Yesterday felt like it was Apple's media blitz for WWDC and Iphone V3. There was so much news on iPhone v3 and bashing of the Pre.
Palm obviously squashed that today (no Apple news on the interwebs) with this. Cause now, Apple either responds with a lawsuit or iTunes patch (looks evil) or spins it and says it's a benefit of iTunes (and since everyone thinks iTunes is bloat ware, looks like a monopoly, hence evil) and continues the Palm discussion, i.e. advertisement away from iPhone v3.
Win-win for Palm.
Now Apple can ignore all this and hit hard with the iPhone v3 specs, say tomorrow (same day as Palm's release) and it will take the steam outta Palm and set them up for a normal WWDC. Apple better do something now cause the Pre reviews have been a. totally bias-crap to pretty good, gorgeous screen device--easliy an iPhone contender.
Also, like most web apps, they are developed in some agile way.
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Hence it took them 1 year to develop gmail, 1 year to get it into beta, and then 5 years to figure out what the heck they built (design), how to handle the traffic (system configuration), how to handle the users (requirements) and how to maintain it (documentation).
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Funny thing is if they did it in a non-agile way, it would have taken them the same time, and looking at the way they executed/deployed it, along with the popularity of Google, would have the same number of users within the year of a non-agile release. Gmail was developed in iterative fashion, but now has releases goto QA, CM, IV&V, etc... where all those fun development exercises end abruptly and the critical work begins.
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Either way, the developers are still over-worked and held to the fire. Now that's what we've learned from this gmail-beat exercise...
They were My Book portable hard drives. Basically, the Archives were using USB drives for backups (today) vs and that there were 1TB drives back in 2000 is incorrect.
Still, this plainly says: dysfunctional gov't.
And in the end, the gov't doesn't care about your private information: it's to expensive to maintain and they would be held accountable. They rather sell it to the highest bidder or sell the maintenance to the lowest bidder.
You're asking something (a computer) to do something (a task) with no feedback unless you ask it (logging), and no consideration of external constraints (memory and latency). And you're supplying it with commands such that the computer is not operating in your context: that it has no knowledge of your context (domain needs) since every computer operates the same way (i.e. logically).
You need to get into a state of mind to satisfy all those needs to communicate (program) to a computer, hence a ritual makes you "focus" yourself into that state of mind.
I used to live in that area and recall there was a lot of construction off the 'assumed' Calvert street entrance next to the A. Glover Rec Center's parking lot. There was a lot of dump trucks that went through a temp guard gate there for at least 18 months (!) after 9/11. You would only notice it if you lived there or use that path for the ticket-infamous Mass Ave. short cut to G'town. Otherwise, there was so much other construction on Mass Ave. that made the dump trucks look common--considering there was a lot of construction in front of a Muslim mosque/offices right down the road. I can also see the residents complaining, those 4 blocks behind the station are incredibly wealthy, very nice homes in the multi-million range. The construction did involve pile drivers, so it was noisy.
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Nothing new here, it is the highest point in the city (a big hill) and would make some sense to have some tunnels or rooms underground--I thought they were building an underground tunnel to The Good Guys bar (xxx) or JP's (which would make sense too) since it was behind the park. Then again, a basic shelter makes sense...
In the end, who the F* cares if a cloud service goes down?
If a life is not lost, there are no worries with cloud computing (hence, cloud computing should be used for non-life critical services, gmail is a perfect example).
Of course, VCs may have lost revenue, Capitalists may sweat from loss stock trades, teenagers may lose that one twitter about how cool Miley is to them, some adult may not get that date tonight from craigslist, you may miss that one Hulu commercial, some K-12 kid may not be able to send out his homework, some college kid can't access his pirate bay music lists, or the USPoTC may miss that extra minute to promote his stimulus bill.
In the end, I hope cloud services shows us that we are not slaves to time. The human race has advanced enough to know that already. And really, if "the cloud" is down for an hour, maybe you should go outside and enjoy the wonders of nature and peace for once, or talk to someone physically. It begs to ask the question: "can it wait?"
"The intro ends with an emotional note that resonates strongly; it could have been cheesy but it works. So, they reboot the universe. We get some Kirk/Spock back story, and some brief moments at the academy. Wacky events occur, leaving most of our familiar characters aboard the Enterprise."
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After reading that and knowing that the casting was to appeal to the younger crowds, just for some reason, Varsity Blues and this (foo-fighters) comes into mind...
The ironic thing is that if Sun did all the items listed, they would be still out of business. The company wanted to make it big with its hardware and the "x86 movement" (i.e. commodity hardware) killed it--it was inevitable. Really, the list isn't why Sun failed, but more of why Linux has only a 1% market share today. Sun could have made Linux take off, we all would not be running Windows on "some-box" in our network, but they choose not to--hence why it is dead and why Linux is still where is was [at least] 5yrs ago.
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Sun had the same problems that SGI, Cray, Next, DEC, MIPS CS, Olivetti, HP and IBM: RISC CPUs and proprietary cores. Sun was able to hold out longer due to Solaris licenses. HP and IBM where big enough to make the turn to x86. Granted the list above has excellent points on what was key Sun technology, but if fulfilled, it would have only help Linux and not Sun.
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Also, if you think about it, if it wasn't for Sun and other RISC/MIPS manufactureers, Windows NT/XP/Vista would have been worse. Since NT was supported on RISC at one point in time, Microsoft had to cleanup their code base.
So if your computer was not connected and all you had were fat-clients. All you have for a database is what's on your computer, a la file system. That's it, and not the terabytes of data available in SaaS apps out there today.
Unless you're sneaker netting, you'll pretty much have no data for these applications. RMS should know better: that content is king, hence why SaaS-es were created in the 1st place.
Compared both running in VirtualBox on a windows XP machine.
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a. Install == faster +2
b. Bootup with autologin (about the same, Ubuntu's a bit faster) +1
c. Desktop LnF: OpenSuse hands down. Gnome is slicker on SuSE, KDE 4.x+Suse Additions is closer to an OSX level of polish. -2
d. "Slick"-ness (in Slashdot context). Same as OpenSuse 11.1 in gnome mode. It's just as fast. KDE has a bit more flash so it's a bit slower on my 2Ghz/Nvidia box. Videos play the same on both. Didn't try audio.. +0
e. g++ or CC availability out of the box? No... still. OpenSuse has it. -1
f. H/W compatibility. The same, OpenSuse 11.x really fixed those h/w detection issues and faster yast2 tools. +0, a wash
g. Desktop. Brown? Still!. OpenSuse green is for me. -1
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Looks like a narrow OpenSuSE (+1) win. 9.04 is a big win compared to older Ubuntu versions, but it has nothing over other distros, and more like it has caught up. The article is fine, the title is over-hyped.
Unfortunately, the iPhone OS works only on iPhones (and iPods) and I doubt on netbooks. Of course, until Apple rewrites the meaning of netbooks with their ultimate marketing machine... and such will release the "MacBook 'Vacuum': we took the air out The Air and made it even smaller and lighter!"
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Google Android, on the other hand has a big chance considering yesterday's demo on a netbook.
"Considering MS gained dominance through an operating system and an office suite, what Ellison did with just a database is quite remarkable."
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Ellison knows, as most of us:
Content is King (it's all about the data).
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That's why he was able to do it with just "a database". You need to give him credit, and they didn't even steal it (like MS as legend has it?), just borrowed it from the gov't.
Jdeveloper was licensed tech from Borland (for the wannbes that's JBuilder).
Because the Jdeveloper port from jbuilder was god-slow, they did a ground up rewrite back in 2003-ish. It's been home rolled upto today.
Having been on the devteam for Jdeveloper's jaxb (0.98!) modules and all I can say is Jdeveloper is pretty strict Java (READ: modular/portable), and very, very J2EE/Database centric. Where does Netbeans fit in? It fits in nicely as it will cover all the non-DB, non-Java centric development. The recent Netbeans is much more organized than Eclipse 3.4 and more modular (less of a framework like Eclipse, more of a Component architecture). I would easily see netbeans modules in Jdeveloper and vice versa. JDeveloper will become the new EA-developer app and Netbeans will move on.
As for MySQL. It will become the standalone DB. Oracle 10+ will move to big cloud/grid only DBs. OracleExpress may merge with MySQL.
As for OpenOffice, I see components reused with oracle specific tools--An SQLEditor with OOo components for example. OOo as a google apps competitor is still possible, oracle has the dev power. Data exchange (OLE-ish behavior) could become reality with OOo and Linux.
If you're a Redhat, OpenSuSE, Java, Oracle, JBoss developer, this is good news. A lot of cool things can come out of this. If your a Debian, Ubuntu, etc.. F/OSS user, you not going to see much change, except the above product lines just got a huge boost in production quality dev support than anything postgres, old-mysql, ubuntu, etc... has to offer.
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In all, Oracle or Google made the best suitors. Google would have made more sense (though they're a Python shop), but I'm glad this happened and I see the immediate synergy coming out of this. As for F/OSS, Oracle will likely keep the code free, but there will be "support" strings attached.
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Note: Look out Redhat. Larry's got you in his sites!
Sure I'll be willing to wait 6-8 years for this to happen. BUT if 14billions dollars doesn't result in a train leaving LA, NYC, BOS, or DC every hour to their routine destinations, I would call it a colossal failure on Obama's behalf.
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Because I know I can get a flight between LA and SF (for example) almost every freaking hour, today.
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In the US it's not a speed problem, it's a volume problem. Remember the Concord vs. the 747? We know who won in that scenario.
There are some departments where Oracle has allowed some freedoms to experiement, those that resulted in the rise of Oracle Text, XMLDB, and Jdev Core, OLS and indirectly with sleepycat and toplink--of course they are not flagship sellers in their product line, but ahead of their time back in the early 2000's.
Put Sun in those related groups and you'll see something on order of IBM Alphaworks and some cool results.
Oracle+Sun will make a good F/OSS ally. Oracle's main goal is DB licenses as they truly believe content is king (and needs to be managed). It is a different take from IBM, which used F/OSS to gain service contracts, which they needed to control the standards to force service frameworks on their customers. Oracle in the end, would rather just sell DBs rather than frameworks (though it makes them some good cash too). In the last 4 yrs. Oracle has gone back to core competencies where as IBM expanded their reach. As for H/W, it can offer new interesting business ventures (Oracle linux stack?).
Now the next in line and a great buyer would be Google. If that happens the whole Stanford brain trust will have come full circle and likely signal the end of the Stanford-Valley dominance. Really.
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Palm obviously squashed that today (no Apple news on the interwebs) with this. Cause now, Apple either responds with a lawsuit or iTunes patch (looks evil) or spins it and says it's a benefit of iTunes (and since everyone thinks iTunes is bloat ware, looks like a monopoly, hence evil) and continues the Palm discussion, i.e. advertisement away from iPhone v3.
Win-win for Palm.
Now Apple can ignore all this and hit hard with the iPhone v3 specs, say tomorrow (same day as Palm's release) and it will take the steam outta Palm and set them up for a normal WWDC. Apple better do something now cause the Pre reviews have been a. totally bias-crap to pretty good, gorgeous screen device--easliy an iPhone contender.
Just trying cupcake and honestly, once you use a keyboard, you'll never go back to a virtual keyboard. Never.
iThinking, therefore iDifferently. Classic Apple.
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Sounds like any other typical OSS business model from Ubuntu, Novell, RedHat, IBM, and even Microsoft.
Hence it took them 1 year to develop gmail, 1 year to get it into beta, and then 5 years to figure out what the heck they built (design), how to handle the traffic (system configuration), how to handle the users (requirements) and how to maintain it (documentation).
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Funny thing is if they did it in a non-agile way, it would have taken them the same time, and looking at the way they executed/deployed it, along with the popularity of Google, would have the same number of users within the year of a non-agile release. Gmail was developed in iterative fashion, but now has releases goto QA, CM, IV&V, etc... where all those fun development exercises end abruptly and the critical work begins.
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Either way, the developers are still over-worked and held to the fire. Now that's what we've learned from this gmail-beat exercise...
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Eclipse on the other hand is 76MB in C/C++ config. And that doesn't include the SVN plugin whereas Netbeans has it by default.
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Both IDEs have come along way. Netbeans has become lean-n-mean where as Eclipse is truly an IDE and framework.
iPod has thousand of apps that are useless, hence useless.
You pay either way so it's a win-win for Apple and MS.
Still, this plainly says: dysfunctional gov't.
And in the end, the gov't doesn't care about your private information: it's to expensive to maintain and they would be held accountable. They rather sell it to the highest bidder or sell the maintenance to the lowest bidder.
You need to get into a state of mind to satisfy all those needs to communicate (program) to a computer, hence a ritual makes you "focus" yourself into that state of mind.
Nothing new here, it is the highest point in the city (a big hill) and would make some sense to have some tunnels or rooms underground--I thought they were building an underground tunnel to The Good Guys bar (xxx) or JP's (which would make sense too) since it was behind the park. Then again, a basic shelter makes sense...
we need something for the atomic clock at least.
battery life reduced to 60min, 30, 10, 5, 1...
Therefore, pretty much a niche app.
If a life is not lost, there are no worries with cloud computing (hence, cloud computing should be used for non-life critical services, gmail is a perfect example).
Of course, VCs may have lost revenue, Capitalists may sweat from loss stock trades, teenagers may lose that one twitter about how cool Miley is to them, some adult may not get that date tonight from craigslist, you may miss that one Hulu commercial, some K-12 kid may not be able to send out his homework, some college kid can't access his pirate bay music lists, or the USPoTC may miss that extra minute to promote his stimulus bill.
In the end, I hope cloud services shows us that we are not slaves to time. The human race has advanced enough to know that already. And really, if "the cloud" is down for an hour, maybe you should go outside and enjoy the wonders of nature and peace for once, or talk to someone physically. It begs to ask the question: "can it wait?"
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After reading that and knowing that the casting was to appeal to the younger crowds, just for some reason, Varsity Blues and this (foo-fighters) comes into mind...
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Sun had the same problems that SGI, Cray, Next, DEC, MIPS CS, Olivetti, HP and IBM: RISC CPUs and proprietary cores. Sun was able to hold out longer due to Solaris licenses. HP and IBM where big enough to make the turn to x86. Granted the list above has excellent points on what was key Sun technology, but if fulfilled, it would have only help Linux and not Sun.
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Also, if you think about it, if it wasn't for Sun and other RISC/MIPS manufactureers, Windows NT/XP/Vista would have been worse. Since NT was supported on RISC at one point in time, Microsoft had to cleanup their code base.
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Interview Tip #1: Don't B*tch about your previous company during an interview! Wait until you get the job first.
iPhone should be merged with OSX, casue it is OSX. Just like Windows is WinMo/WM/PPC
Facebook - needs a networked database/store.
Google - needs a networked database/store.
WoW - needs a networked database/store.
StumbleUpon - needs a networked database/store.
Wikipedia - needs a networked database/store.
So if your computer was not connected and all you had were fat-clients. All you have for a database is what's on your computer, a la file system. That's it, and not the terabytes of data available in SaaS apps out there today.
Unless you're sneaker netting, you'll pretty much have no data for these applications. RMS should know better: that content is king, hence why SaaS-es were created in the 1st place.
.
a. Install == faster +2
b. Bootup with autologin (about the same, Ubuntu's a bit faster) +1
c. Desktop LnF: OpenSuse hands down. Gnome is slicker on SuSE, KDE 4.x+Suse Additions is closer to an OSX level of polish. -2
d. "Slick"-ness (in Slashdot context). Same as OpenSuse 11.1 in gnome mode. It's just as fast. KDE has a bit more flash so it's a bit slower on my 2Ghz/Nvidia box. Videos play the same on both. Didn't try audio.. +0
e. g++ or CC availability out of the box? No... still. OpenSuse has it. -1
f. H/W compatibility. The same, OpenSuse 11.x really fixed those h/w detection issues and faster yast2 tools. +0, a wash
g. Desktop. Brown? Still!. OpenSuse green is for me. -1
Looks like a narrow OpenSuSE (+1) win. 9.04 is a big win compared to older Ubuntu versions, but it has nothing over other distros, and more like it has caught up. The article is fine, the title is over-hyped.
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Google Android, on the other hand has a big chance considering yesterday's demo on a netbook.
.
Ellison knows, as most of us:
Content is King (it's all about the data).
.
That's why he was able to do it with just "a database". You need to give him credit, and they didn't even steal it (like MS as legend has it?), just borrowed it from the gov't.
Because the Jdeveloper port from jbuilder was god-slow, they did a ground up rewrite back in 2003-ish. It's been home rolled upto today.
Having been on the devteam for Jdeveloper's jaxb (0.98!) modules and all I can say is Jdeveloper is pretty strict Java (READ: modular/portable), and very, very J2EE/Database centric. Where does Netbeans fit in? It fits in nicely as it will cover all the non-DB, non-Java centric development. The recent Netbeans is much more organized than Eclipse 3.4 and more modular (less of a framework like Eclipse, more of a Component architecture). I would easily see netbeans modules in Jdeveloper and vice versa. JDeveloper will become the new EA-developer app and Netbeans will move on.
As for MySQL. It will become the standalone DB. Oracle 10+ will move to big cloud/grid only DBs. OracleExpress may merge with MySQL.
As for OpenOffice, I see components reused with oracle specific tools--An SQLEditor with OOo components for example. OOo as a google apps competitor is still possible, oracle has the dev power. Data exchange (OLE-ish behavior) could become reality with OOo and Linux.
If you're a Redhat, OpenSuSE, Java, Oracle, JBoss developer, this is good news. A lot of cool things can come out of this. If your a Debian, Ubuntu, etc.. F/OSS user, you not going to see much change, except the above product lines just got a huge boost in production quality dev support than anything postgres, old-mysql, ubuntu, etc... has to offer.
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In all, Oracle or Google made the best suitors. Google would have made more sense (though they're a Python shop), but I'm glad this happened and I see the immediate synergy coming out of this. As for F/OSS, Oracle will likely keep the code free, but there will be "support" strings attached.
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Note: Look out Redhat. Larry's got you in his sites!
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Because I know I can get a flight between LA and SF (for example) almost every freaking hour, today.
.
In the US it's not a speed problem, it's a volume problem. Remember the Concord vs. the 747? We know who won in that scenario.
Put Sun in those related groups and you'll see something on order of IBM Alphaworks and some cool results.
Oracle+Sun will make a good F/OSS ally. Oracle's main goal is DB licenses as they truly believe content is king (and needs to be managed). It is a different take from IBM, which used F/OSS to gain service contracts, which they needed to control the standards to force service frameworks on their customers. Oracle in the end, would rather just sell DBs rather than frameworks (though it makes them some good cash too). In the last 4 yrs. Oracle has gone back to core competencies where as IBM expanded their reach. As for H/W, it can offer new interesting business ventures (Oracle linux stack?).
Now the next in line and a great buyer would be Google. If that happens the whole Stanford brain trust will have come full circle and likely signal the end of the Stanford-Valley dominance. Really.