They are pretty smart about that.
They will never fire a big number of Sun employees, otherwise the market will turn their back on SPARC and they will loose precious support contracts (and ORACLE loves support contracts).
As parent said, they will put Sun employees on as low as possible salaries waiting for them to quit by themselves. Remember that the current currency war between nations helps companies pay less to employees simply by not raising salaries and letting inflation do her work.
Overall ORACLE bought JAVA for far less money it would have cost them to develop it themselves.
Larry is better that Warren Buffet ot buying value.
Well, it would really be interesting to know what company you are working on, at least it is not what I'm seeing in the market.
What I do see a lot is companies complaining that is hard to hire people with the required skills THAT ARE WILLING TO WORK FOR LITTLE MONEY.
As Kevin Costner said "If you pay enough, they will come."
I like Sony PS3 approach to copyright. "Make the thing as hard as possible to hack so they will have to buy games from me." So far so good, and no litigation involved.
I remember reading an article at MacWorld Magazine about how they create two teams at Apple, one went to a complete rewrite of the MacOS to Power with no backwards compatibility (that was the primary team that the company bet tu succeed) and a second one that was the plan B. This plan B team was requested to write an emulator to reuse as much as possible of MacOS software.
When finally the B team end his job the A team was call out to try to brake the B team implementation. They even tried using 360Kb 3.5inch floppies. But finally the B team won, and it was a good migration from 680x0 to PowerPC.
Nice history, if someone can find an URL about this it is welcome.
If EX delivers the expected performance, it will have the same performance per socket than Power7, but half the threads. I prefer the better single thread performance of EX than Power7.
Time will always be the more importan factor. Though I would like to see a single 6 Score to the comment that recieved more mod points in the first 24 hours.
Communications is the most important part at this moment, to speed up the access to water and other basic sirvival needs. The more people connected the fastest they can move to the suply places.
But remember that retail price below 100 USD is extremely difficult becouse of shipping cost from Chine, retail space, etc.
I bought an ASUS Eee PC 900A refurbished for 149 USD from Ebay, so add a VNC client (or the Goole remote desktop software they have just opensourced) and you have a pretty decent solution.
The thin client idea is not about low price, is about beeing stateless. Here in Argentina I work with an ensurance company that has 100% of its apps web based, so they dont need and remote desktop solution, just a plain and simple browser (they can even use a chumby!).
Sorry but I dont understand how having to a lot of electricity through "solar power and a space tether" allows a satelite to "stay in its current orbit". For what I know you need action-reaction force to keep a satelite in orbit. In fact the reason satelites stop operating is becouse the run out of propelant. Please explain.
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Correction, 5.4B, since Sun had 2B+ in cash.
Very cheap if you compare that with 10B for BEA.
That's so true, it is problematic to have on board someone who wants to leave, even if he is good at his work.
I have no idea how to mod you app, but you deserve it.
They are pretty smart about that.
They will never fire a big number of Sun employees, otherwise the market will turn their back on SPARC and they will loose precious support contracts (and ORACLE loves support contracts).
As parent said, they will put Sun employees on as low as possible salaries waiting for them to quit by themselves. Remember that the current currency war between nations helps companies pay less to employees simply by not raising salaries and letting inflation do her work.
Overall ORACLE bought JAVA for far less money it would have cost them to develop it themselves.
Larry is better that Warren Buffet ot buying value.
Well, it would really be interesting to know what company you are working on, at least it is not what I'm seeing in the market.
What I do see a lot is companies complaining that is hard to hire people with the required skills THAT ARE WILLING TO WORK FOR LITTLE MONEY.
As Kevin Costner said "If you pay enough, they will come."
So ORACLE payed 10B for BEA, that only has one good application server.
They payed 5B for Sun, that has the real JAVA IP.
If everyone from Sun leaves ORACLE it is still a very good buy.
I try to buy the fastest single thread processor my budget allows. I go to
http://www.spec.org/cgi-bin/osgresults?conf=cint2006&op=form
and run a query sorting in the "Key" "Primary" by "Baseline" Descending and then choose the fastes one I can buy. Easy and works for me.
I prefer Baseline because plenty of program are poorly compiled, without any optimization flag.
I like Sony PS3 approach to copyright. "Make the thing as hard as possible to hack so they will have to buy games from me." So far so good, and no litigation involved.
I remember reading an article at MacWorld Magazine about how they create two teams at Apple, one went to a complete rewrite of the MacOS to Power with no backwards compatibility (that was the primary team that the company bet tu succeed) and a second one that was the plan B. This plan B team was requested to write an emulator to reuse as much as possible of MacOS software.
When finally the B team end his job the A team was call out to try to brake the B team implementation. They even tried using 360Kb 3.5inch floppies. But finally the B team won, and it was a good migration from 680x0 to PowerPC.
Nice history, if someone can find an URL about this it is welcome.
According to Safra Catz they did this out of stupidity ""Integrity matters... Don't be afraid to look stupid over integrity."
http://www.examiner.com/x-43195-SF-Technology-Examiner~y2010m5d11-Oracle-President-Safra-Catz-shares-wisdom-at-PBWC-Annual-Conference
SPARC T2 has is 100% GPL Verilog.
It seems that the pneumonia was coused by Swine Flu
This news came just when IPO is beeing talked inside FaceBook... perfect timing, isnt it ?
With JaiBrake iPhones you can export the 3G data plan through Wi-Fi. Theres no way they can stop this.
If EX delivers the expected performance, it will have the same performance per socket than Power7, but half the threads. I prefer the better single thread performance of EX than Power7.
Time will always be the more importan factor. Though I would like to see a single 6 Score to the comment that recieved more mod points in the first 24 hours.
Ok, according to http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:expandcategory?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087¤t-category-id=0549C687E3D24BBD998B20D96BBB1281 the Lenovo S10 Starts at 330 USD. Can you please post a reference for the 250 USD ?
I also payed 150 USD for my 900A, but it was refurbished on Ebay. A new one is 350 USD and that is what you need to compare this laptop against.
Go to Ebay and look for Asus 900A refurbished. Thats it
Communications is the most important part at this moment, to speed up the access to water and other basic sirvival needs. The more people connected the fastest they can move to the suply places.
But remember that retail price below 100 USD is extremely difficult becouse of shipping cost from Chine, retail space, etc.
I bought an ASUS Eee PC 900A refurbished for 149 USD from Ebay, so add a VNC client (or the Goole remote desktop software they have just opensourced) and you have a pretty decent solution.
The thin client idea is not about low price, is about beeing stateless. Here in Argentina I work with an ensurance company that has 100% of its apps web based, so they dont need and remote desktop solution, just a plain and simple browser (they can even use a chumby!).
Except is someone develop nanofactories that can manipulate single atoms to create whatever they need...
Well.. a better option is to use some other form of energy storage (flyweel, etc.).
The easiest one that you can build yourself (if you are a Slashdot Hobbyst) is the water energy storage.
Please go to http://www.electricitystorage.org/site/technologies/
And the chart http://electricity.ehclients.com/images/uploads/capital.gif
Pumped Hydro is one of the best choices, and very simple to implement.
Trust me, calculus is a must to program scalable code for huge Internet facing apps.
Sorry but I dont understand how having to a lot of electricity through "solar power and a space tether" allows a satelite to "stay in its current orbit". For what I know you need action-reaction force to keep a satelite in orbit. In fact the reason satelites stop operating is becouse the run out of propelant.
Please explain.