Thats what this announcement does - it says 'more high end SPARC chips with faster clocks are coming' in addition to the throughput computing chips they previously announced. What's so confusing about that? Agree totally about what you said about vertical scale and reliability and heat
No - That's for individual apps with both paralel and serial parts cos the serial part dominates execution and limits paralelisation. Throughput computing says if you're running a web or app server or OS with many independent threads then they all get to run in paralel. No problem with Amdahl's law - that's a different situation
Baloney. I've had power drop out and kill Sun machines and they just come right back. Are you talking about file system check? Just turn on logging in/etc/vfstab and even that goes away, just like the same reason you use ext3 instead of ext2 on Linux.
...because it gets rid of capital acquisition costs and risk of over provisioning stuff that quickly loses $value. The idea makes lots of sense. Really.
Ad in newspaper: "IBM Recommends Windows XP Professional". Oh yeah, they're the real open systems advocates alright. Just look at the other ones they have: zOS, OS400, VSE, DB2, Websphere. All closed source. They like open source as long as they can turn a buck pushing their global services and their hardware. You dont see them open up their stuff which is more closed than M$FT ever dreamed
Of course Dell wants to sell XP to the masses. They're a MS reseller and it's the highest margin item they sell in the product. Dell makes mucho dinero off Windows. People saying 'gimme a machine without an OS' are missing that big point. Dell, and IBM, and HP, are all Microsoft resellers and make a pretty buck off it, as loudly as they say Linux when/. people are around
Kind of like, but not the same. Read carefully: Zones give you one copy of Solaris, but private zones/containers within them. You don't get the overhead of virtual machines, or of multiple OSes all serving clock ticks every 10ms!
You mean like z/OS or OS/400? Or WebSphere all full of com.ibm.* imports that are non standard? Or Eclipse with SWT when they could have brought SWT to the JCP? No, IBM looooves proprietary. They loooooove open when they can get you to hire them to integrate the pieces. Of course sales people run the company there.
And thats why we all use an OS designed by IBM, program in languages, designed by IBM, and run on hardware designed by IBM. Oh, ooops, sorry, wrong universe.
They do a great job of appearing to be 'good guys'. They are all in favor of other companies open sourcing THEIR crown jewels, but you never see IBM open sourcing any if their own money makers. Lets see:
MVS == OS/390 == z/OS. Closed
OS400. Closed.
all their C, C++, Fortran compilers and libraries. Closed.
CICS. Closed.
IMS. Closed.
SNA stack. Closed.
DB2. Closed.
Informix. Closed.
WebSphere (their big new $ queen). Closed.
Poor old OS2, even. Closed.
When I say closed, I mean even their customers and IBMers in the field can't get source code. How open is that?
See a trend? If it belongs to somebody else, or if it's marginal to their real product lines, they are happy to open source. IBM says: Hey Sun, open source the Java you invented. I say 'You first, IBM'
Actually, all their own hardware lines are. AS400 is now iSeries and mainframe is now zSeries. Both closed and IBM is the only source. You didnt think they ported Linux their for fun did you? Its all about selling boxes or consultant bodies
There's no quotas. Surgical residency positions are going begging now since the demands on surgeons are so high and fewer people want to take it on. The stats are publically available. It is not a way to make easy money, dude. Its hard work and the HMOs screw everybody and keep the money themselves.
No, they need the $ because they have to pay off the med school $150K debt they have, and then they have to make crap $ while residents at 80 hours a week. When they sign at a hospital they have to pay a fee to be on staff, take night call and run in at 2am, take indigent patients who walk into ER with an aneurysm and get $0 for the work, and then pay $100K per year for malpractice insurance (even if theyve never been sued). And, the HMOs cut their rates for procedures every year.
Give me a break yourself - you think it's easy, go get an MD, become board certified and try it yourself. Some people study english lit all their live and never have to hold somebody's blood vessels in their hands...
What do you mean, only certain systems? With StarOffice or Open Office you can read it on Mac, Linux, Solaris and probably others. We tell governments not to use MS Word because it's a proprietary data format not because it's not crossplatform
Wrong: changes to Java come from JSRs, which is interested parties from several companies. Great, so if Sun open sources Java we get lots of little dialects that dont work together. Thanks but no thanks. And wishful thinking that this would make money from open sourcing it. ESRs nuts.
If the new GUI framework is so great, why didnt they take it to JCP and get it set up as a JSR? No, the reason they did it was to get a new GUI that locked you into their product. The first one is free, and then you have to go into Websphere.
The name of the product tells the story. It still pisses off some IBMers that a company 1/10th the side invents more useful stuff than they do
There is a way - the Java Community Process, and now the Tools forum. But IBM doesnt want that because the whole point of Eclipse is to stick it to Sun and generate of WebSphere $
"useless sequences-of-nines uptimes"????? FTW? You dont understand computing in Real World if you think thats useless. Not everythings a render farm with stateless compute.
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Expected at end of year with Solaris 10: 64 bit on SPARC and AMD, 32 bit on Pentium
Thats what this announcement does - it says 'more high end SPARC chips with faster clocks are coming' in addition to the throughput computing chips they previously announced. What's so confusing about that? Agree totally about what you said about vertical scale and reliability and heat
No - That's for individual apps with both paralel and serial parts cos the serial part dominates execution and limits paralelisation. Throughput computing says if you're running a web or app server or OS with many independent threads then they all get to run in paralel. No problem with Amdahl's law - that's a different situation
Baloney. I've had power drop out and kill Sun machines and they just come right back. Are you talking about file system check? Just turn on logging in /etc/vfstab and even that goes away, just like the same reason you use ext3 instead of ext2 on Linux.
...because it gets rid of capital acquisition costs and risk of over provisioning stuff that quickly loses $value. The idea makes lots of sense. Really.
Ad in newspaper: "IBM Recommends Windows XP Professional". Oh yeah, they're the real open systems advocates alright. Just look at the other ones they have: zOS, OS400, VSE, DB2, Websphere. All closed source. They like open source as long as they can turn a buck pushing their global services and their hardware. You dont see them open up their stuff which is more closed than M$FT ever dreamed
Of course Dell wants to sell XP to the masses. They're a MS reseller and it's the highest margin item they sell in the product. Dell makes mucho dinero off Windows. People saying 'gimme a machine without an OS' are missing that big point. Dell, and IBM, and HP, are all Microsoft resellers and make a pretty buck off it, as loudly as they say Linux when /. people are around
Kind of like, but not the same. Read carefully: Zones give you one copy of Solaris, but private zones/containers within them. You don't get the overhead of virtual machines, or of multiple OSes all serving clock ticks every 10ms!
You mean like z/OS or OS/400? Or WebSphere all full of com.ibm.* imports that are non standard? Or Eclipse with SWT when they could have brought SWT to the JCP? No, IBM looooves proprietary. They loooooove open when they can get you to hire them to integrate the pieces. Of course sales people run the company there.
And thats why we all use an OS designed by IBM, program in languages, designed by IBM, and run on hardware designed by IBM. Oh, ooops, sorry, wrong universe.
MVS == OS/390 == z/OS. Closed
OS400. Closed.
all their C, C++, Fortran compilers and libraries. Closed.
CICS. Closed.
IMS. Closed.
SNA stack. Closed.
DB2. Closed.
Informix. Closed.
WebSphere (their big new $ queen). Closed.
Poor old OS2, even. Closed.
When I say closed, I mean even their customers and IBMers in the field can't get source code. How open is that?
See a trend? If it belongs to somebody else, or if it's marginal to their real product lines, they are happy to open source. IBM says: Hey Sun, open source the Java you invented. I say 'You first, IBM'
Actually, all their own hardware lines are. AS400 is now iSeries and mainframe is now zSeries. Both closed and IBM is the only source. You didnt think they ported Linux their for fun did you? Its all about selling boxes or consultant bodies
They bought peecee device drives from SCO to run on Solaris. Thats it.
Maybe he didnt want to stay at the original Evil Empire any more.
Current unpopularity? Nooooo, he's always unpopular because all he does is RANT. Phipps is right
There's no quotas. Surgical residency positions are going begging now since the demands on surgeons are so high and fewer people want to take it on. The stats are publically available. It is not a way to make easy money, dude. Its hard work and the HMOs screw everybody and keep the money themselves.
No, they need the $ because they have to pay off the med school $150K debt they have, and then they have to make crap $ while residents at 80 hours a week. When they sign at a hospital they have to pay a fee to be on staff, take night call and run in at 2am, take indigent patients who walk into ER with an aneurysm and get $0 for the work, and then pay $100K per year for malpractice insurance (even if theyve never been sued). And, the HMOs cut their rates for procedures every year. Give me a break yourself - you think it's easy, go get an MD, become board certified and try it yourself. Some people study english lit all their live and never have to hold somebody's blood vessels in their hands...
try latest version. Staroffice 7 is lots faster than previous versions. The pain is gone! (and I'm free from windows now)
What do you mean, only certain systems? With StarOffice or Open Office you can read it on Mac, Linux, Solaris and probably others. We tell governments not to use MS Word because it's a proprietary data format not because it's not crossplatform
Wrong: changes to Java come from JSRs, which is interested parties from several companies. Great, so if Sun open sources Java we get lots of little dialects that dont work together. Thanks but no thanks. And wishful thinking that this would make money from open sourcing it. ESRs nuts.
The name of the product tells the story. It still pisses off some IBMers that a company 1/10th the side invents more useful stuff than they do
There is a way - the Java Community Process, and now the Tools forum. But IBM doesnt want that because the whole point of Eclipse is to stick it to Sun and generate of WebSphere $
No questions why IBM is using XP: lotsa nasty adware written for it, and they really dont give a damn about Linux anyway
Solaris doesn't have SMIT. Does that count as a plus? ;-)
"useless sequences-of-nines uptimes"????? FTW? You dont understand computing in Real World if you think thats useless. Not everythings a render farm with stateless compute.