Actually, they are. A number of senior Republican and Democratic congressmen sued President Obama a few days ago in federal court to resolve this very issue.
OpenServer and UnixWare aren't that bad. They're a little archaic in some ways, but I wouldn't say decisively worse than HP-UX or AIX (UNIX with a registry? Really??). The problem is that they have been barely updated since SCO's dive into litigationary self-destruction. There are still a fair number of customers running these platforms, although I expect most of them are planning to migrate.
SCO wasn't a scam. SCO was a legitimate company, with a very decent product and a large customer base, that was run into the ground by apparently-deranged corporate management.
Apple made a good choice going with native applications for the iPhone, even though I detest the OS itself. The other OS vendors picking Java or.NET bytecode runtimes was really a strange choice for resource-limited devices.
It's been widely known for years that IBM Power is on top by quite a bit, with Itanium in distant second and SPARC occasionally catching up. SPARC has been fading for years though, as Oracle's own revenue figures strongly imply.
I'm curious, have you seen any of the SPEC_cpu benchmarks on SPARC64? You know, the ones that put a quad SPARC64 VII+ at performance roughly equivalent to a dual-core Phenom that's ~99% cheaper? How about the ones that show no marginal advantage of a SPARC T3 over a Magny-Cours Opteron, even when continiously saturated with threads, again with a vastly cheaper acquisition cost?
"A few hundred?" Tens of thousands, minimum. NSK and VMS alone have a few thousand users each, and HP-UX is much bigger than either. Learn about the industry before sounding off.
How is it a giant flop? It passed SPARC sales years ago. VMS, HP-UX, and NSK all have thousands of customers with no obvious migration path and billions invested in the platform. For these customers, Itanium works fine, and has certain advantages (socket compatibility over multiple generations, for instance) and no obvious reason to dump it.
On the other hand, you totally lost credibility when you said SPARC was "beating the Itanic." (looking up sales or performance figures from the last 3-4 years would be educational.)
You don't think the EU has serious racism? Look at how well the anti-(Roma,Arab,Turk,Slovak,Russian) parties do in elections. I'm conservative, but the increasing influence of the far right on European politics is a little alarming.
Porting C code between architectures is a pain in the ass. Endianness issues alone can fuck up plenty of code, without even getting into differences in compilers and standard libraries.
Things like porting from one UNIX to another UNIX on a different arch - stuff that most armchair programmers view as "just recompile" - can take hundreds of man-hours or more on complex codebases. C is not portable.
Mango addresses probably 90% of the disparity between WP7 and Android. The question is whether Microsoft can get it out on time and with compelling devices.
Did you read your own article? It specifically says that even the "real" number is about a trillion dollars. The US debt is between $14tn and $15tn. What universe do you live in that has the kind of math where 1/14 is "almost half"?
The real question is who's left for the enemy - the Covenant became allies in Halo 3, and the Flood are dead. Hopefully they'll do something reasonably creative.
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Actually, they are. A number of senior Republican and Democratic congressmen sued President Obama a few days ago in federal court to resolve this very issue.
The President is a Republican? Or did you forget the fact that this is his war, and the pressure against it is largely coming from Republicans?
OpenServer and UnixWare aren't that bad. They're a little archaic in some ways, but I wouldn't say decisively worse than HP-UX or AIX (UNIX with a registry? Really??). The problem is that they have been barely updated since SCO's dive into litigationary self-destruction. There are still a fair number of customers running these platforms, although I expect most of them are planning to migrate.
SCO wasn't a scam. SCO was a legitimate company, with a very decent product and a large customer base, that was run into the ground by apparently-deranged corporate management.
It's always been enough to "do" things traditionally done with C/C++. The problem is that it does it one or two orders of magnitude slower.
Apple made a good choice going with native applications for the iPhone, even though I detest the OS itself. The other OS vendors picking Java or .NET bytecode runtimes was really a strange choice for resource-limited devices.
I'm pretty sure Microsoft has better things to do than worry about $12k worth of Zunes. This is a company with tens of billions in revenue.
It's been widely known for years that IBM Power is on top by quite a bit, with Itanium in distant second and SPARC occasionally catching up. SPARC has been fading for years though, as Oracle's own revenue figures strongly imply.
Er, no they weren't. Oracle's total (x64 and SPARC) sales for Q1 were $798mn. The total RISC-UNIX market for Q1 was about $2.6bn. IBM's POWER sales were $1.2bn. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/26/gartner_q1_2011_server_numbers/
I'm curious, are you on the Oracle payroll?
I'm curious, have you seen any of the SPEC_cpu benchmarks on SPARC64? You know, the ones that put a quad SPARC64 VII+ at performance roughly equivalent to a dual-core Phenom that's ~99% cheaper? How about the ones that show no marginal advantage of a SPARC T3 over a Magny-Cours Opteron, even when continiously saturated with threads, again with a vastly cheaper acquisition cost?
Didn't think so...
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q2/
"A few hundred?" Tens of thousands, minimum. NSK and VMS alone have a few thousand users each, and HP-UX is much bigger than either. Learn about the industry before sounding off.
How is it a giant flop? It passed SPARC sales years ago. VMS, HP-UX, and NSK all have thousands of customers with no obvious migration path and billions invested in the platform. For these customers, Itanium works fine, and has certain advantages (socket compatibility over multiple generations, for instance) and no obvious reason to dump it.
On the other hand, you totally lost credibility when you said SPARC was "beating the Itanic." (looking up sales or performance figures from the last 3-4 years would be educational.)
Nope. Not remotely similar. Thanks for playing though.
Why would you? Do you really want an OS where applications are written in HTML and Javascript? Why the fuck would anyone think that's a good idea?
Or are you one of those people that prefers C++/MFC and VB6?
You don't think the EU has serious racism? Look at how well the anti-(Roma,Arab,Turk,Slovak,Russian) parties do in elections. I'm conservative, but the increasing influence of the far right on European politics is a little alarming.
Porting C code between architectures is a pain in the ass. Endianness issues alone can fuck up plenty of code, without even getting into differences in compilers and standard libraries.
Things like porting from one UNIX to another UNIX on a different arch - stuff that most armchair programmers view as "just recompile" - can take hundreds of man-hours or more on complex codebases. C is not portable.
Mango addresses probably 90% of the disparity between WP7 and Android. The question is whether Microsoft can get it out on time and with compelling devices.
Anyone that measures aggregate CPU performance on a cluster in "GHz" is an idiot.
Did you read your own article? It specifically says that even the "real" number is about a trillion dollars. The US debt is between $14tn and $15tn. What universe do you live in that has the kind of math where 1/14 is "almost half"?
The debt to the PRC is a tiny percentage of the US's total national debt. Stop repeating the "PRC owns the US" meme, because it's stupid.
Burma Shave.
The real question is who's left for the enemy - the Covenant became allies in Halo 3, and the Flood are dead. Hopefully they'll do something reasonably creative.
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Actually, Microsoft has specifically said that the 360 does not use Windows, merely a Win32-like API.
The version the OEM's use is the OHA version, which differs from the open-source (AOSP) tree. They pay money for licenses.