, well, most developers use the same build stack or tool stack - but that's an assumption that has been proven incorrect time and time again where I work. We work with embedded device developers and they have a very specific tool stack requirement, with specific versions, or may need a pristine build environment without the possibility of conflicts from various packages that may be installed on the build host.
Yes, we run Klocwork 7.7.x in production an 8.0 in test. Our users (embedded developers, wireless mostly, along with some IDE developers) have had great success with Klocwork. The price tag is up there, but you need to do an ROI exercise to determine if it is worth it. For us, it WAS worth it. We also have Coverity in house, but many users are leaving that tool to use Klocwork due to ease of use, number of false positives, along with a decrease in cost since they can use a shared pool of licenses. Polyspace is on the landscape, but it is commonly thought of as a tool to use once you've fixed all the problems that Klocwork and Coverity discovered.
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I went back and read what I posted, and I guess it could be taken out of context. I should have said, "people think they are Arab, when in fact, they are Persian (Aryan). People also think they may lack in..., but they are actually quite adept in those areas". I should have paid closer attention to the "A woman with out a man is nothing" lesson (A woman: without, a man is nothing). I apologize for the confusion./-l
Ah, I'm sorry, it is good to see that you have become such an expert on Iranian military aircraft by doing a few searches on the internet and making such an educated decision on what the Saegheh is, or its capabilities. Thanks for enlightening me. The truth of the matter is, Iran engineers and manufactures ALL of their military equipment in house and tends to be very tight lipped about it.
The intent of my original post was to point out that the Iranians are not stupid people, they do not have a weak military force, and they are far from being inept in the engineering of military machinery (or machinery of any type for that matter).
You know..a lot of people have this image of Iranians being Arab and without any technical, mechanical, or engineering aptitude, but that couldn't be further from the truth. The fact is, the Iranian people are actually Persian (Aryans) and probably have more of the aptitudes listed above in their genetic makeup than most people. I think they could reverse engineer pretty much anything.
Another interesting fact is that Iran's Saegheh fighter jet is on par with the F-18.
This is good stuff. Is there any chance you'll take the podcast route like UC Berkeley did? Please see: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/feeds.php . I think it is a fantastic service and allows for automatically updating for those that use iPods and/or iTunes:D
Chunks of the environment are handed over to the customer and they install and run whatever they like. It might be one of the various scheduling tools out there such as LSF, openPBS, PBS, mpich,etc or something completely in house. To get an idea of what usually runs on these types of systems, check out the xCat home page or the xCat mailing list (or here).
They are great.I love em. They glue King's world together too. You'll start to notice references to the series in nearly every book he wrote. Some are subtle, while others entail the entire book.
It ties into the Dark Tower series (as do many of his books). Ted is a breaker running from the Crimson King's henchmen...He makes another appearance at the end of the DT series. I think you have to be a Dark Tower fan to get it/like it:)
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Wow! Check out the big brain on Brad!
Looks like we have our own Monday morning armchair war quarterback! Thanks for all the page slaps of URL's contradicting a soldier's OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCES.
Thanks for pointing that out. I confess, I'm guilty, I didn't read all of the articles:/ Hey! I was trying to drink my coffee and/. while I had some free time!:)
With this release, I don't really think they are going to gain market share where they want it. Sure, you'll see a lot of sparc v9 systems getting upgraded to it once stability checks are in place, but in my industries (chip design, geophysics) the switch was to an x86 platform running Linux since pure speed was critical. Now that x86_64 Linux kernels are available most businesses that I have worked with have started another switch: to Opertons. This gets past the memory limit per process that has been a hindering factor. I think once Solaris 10 is ported to x86_64 platform, which I read somewhere once that it will get ported, it will only be a matter of time before the software vendors that these companies use start to validate the OS. Once this happens, we could be in for a ride.
Just my opinion based on past experience of course.
You're right, it takes at least a minimum of 50k in a city where the cost of living hasn't shot through the roof. Add:
1) The extra 600-800 per month for daycare , since your wife needs to work also
2) The extra 200 bucks a month the mortgate company sprung on you because they miscalculated your insurance and escrow last year
3) The extra 75 bucks more to your mortgage to cover the increase in local property taxes
4) the extra 700 bucks a month to add your wife and kid to your insurance because your body shop consulting firm doesn't want to foot the bill for decent insurance coverage
Yep, that has pretty much cut into ALL of my geek toy spending...I used to have my own lab at home with various UNIX workstations ranging from Sun's to obscure xterm servers. Just the other day my wife and I were trying to figure exactly what changed since our quality of life hasn't exactly gotten any better, but it sure has gotten much more expensive.
"Industry observers see it both ways, indicating that while IT pros may have less opportunity for extra pay, no company is going to risk losing a good tech worker over a few overtime hours and will make up for any losses if necessary."
Yeah..where have they been????
"I think companies will make up for it in different ways," he said. "Today, it's about what you do. It's the quality of the work you do and how much you do."
*cough* *cough* bullshit! *cough*
I look around at work and at some of my previous jobs and I have to say, this just isn't true. Not true at all.
I see this as another way that The Man is sticking it to the little guy..again. Overtime for some people is what makes the difference. Take that away and you cut into a significant portion of their monthly wages.
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What if the software runs in a compute farm? Would you put a dongle on every compute node? How would that work on a remote cloud? Dongles are probably Ok for a workstation, but wouldn't scale in a larger environment. 10k isn't exactly breaking the bank in terms of software licensing. I'd look at other options, ie, licensing and legal agreements, which include the option to audit.
The best part is that the Gartner reports I've seen ususally cost about $400 and probably average 8-10 pages. Not worth it in my opinion but then again for corporations who believe Gartner reports are prophecy I guesz $400 for a multi-billion dollar company isn't a big deal.
Right, in a large corporation, when a new tool or application is brought in, it usually has to go through an architectural review, a readiness review, and various other reviews. One thing corporations like to know is whether or not the company that they are about to dump $10k per seat (much, much more in a lot of cases, I'm just throwing that number out there) license on is going to be around in 5 years when the corporation is neck deep in the implementation of that product. This is where the Gartner group comes in. It gives the company a starting point in the decision process on whether they are about to make a good investment and start a relationship with a proven entity.Also, a lot of corporations are not trend setters or trailblazers - they are followers. The execs all get together to see what the other companies are doing, what trends are popular and successful, and usually decisions are based on that. The Gartner group is perfect for this mindset.
There are some large corporations out there that are IT risk takers and trendsetters, but I haven't been fortunate enough to work for many.
If you have a shop that has a very large compute farm that runs exclusively, batch jobs, then you can clearly understand where cloud computing can be a tremendous advantage. A lot of users of batch compute resources find creative ways to serialize and/or parallelize their overall process using scripts, multiple hosts, dependencies, etc. With cloud computing, all of this can be implemented automatically.
That's a huge time and cost saver right there alone. Additionally, with our cloud computing solution (Electric Cloud), we get an additional advantage with the built in virtualization that comes along with the system. In the old days, we were forced to manage multiple development build stacks to satisfy the needs of multiple business units or departments. Now, we manage a cloud of hosts that are baseline installs, with bare minimal configurations, and the submit host's environment is replicated to the cloud nodes when a build is kicked off. This saves money on hardware resources, hardware resources, engineering resources, etc.
You may think, well, most developers use the same build stack or tool stack - but that's an assumption that has been proven incorrect time and time again where I work. We work with embedded device developers and they have a very specific tool stack requirement, with specific versions, or may need a pristine build environment without the possibility of conflicts from various packages that may be installed on the build host.
Yes, we run Klocwork 7.7.x in production an 8.0 in test. Our users (embedded developers, wireless mostly, along with some IDE developers) have had great success with Klocwork. The price tag is up there, but you need to do an ROI exercise to determine if it is worth it. For us, it WAS worth it. We also have Coverity in house, but many users are leaving that tool to use Klocwork due to ease of use, number of false positives, along with a decrease in cost since they can use a shared pool of licenses. Polyspace is on the landscape, but it is commonly thought of as a tool to use once you've fixed all the problems that Klocwork and Coverity discovered.
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Hope that helps!
I went back and read what I posted, and I guess it could be taken out of context. I should have said, "people think they are Arab, when in fact, they are Persian (Aryan). People also think they may lack in ..., but they are actually quite adept in those areas". I should have paid closer attention to the "A woman with out a man is nothing" lesson (A woman: without, a man is nothing). I apologize for the confusion. /-l
The intent of my original post was to point out that the Iranians are not stupid people, they do not have a weak military force, and they are far from being inept in the engineering of military machinery (or machinery of any type for that matter).
Another interesting fact is that Iran's Saegheh fighter jet is on par with the F-18.
I guess I should take a closer look before I post things. There already is a podcast link: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse p590/06wi/lectures/podcast.xml
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What a jerk. I was still reading it.
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It ties into the Dark Tower series (as do many of his books). Ted is a breaker running from the Crimson King's henchmen...He makes another appearance at the end of the DT series. I think you have to be a Dark Tower fan to get it/like it :)
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Just my opinion based on past experience of course.
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1) The extra 600-800 per month for daycare , since your wife needs to work also
2) The extra 200 bucks a month the mortgate company sprung on you because they miscalculated your insurance and escrow last year
3) The extra 75 bucks more to your mortgage to cover the increase in local property taxes
4) the extra 700 bucks a month to add your wife and kid to your insurance because your body shop consulting firm doesn't want to foot the bill for decent insurance coverage
Yep, that has pretty much cut into ALL of my geek toy spending...I used to have my own lab at home with various UNIX workstations ranging from Sun's to obscure xterm servers. Just the other day my wife and I were trying to figure exactly what changed since our quality of life hasn't exactly gotten any better, but it sure has gotten much more expensive.
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Yeah..where have they been????
"I think companies will make up for it in different ways," he said. "Today, it's about what you do. It's the quality of the work you do and how much you do."
*cough* *cough* bullshit! *cough*
I look around at work and at some of my previous jobs and I have to say, this just isn't true. Not true at all.
I see this as another way that The Man is sticking it to the little guy..again. Overtime for some people is what makes the difference. Take that away and you cut into a significant portion of their monthly wages.-L
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