Actually the reason why VMware will use a slower approach is becouse of Xen.
If there's any condition were HW virtualization is slower than SW virtualization, you need to use it or lose to Xen Source.
Don't get me wrong, I work with VMware in Argentina and the guys that sells VMware here are really great to work with. I love the technology and the easy it is to manage it. But certeanly Xen+HW virtualization changes everything....
The worst thing that VMware has is the the EULA prohibits publishing benchmarks... so is really easy to assume that you will go with the slower approach only to take Xen out...
The simplest way to solve this is to get any valid SAP SD 2-tier benchmark ( www.sap.com/benchmark ) on a non-HW virtualization capable system (ie. Opteron 880) and run the same benchmark on two different VM using VMware, showing that the SAPs combined of the two partitions equals the number achieved without partitioning. Obviously you will need to use exactly the same HW, guest OS, database and ERP release, achieveng the same dialog-steps response time...
If you can do it with this benchmark, you will be much better on Corporate Credibility.
What this means is that if you have some money and you can only perform one initial buy and then you have to live with your choice, the best thing to buy will be the more diversified found with the lower comission. Personally I like ETINX (disclaimer, I'm not afiliated in any way with Etrade)...
What I like about this, is that as RMS once said that exchanging freedom for convineance is a big mistake (regarding the BitKeeper affair), the same thing can be said about GPL.
This Guy Traded freedom (he used a GPLed code) for convineance (the GPL code he used was the easiest route).
Now he have a simple solution. Go with OpenSolaris and its CDDL license won't force you to do things you don't want to do (what is happenning know to this poor guy).
GPL is contraire to freedom, its forces you to post source code, there's not option about this...
As RMS stated about Bitkeeper, if you trade fredom for conviniance, sooner or later you will loose. GPL takes your freedom away (forces you to do things you might not want to do), CDDL gives it back to you.
In fact Sun had a e-Gast Station concept that used JAVA enabled microcontrollers for the dispensers... just Google for JAVA microcontroller and you will find plenty of references.
Acording to www.gnu.org: "The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX like operating system which is free software: the GNU system"
GNU/Linux is only the OS part of the system, you still need the hardware part.
Nowadays, thanks to OpenSolaris + OpenSPARC + GNU we have a mainstream 100% Open Source system (Oerating System + software + hardware).
Thanks Richard, but your service is not longer required;-)
Acording to www.gnu.org: "The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX like operating system which is free software: the GNU system"
Of course we have GNU/Linux, but that's only the OS part of the system, you still need the hardware part.
Nowadays, thanks to OpenSolaris + OpenSPARC + GNU we have a mainstream 100% Open Source system (Oerating System + software + hardware).
Thanks Richard, but your service is not longer required;-)
- An easy way to force child to read is to only install Lynx as web-browaser.
- The school only test for verbal linguistic skills. Lets start by measuring every single kind of intelligence and development of the child. Any kind of intelligence can help the lack of other.
If you don't need any fancy feature, you will be better of with a cheap digital camera that have no moving parts on it. The Olympus Stylus Verve looks grate. It's water resistant, cheat, very nice overall. It's movie mode have a 320x200 pixels resolution (half a mini-DV camera) and can store 21 minutes of movies in a 512MB card... If you need better resolution camera, you can get the Sony Cyber-shot® DSC-S40 that has a 640x480 movie mode with 30fps, but it's not water resistant...
Any digital camera will last far longer than a camera that have moving parts...
TrueSync is great. I use IntelliSync for YAHOO and keep my calendar and ToDo on my Yahoo acount syncronized with my Palm, OutLook and CellPhone easely... If I'm away from any of my devices, I only need a browswer with Yahoo access (all public libraries do) to read my Calendar.
Disclaimer: I work for Sun. I really think both OSes are great. Perhaps since I know a lot more about Solaris than Linux (although I use both) I like the first the most. The point here is which have the clearest growth path for the foresible future. I really thinks that now that the bitkeeper issue will be solved shortly, Linux have a clearer roadmap. Although Sun is a great company (with more than 5 billion in cash), Solaris is closely attach to Sun's future, but Linux have no personal attachment at all (I really belive that even if Linus wants stop working on it, Linux will sirve and will keep improving). I also believe that the OpenSolaris iniciative is a great way to solve this problem, but it has yet to prove itself, although adding Roy Fielding (who helped write the original Apache software) looks like a great idea. In either case, what the Bitkeeper issue showed was that, as Benjamin Franklin said "Anyone who would trade freedom for safety deserves neither." Or put in another way, is better to use a bad OpenSoruce product than a great Propietary one. I also thinks that Sun's have been wrongly attack for its CDDL license. It's really as close as you can get to the Mozilla license, and noone is attacking them for that. Both licenses allow the use of the software without beeing force to post improvements (what seems to be the "evil" part of Sun's CDDL). But even that wont create any problem for a user that's currently running a software release under CDDL (not possible Bitkeeper alike abuse). The only "problem" is that anyone is able to improve the software that was release under CDDL and re-release it under the license they want (exactly the same happens with MySQL and noone is complaining....).
In fact, who solve the electricity storage problem will get rich inmediately. Nowdays, there's no good alternative, as you can see at http://www.electricitystorage.org/ For transportation I ise a byke-train combo for long distances. I save energy (after boats, trains are the cheapest transports) and get fit at once!
The reviewer miss in his zones explanation the part about Resource Manager. This is simply a zSeries like WorkLoad Manager tool. It allows to assign processing power per process and per zone, and also physical and virtual memory per user. Simply put, if you have 3 process running, you can assign each process 1/3rd of the processing power of the system, 1/3rd of the physical memory to each process (so no process force a page-out for all the others), and the same amount of virtual memory as the hole system memory (as long as the working set for each process fits in) to avoid memory leak problems. Other point is that the installer have a bug and although it asks if you want the 1st CD to auto pop-up, it wont work, you need to take it out before it starts the installation all over again. Some bouilds have a message reporting this error (instead of fixing it...). Binary compatibility is withit the ABI for the same platform (obviously, you can't move a SPARC binary to an Opteron box). The good part is that source files will written using the standar ABI will recompily straight. The main-point with any other OS than Linux is that rigth-now companies seems more likely to die than the hole Linux movement (or however you want to call it).
Well.. the "opteron provides nearly the performance of their sparc at a cheaper price" part is not like that. In fact Opteron is way Faster than SPARC... Just check http://www50.sap.com/benchmark/sd2tier.asp and look for SPARC and Opteron results... You got 810 SAPs per 1.2GHz US-IV and a ProLiant DL385 got 1475 SAPs per Opteron 252...
The reason every single enterprise exists is for profit. There are only three enterprises that doesn't have profit as its main reason of existance. Those are call "heroic" enterprises. Mainly, army, religion (church), and health (although in USA this last one is a false statement, since there exists many hospitals that doesn't pay taxes but have serveral millions of dollars in the bank, when they should only have as litlle as necesary to subsist).
Actually, as a corolary, "he who buys what he doesn't need, is stealing himself".
Seriously, when I bought my Apple Newton MessagePad (first serie, no number) back in '93, I did bougth what I didn't need... I'm planning on selling it on Ebay though... Ebay is great to get rid of bad bougths... There's always a Slashdot reader target... jeje
As far as I remember, the Grumman F-14 airplane has a pneumatic computer as a backup just in case it needs to use its nuclear-warehead air-air Phoenix misilles, since the electromagnetic pulse would fry all its electronic fly-by-wire systems...
Ok, I'm a Sun employee... but an open mind one....:-)
As a "GNU/Linux vs. any other OS" (I know it wasn't the article's point, but I really like hard direct attacks, is like instinc to me) I always though that GNU/Linux could have an umbeatable advantage as for the total number of kernel programmers compared to any other OS. To put it on an example: - Back in 1991 Linux had only 1 kernel developper and 1 user (Linus Torvalds himself). - In 1995 Linux had 100 kernel developers and 1000 users (Ok, those are numbers invented by me). - In 2000 Linux had 1000 kernel developers and 100000 users (once more, numbers invented by me). - Nowadays Linux have 10000 kernel developers and 2000000 users (last time, I promise, numbers invented by me).
The idea, is to try to make a geometrical prediction of when in time Linux will have more kernel developers than the biggest comercial OS has. After that point in time, the comunity can claim to have an unbeatable advantage, since, not only new technologies will be created first on GNU/Linux, but after any other creative comercial OS invent a new technology, it will take a really short period of time to be implemented in Linux.
From that time on, Linux should have the majority of the OS market, leaving niche space to any other OS (something like QNX nowadays).
I welcome any response to this post. Mainly if you think I'm insane, or even better, if you like my idea and have the correct number of kernel developers and users for all the years I listed, so I can do a Taylor aproximation and post a possible time of Linux supremacy, Pinky and Brain style;-)
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Actually the reason why VMware will use a slower approach is becouse of Xen.
If there's any condition were HW virtualization is slower than SW virtualization, you need to use it or lose to Xen Source.
Don't get me wrong, I work with VMware in Argentina and the guys that sells VMware here are really great to work with. I love the technology and the easy it is to manage it. But certeanly Xen+HW virtualization changes everything....
The worst thing that VMware has is the the EULA prohibits publishing benchmarks... so is really easy to assume that you will go with the slower approach only to take Xen out...
The simplest way to solve this is to get any valid SAP SD 2-tier benchmark ( www.sap.com/benchmark ) on a non-HW virtualization capable system (ie. Opteron 880) and run the same benchmark on two different VM using VMware, showing that the SAPs combined of the two partitions equals the number achieved without partitioning. Obviously you will need to use exactly the same HW, guest OS, database and ERP release, achieveng the same dialog-steps response time...
If you can do it with this benchmark, you will be much better on Corporate Credibility.
This is simple. It has been mathematically proved that the best single investment is the market portfolio (please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theo ry )
What this means is that if you have some money and you can only perform one initial buy and then you have to live with your choice, the best thing to buy will be the more diversified found with the lower comission. Personally I like ETINX (disclaimer, I'm not afiliated in any way with Etrade)...
Nevertheless the best start is for you to read the documents at http://www.fool.com/school.htm?ref=G02A06
What I like about this, is that as RMS once said that exchanging freedom for convineance is a big mistake (regarding the BitKeeper affair), the same thing can be said about GPL.
This Guy Traded freedom (he used a GPLed code) for convineance (the GPL code he used was the easiest route).
Now he have a simple solution. Go with OpenSolaris and its CDDL license won't force you to do things you don't want to do (what is happenning know to this poor guy).
GPL is contraire to freedom, its forces you to post source code, there's not option about this...
As RMS stated about Bitkeeper, if you trade fredom for conviniance, sooner or later you will loose. GPL takes your freedom away (forces you to do things you might not want to do), CDDL gives it back to you.
In fact Sun had a e-Gast Station concept that used JAVA enabled microcontrollers for the dispensers... just Google for JAVA microcontroller and you will find plenty of references.
Acording to www.gnu.org:
;-)
"The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX like operating system which is free software: the GNU system"
GNU/Linux is only the OS part of the system, you still need the hardware part.
Nowadays, thanks to OpenSolaris + OpenSPARC + GNU we have a mainstream 100% Open Source system (Oerating System + software + hardware).
Thanks Richard, but your service is not longer required
-- http://maitas.blogspot.com/ --
Acording to www.gnu.org:
;-)
"The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX like operating system which is free software: the GNU system"
Of course we have GNU/Linux, but that's only the OS part of the system, you still need the hardware part.
Nowadays, thanks to OpenSolaris + OpenSPARC + GNU we have a mainstream 100% Open Source system (Oerating System + software + hardware).
Thanks Richard, but your service is not longer required
-- http://maitas.blogspot.com/ --
Friends from HDS, NEC and Fujitsu. If you want to write binary drivers for an Open Source OS go and write for Open Solaris...
But there's no relation whatesoever to those strange all nigth on lighths...
Does anyone knows what software they are using for streaming? What hardware and OS?
- An easy way to force child to read is to only install Lynx as web-browaser.
- The school only test for verbal linguistic skills. Lets start by measuring every single kind of intelligence and development of the child. Any kind of intelligence can help the lack of other.
If you don't need any fancy feature, you will be better of with a cheap digital camera that have no moving parts on it.
The Olympus Stylus Verve looks grate. It's water resistant, cheat, very nice overall. It's movie mode have a 320x200 pixels resolution (half a mini-DV camera) and can store 21 minutes of movies in a 512MB card...
If you need better resolution camera, you can get the Sony Cyber-shot® DSC-S40 that has a 640x480 movie mode with 30fps, but it's not water resistant...
Any digital camera will last far longer than a camera that have moving parts...
AFAIK Shillin my resume is the same as OpenSolaris without any binary part.
TrueSync is great. I use IntelliSync for YAHOO and keep my calendar and ToDo on my Yahoo acount syncronized with my Palm, OutLook and CellPhone easely...
If I'm away from any of my devices, I only need a browswer with Yahoo access (all public libraries do) to read my Calendar.
Disclaimer: I work for Sun.
I really think both OSes are great. Perhaps since I know a lot more about Solaris than Linux (although I use both) I like the first the most.
The point here is which have the clearest growth path for the foresible future.
I really thinks that now that the bitkeeper issue will be solved shortly, Linux have a clearer roadmap.
Although Sun is a great company (with more than 5 billion in cash), Solaris is closely attach to Sun's future, but Linux have no personal attachment at all (I really belive that even if Linus wants stop working on it, Linux will sirve and will keep improving).
I also believe that the OpenSolaris iniciative is a great way to solve this problem, but it has yet to prove itself, although adding Roy Fielding (who helped write the original Apache software) looks like a great idea.
In either case, what the Bitkeeper issue showed was that, as Benjamin Franklin said "Anyone who would trade freedom for safety deserves neither." Or put in another way, is better to use a bad OpenSoruce product than a great Propietary one.
I also thinks that Sun's have been wrongly attack for its CDDL license. It's really as close as you can get to the Mozilla license, and noone is attacking them for that. Both licenses allow the use of the software without beeing force to post improvements (what seems to be the "evil" part of Sun's CDDL). But even that wont create any problem for a user that's currently running a software release under CDDL (not possible Bitkeeper alike abuse). The only "problem" is that anyone is able to improve the software that was release under CDDL and re-release it under the license they want (exactly the same happens with MySQL and noone is complaining....).
For Linux MultiPathing you have an axcelent software from Sun calles "Traffice Manager"... is the same that Solaris uses...
In fact, who solve the electricity storage problem will get rich inmediately. Nowdays, there's no good alternative, as you can see at http://www.electricitystorage.org/
For transportation I ise a byke-train combo for long distances. I save energy (after boats, trains are the cheapest transports) and get fit at once!
The reviewer miss in his zones explanation the part about Resource Manager. This is simply a zSeries like WorkLoad Manager tool. It allows to assign processing power per process and per zone, and also physical and virtual memory per user. Simply put, if you have 3 process running, you can assign each process 1/3rd of the processing power of the system, 1/3rd of the physical memory to each process (so no process force a page-out for all the others), and the same amount of virtual memory as the hole system memory (as long as the working set for each process fits in) to avoid memory leak problems.
Other point is that the installer have a bug and although it asks if you want the 1st CD to auto pop-up, it wont work, you need to take it out before it starts the installation all over again. Some bouilds have a message reporting this error (instead of fixing it...).
Binary compatibility is withit the ABI for the same platform (obviously, you can't move a SPARC binary to an Opteron box). The good part is that source files will written using the standar ABI will recompily straight.
The main-point with any other OS than Linux is that rigth-now companies seems more likely to die than the hole Linux movement (or however you want to call it).
Well.. the "opteron provides nearly the performance of their sparc at a cheaper price" part is not like that. In fact Opteron is way Faster than SPARC... Just check http://www50.sap.com/benchmark/sd2tier.asp and look for SPARC and Opteron results... You got 810 SAPs per 1.2GHz US-IV and a ProLiant DL385 got 1475 SAPs per Opteron 252...
The reason every single enterprise exists is for profit. There are only three enterprises that doesn't have profit as its main reason of existance. Those are call "heroic" enterprises. Mainly, army, religion (church), and health (although in USA this last one is a false statement, since there exists many hospitals that doesn't pay taxes but have serveral millions of dollars in the bank, when they should only have as litlle as necesary to subsist).
For Sun Systems, I use an old m100 palm with telnet, you only need to add diferent serial adaptors for the 9-pin that the Palm has.
Actually, as a corolary, "he who buys what he doesn't need, is stealing himself".
Seriously, when I bought my Apple Newton MessagePad (first serie, no number) back in '93, I did bougth what I didn't need... I'm planning on selling it on Ebay though... Ebay is great to get rid of bad bougths... There's always a Slashdot reader target... jeje
There's already a U$S:100 computer with display!! http://www.palmone.com/us/products/handhelds/zire2 1/
As far as I remember, the Grumman F-14 airplane has a pneumatic computer as a backup just in case it needs to use its nuclear-warehead air-air Phoenix misilles, since the electromagnetic pulse would fry all its electronic fly-by-wire systems...
Ok, I'm a Sun employee... but an open mind one....
As a "GNU/Linux vs. any other OS" (I know it wasn't the article's point, but I really like hard direct attacks, is like instinc to me) I always though that GNU/Linux could have an umbeatable advantage as for the total number of kernel programmers compared to any other OS. To put it on an example:
- Back in 1991 Linux had only 1 kernel developper and 1 user (Linus Torvalds himself).
- In 1995 Linux had 100 kernel developers and 1000 users (Ok, those are numbers invented by me).
- In 2000 Linux had 1000 kernel developers and 100000 users (once more, numbers invented by me).
- Nowadays Linux have 10000 kernel developers and 2000000 users (last time, I promise, numbers invented by me).
The idea, is to try to make a geometrical prediction of when in time Linux will have more kernel developers than the biggest comercial OS has. After that point in time, the comunity can claim to have an unbeatable advantage, since, not only new technologies will be created first on GNU/Linux, but after any other creative comercial OS invent a new technology, it will take a really short period of time to be implemented in Linux.
From that time on, Linux should have the majority of the OS market, leaving niche space to any other OS (something like QNX nowadays).
I welcome any response to this post. Mainly if you think I'm insane, or even better, if you like my idea and have the correct number of kernel developers and users for all the years I listed, so I can do a Taylor aproximation and post a possible time of Linux supremacy, Pinky and Brain style
Regards!