Oracle's main product functions in a cluster quite well for normal business use. With 12 to 48 core chips in a single x86-64 processor, the advantage for scalability of the Sun kind (32 to 256 cores per machine) will disappear in the next year. The price/performance will favor 8 chip SMP x86-64 systems or clusters of them to run Oracle. UltraSparc is dead meat.
Look at the bigger picture, Solaris as distribution. for past five years or more, Solaris (as an OS distribution) has been borrowing heavily from GNU/Linux distribution ideas, packages and features. From a sys admin's point of view, Solaris 9 and 10 administration has become navigating a maze of cobbled together disjoint pile of utilities, very inconsistent and not unified.
Solaris is dying, losing market share, a has-been also-ran.
Linux (the kernel) gets contributions from the giant OS players on the planet, HP and IBM, besides over 300 other companies. Linux (the kernel including device drivers/modules) gets the mindshare and contribution of almost four thousand developers. Sun finally realized (after making FUD about Linux during initial SCO lawsuit years) they needed that kind of momentum and mindshare and so started OpenSolaris, but it was way too little way too late.
don't know why people post about OpenSolaris when speaking of major Oracle project directions, it is a minuscule niche project that isn't used by business. It hardly matters to Oracle's (nor 99.999999% of the world's) future whether OpenSolaris flops or succeeds.
I like the ones that call or email about job that pays half what I make now, is 700 miles away, and employer will not cover relocation nor any other expenses. Even better is all that for 3 or 4 month "opportunity". Yes, could you please write the description of that glorious opportunity onto some heavy weight paper, fold into origami with all sharp edges, and jam it two feet up into your rectum?"
6 axis, yep count 'em six, CNC mills have been around for over 25 years, my father's company sold one with over 10 meter table that was used to cut out propellers for submarines. they had another multi-axis one (don't remember how many) that had 40 meter long bed.
nope, the people who are worth anything are thrown out the door first prior to or right after merger/acquisition, the cheap rate tards are left behind.
The really classy HR and Recruiter turds put down requirements for years of experience greater than the time the technology has been in existence. For developers, 16 years J2EE required! 10 years.NET a must! 8+ years Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployment!
Bonus points for confounding distribution release numbers and internal software version numbers, or assuming only RedHat distributes GNU/Linux.
not computer literate, are you shitting me? my parents, born in 1941 and 1942, are quite skilled with search engine, eBay with Paypal, online classified ads for tools and equipment, e-mail, digital photo software, word processing, OCR, spreadsheets, mapquest....using computer as a tool like most other people.
not shit, I work for HP VAR and we sell systems that have hundreds of spindles in disk arrays. And a few millions of dollars spent on hardware is chicken shit compared to total cost of major project.
the Tandem Guardian/NonStop has been done on so very many different processors over the years, I don't see why they couldn't do using x86-64. They long, long ago dumped the internal checking of processors, instead only checking results of instructions externally between pairs to possibly invalidate the pair in a module if mismatch.
I would agree for any other processor, the Xeon could do emulation of microcode (MIPS, PPC, Ultrasparc)... but not Itanium2 set, it's totally pathological, and also built for parallelism only exploitable with a "magic compiler" that no one's been able to write.
won't do any good for the Itanium2 owners if the Xeons can't run the IA-64 instruction set. The features Intel just brought to xeon from Itanium include MCA (machine check architecture recovery from failures), security and virtual machine migration. But not binary compatibility. But maybe HP will port VMS, NonStop, and HP/UX to the new, improved bullet-proof x86-64 (only with with appropriate supporting chipsets, of course)
yes, but at least RedHat will support the Enterprise 5 on Itanium2 until 2014. I work for an HP VAR and I've *never* seen any HP Integrity run any Linux but RedHat though there are a few other distros out there.
Itanium has not been worth it in terms of price/performance for a while
Actually, in many categories, it does. Depends on the work to be done. For example, HP Integrity Superdome with HP/UX leads in price / performance and performance running TCP-H on 10 or 30TB Oracle database. Some on numerical benchmarks that are heavily SMP.
I don't like the Itanium, but certain database and numerical workloads it still kicks everyone else's butts.
sorry kid, but your linked analysis proves my point, your initial assertion of 90% was B.S.
Your thinly veiled racism fails to impress.
hah! the racism is between your ears, I've flushed you out, racist! You had some racial group that came to mind when you read my words, but I can show you examples of what I'm saying using any major racial group in the USA. Their are european-descent "white" cities with the problem I've mentioned in Ohio, the problem exists in African descent "black" Chicago south side, the problem exists with some of the Latin parts of L.A.,.....the principal is universal to all races in the event of breakdown of family structure.
my wife and her cousin were mugged in full view of police camera on Argyle street ("vietnamese town"), and the images from the camera on telephone pole were utterly useless. couldn't see under hat brim to see face, the perps know they can just keep their chin slightly down with a cap and they can rob, rape, and murder in camera shot. the percentage of crimes solved using those camera pictures is in the realm of statistical noise.
Good decent people own guns in illinois and have their FOID card, but they aren't the ones doing drive by shooting or holding up liquor stores or banks. But that idiot hypocrite Mayor Daley, who relies on armed people for protection, says gun ownership by good decent law-abiding people (the ones who don't have guns in chicago right now) having the means to defend themselves would mean an explosion of crime. what a moron, both my brothers live in states that allow concealed carry, and in both their cities of residence the crime rate has plummeted.
not amazing at good, huge difference between decent law-abiding citizens exercising their constitutional right to bear arms, and evil lawless savages banding together in gangs who have no regard for human life or for morality. Already a proven fact that lawful concealed carry reduces crime rate.
you link to a lie, propaganda by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs that has been debunked. Only 17% of Mexican guns confiscated were traceable at all, the others were from non-US foreign countries and without means of tracing. But you believe the anti-guns lies of a U.S. agency because it suits your anti-gun bias.
The high murder rates in the U.S.A. occur in areas with subcultures that have breakdown of family structure. No father to raise and keep young males in line means a sufficient number of them act as savages to turn a neighborhood into a lawless war zone.
That has nothing to do with gun ownership by normal law-abiding citizens, you rabid anti-gun nuts need to stop implying I or people like me will act as lawless savages with our guns because other groups of people have not the maturity or respect for human life to be trusted with the means to defend themselves.
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what about them?
http://www.nnoble.com/Capabilities/CNCMachining/CNC_Milling.htm
One problem, the next generation of sparc, VIIIfx, is designed by Fujitsu who might have totally non-Oracle goals in mind.
Now if you mean Niagra-3, haven't heard any recent news from Oracle about that.
Oracle's main product functions in a cluster quite well for normal business use. With 12 to 48 core chips in a single x86-64 processor, the advantage for scalability of the Sun kind (32 to 256 cores per machine) will disappear in the next year. The price/performance will favor 8 chip SMP x86-64 systems or clusters of them to run Oracle. UltraSparc is dead meat.
Look at the bigger picture, Solaris as distribution. for past five years or more, Solaris (as an OS distribution) has been borrowing heavily from GNU/Linux distribution ideas, packages and features. From a sys admin's point of view, Solaris 9 and 10 administration has become navigating a maze of cobbled together disjoint pile of utilities, very inconsistent and not unified.
Solaris is dying, losing market share, a has-been also-ran.
Linux (the kernel) gets contributions from the giant OS players on the planet, HP and IBM, besides over 300 other companies. Linux (the kernel including device drivers/modules) gets the mindshare and contribution of almost four thousand developers. Sun finally realized (after making FUD about Linux during initial SCO lawsuit years) they needed that kind of momentum and mindshare and so started OpenSolaris, but it was way too little way too late.
don't know why people post about OpenSolaris when speaking of major Oracle project directions, it is a minuscule niche project that isn't used by business. It hardly matters to Oracle's (nor 99.999999% of the world's) future whether OpenSolaris flops or succeeds.
I like the ones that call or email about job that pays half what I make now, is 700 miles away, and employer will not cover relocation nor any other expenses. Even better is all that for 3 or 4 month "opportunity". Yes, could you please write the description of that glorious opportunity onto some heavy weight paper, fold into origami with all sharp edges, and jam it two feet up into your rectum?"
6 axis, yep count 'em six, CNC mills have been around for over 25 years, my father's company sold one with over 10 meter table that was used to cut out propellers for submarines. they had another multi-axis one (don't remember how many) that had 40 meter long bed.
nope, the people who are worth anything are thrown out the door first prior to or right after merger/acquisition, the cheap rate tards are left behind.
The really classy HR and Recruiter turds put down requirements for years of experience greater than the time the technology has been in existence. For developers, 16 years J2EE required! 10 years .NET a must! 8+ years Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployment!
Bonus points for confounding distribution release numbers and internal software version numbers, or assuming only RedHat distributes GNU/Linux.
not computer literate, are you shitting me? my parents, born in 1941 and 1942, are quite skilled with search engine, eBay with Paypal, online classified ads for tools and equipment, e-mail, digital photo software, word processing, OCR, spreadsheets, mapquest....using computer as a tool like most other people.
doubtful USers being overweight is due to hamburgers, more likely excessive simple carb intake keeps blood triglycerides high
not shit, I work for HP VAR and we sell systems that have hundreds of spindles in disk arrays. And a few millions of dollars spent on hardware is chicken shit compared to total cost of major project.
the most accurate rely on atoms in a very artificial man-made condition, being tossed upward in laser "atomic fountain".
there are still other viable possibilities depending on needs, for instance Redhat or SuSe on PowerPC or zSeries.
the Tandem Guardian/NonStop has been done on so very many different processors over the years, I don't see why they couldn't do using x86-64. They long, long ago dumped the internal checking of processors, instead only checking results of instructions externally between pairs to possibly invalidate the pair in a module if mismatch.
I would agree for any other processor, the Xeon could do emulation of microcode (MIPS, PPC, Ultrasparc)... but not Itanium2 set, it's totally pathological, and also built for parallelism only exploitable with a "magic compiler" that no one's been able to write.
won't do any good for the Itanium2 owners if the Xeons can't run the IA-64 instruction set. The features Intel just brought to xeon from Itanium include MCA (machine check architecture recovery from failures), security and virtual machine migration. But not binary compatibility. But maybe HP will port VMS, NonStop, and HP/UX to the new, improved bullet-proof x86-64 (only with with appropriate supporting chipsets, of course)
or upgrade from Alpha (for VMS shops) or upgrade from MIPS for NonStop shops
yes, but at least RedHat will support the Enterprise 5 on Itanium2 until 2014. I work for an HP VAR and I've *never* seen any HP Integrity run any Linux but RedHat though there are a few other distros out there.
Itanium has not been worth it in terms of price/performance for a while
Actually, in many categories, it does. Depends on the work to be done. For example, HP Integrity Superdome with HP/UX leads in price / performance and performance running TCP-H on 10 or 30TB Oracle database. Some on numerical benchmarks that are heavily SMP.
I don't like the Itanium, but certain database and numerical workloads it still kicks everyone else's butts.
there will be in a day or so
sorry kid, but your linked analysis proves my point, your initial assertion of 90% was B.S.
Your thinly veiled racism fails to impress.
hah! the racism is between your ears, I've flushed you out, racist! You had some racial group that came to mind when you read my words, but I can show you examples of what I'm saying using any major racial group in the USA. Their are european-descent "white" cities with the problem I've mentioned in Ohio, the problem exists in African descent "black" Chicago south side, the problem exists with some of the Latin parts of L.A.,.....the principal is universal to all races in the event of breakdown of family structure.
my wife and her cousin were mugged in full view of police camera on Argyle street ("vietnamese town"), and the images from the camera on telephone pole were utterly useless. couldn't see under hat brim to see face, the perps know they can just keep their chin slightly down with a cap and they can rob, rape, and murder in camera shot. the percentage of crimes solved using those camera pictures is in the realm of statistical noise.
Good decent people own guns in illinois and have their FOID card, but they aren't the ones doing drive by shooting or holding up liquor stores or banks. But that idiot hypocrite Mayor Daley, who relies on armed people for protection, says gun ownership by good decent law-abiding people (the ones who don't have guns in chicago right now) having the means to defend themselves would mean an explosion of crime. what a moron, both my brothers live in states that allow concealed carry, and in both their cities of residence the crime rate has plummeted.
not amazing at good, huge difference between decent law-abiding citizens exercising their constitutional right to bear arms, and evil lawless savages banding together in gangs who have no regard for human life or for morality. Already a proven fact that lawful concealed carry reduces crime rate.
you link to a lie, propaganda by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs that has been debunked. Only 17% of Mexican guns confiscated were traceable at all, the others were from non-US foreign countries and without means of tracing. But you believe the anti-guns lies of a U.S. agency because it suits your anti-gun bias.
The high murder rates in the U.S.A. occur in areas with subcultures that have breakdown of family structure. No father to raise and keep young males in line means a sufficient number of them act as savages to turn a neighborhood into a lawless war zone.
That has nothing to do with gun ownership by normal law-abiding citizens, you rabid anti-gun nuts need to stop implying I or people like me will act as lawless savages with our guns because other groups of people have not the maturity or respect for human life to be trusted with the means to defend themselves.