This is the really fun part, watching them shoot themselves in the foot like this. Heck do the imagine that the judge isn't going to remember that IBM released source to SCO, or that failing that IBM won't point it out? I'm no lawyer but I think this idiot just perjured himself...
Also what business do SCO's techies have pawing through IBM's proprietary code now that they no longer have a joint business transaction related to that code? I would be shocked if the original contracts associated with Project Monterey didn't have termination language that would have required SCO to either destroy or at least lock away any IBM IP they were no longer entitled to use.
Useful enough for what it appears to have been designed for, single stream, write once read many data storage for digital media. However I'm just know that some bonehead is going to look at this, and go "wow, I could put my DBMS on that" and save a lot of money.
Worse I KNOW I've going to have to explain, at length, to someone's boss, why 1TB of usable storage on a SAN storage server with 8GB of battery backed write through cache and total redundant hot swap parts and 400MB/s transfer rate doesn't also cost $1199....
Lack of ability to record from the radio was a showstopper for me. Funny because their flash players with FM radios DO permit recording from the radio (somewhat sub optimally, it records to REC format file that has to be converted to WAV on a computer).
What I would really like is this device with record from FM and a timer function like in the PoGo! RADIOYourWay. Heck for that matter I ca't figure out why the PoGo! folks don't put a timer function in the RipDrive products.
If it had that AND the ability to use it as a mass storage for my Digicam either through USB or with an add on card reader like the Belkin one that you can get for the iPod) I'd be on the way to the store now.
Those that burned Cryptonomicon after the first 200 pages are the lucky ones. It presents some interesting potential as an unedited manuscript but as a supposedly finished book it's crud. Either it was not editied at all, edited by a complete boob or the author ignored his editor. There's potentially a really good 500 page novel in there but some pretty hard slogging to find it. I won't even get into the issue of the technical errors on the grounds that this is fiction after all...
Up until now IBM's approach has been to support VMware, the have some partnerhip agreements and IBM has a reseller agreement. IIRC on some of the xSeries servers you could order VMware factory installed. I assume that three things are happening now a) IBM is considering a counteroffer b) the IP lawyers are going to be looking HARD at potential infringements of IBMs patents in this area c) they are looking at existing software assets for something they can use as a quick start to get in this game directly.
Re-read the article, it doesn't say they have 94.3TB of data, they say this value is an "estimate of the total volume of data managed by the DBMS in GB" and fail completely to explain what they mean by this, since this system appears to be the same one that's in 2nd place on database size at ~26TB I'm guessing they intend this somehow represent "turnover" of the data.
Actually what it says about AT&T is that it has 94.3TB of normalized data volume but fails to define this in any more detail than "Normalized Data Volume estimates of the total volume of data managed by the DBMS in GB". It certainly looks like this is the same system that is listed as having ~26TB of data.
In any case this whole thing is crap, I personally know of at least one and probably a couple more systems that would qualify for the list in the OLTP category (one DB2 on AIX, one DB2 on zOS and one Oracle, all running SAP R/3).
It's all based on 141 surveys...in other words, a miniscule amount of "data" if you could call it that.
FWIW there's this church in Utah that has last I heard at least 7 and probably 9 petabytes of genealogical data, I have no idea how they actually organize it and doubt this would be called a single database in the terms used here but there are certainly bigger databases out there than this "study" accounts for.
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Actually it's the other way around, AIM is based on code licensed from Lotus.
Also what business do SCO's techies have pawing through IBM's proprietary code now that they no longer have a joint business transaction related to that code? I would be shocked if the original contracts associated with Project Monterey didn't have termination language that would have required SCO to either destroy or at least lock away any IBM IP they were no longer entitled to use.
Worse I KNOW I've going to have to explain, at length, to someone's boss, why 1TB of usable storage on a SAN storage server with 8GB of battery backed write through cache and total redundant hot swap parts and 400MB/s transfer rate doesn't also cost $1199....
I'd be suprised if there wasn't an RTC in there somewhere, it has to figure out what timestamps to put on files it creates when recording.
What I would really like is this device with record from FM and a timer function like in the PoGo! RADIOYourWay. Heck for that matter I ca't figure out why the PoGo! folks don't put a timer function in the RipDrive products.
If it had that AND the ability to use it as a mass storage for my Digicam either through USB or with an add on card reader like the Belkin one that you can get for the iPod) I'd be on the way to the store now.
Those that burned Cryptonomicon after the first 200 pages are the lucky ones. It presents some interesting potential as an unedited manuscript but as a supposedly finished book it's crud. Either it was not editied at all, edited by a complete boob or the author ignored his editor. There's potentially a really good 500 page novel in there but some pretty hard slogging to find it. I won't even get into the issue of the technical errors on the grounds that this is fiction after all...
Up until now IBM's approach has been to support VMware, the have some partnerhip agreements and IBM has a reseller agreement. IIRC on some of the xSeries servers you could order VMware factory installed. I assume that three things are happening now a) IBM is considering a counteroffer b) the IP lawyers are going to be looking HARD at potential infringements of IBMs patents in this area c) they are looking at existing software assets for something they can use as a quick start to get in this game directly.
Anyone top that? There's this church in Utah, with apparantly something in the order 7-9 Petabytes of genealogical data.
Re-read the article, it doesn't say they have 94.3TB of data, they say this value is an "estimate of the total volume of data managed by the DBMS in GB" and fail completely to explain what they mean by this, since this system appears to be the same one that's in 2nd place on database size at ~26TB I'm guessing they intend this somehow represent "turnover" of the data.
Actually what it says about AT&T is that it has 94.3TB of normalized data volume but fails to define this in any more detail than "Normalized Data Volume estimates of the total volume of data managed by the DBMS in GB". It certainly looks like this is the same system that is listed as having ~26TB of data. In any case this whole thing is crap, I personally know of at least one and probably a couple more systems that would qualify for the list in the OLTP category (one DB2 on AIX, one DB2 on zOS and one Oracle, all running SAP R/3). It's all based on 141 surveys...in other words, a miniscule amount of "data" if you could call it that. FWIW there's this church in Utah that has last I heard at least 7 and probably 9 petabytes of genealogical data, I have no idea how they actually organize it and doubt this would be called a single database in the terms used here but there are certainly bigger databases out there than this "study" accounts for.