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Solaris Family Reunion: TOMORROW!

Posted on October 3, 2011

Sorry for the late notice, but all you folks out here in the Bay Area for OracleWorld won't want to miss out on a very exciting event tomorrow night: What? Solaris Family Reuinion Where? Joyent HQ, 345 California St, 20th Floor When? Tuesday Oct 4th, 6PM till 10PM (and maybe a pub after that!) Why? Beer! Food! Community! Register here: http://smartos-estw.eventbrite.com We've all gone off in different directions, but this will be ...

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Scott Speaks

Posted on December 8, 2010

Gavin Clarke of El Reg has written a really nice piece based on an interview with Scott: McNealy to Ellison: How to duck death by open source: Ex-Sun boss talks code, community, and underpants Unlike so many other articles, this one is fair, balanced, and very respectful of Sun and its legacy. My favorite quote has to be this, referring to the tactics of Microsoft, Intel, and the like: "I feel good as a company we didn't engage in that. I ...

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John Fowler delvers an Oracle Systems Strategy Update webcast. Better late than never. There weren't any surprises. The key take-aways I think are: Roadmap for SPARC and Solaris out to 2015. SPARC will deliver "2x plus performance improvement every 2 years" Ultimate devotion to SPARC platform. 2 SPARC server lines: T-Series for lots of threads, M-Series for lots of sockets. "Niagara"/"UltraSPARC" branding isn't present at ...

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VDbench (so named for its creator, Henk Vandenbergh of Sun Microsystems, formerly StorageTek) is a truly incredible enterprise grade storage benchmark that is free and open source. In celebration of vdbench 5.02's release I thought it time we discuss it. One of the things I love about VDbench is that its implemented in Java. Its extremely portable (Windows, Solaris, Linux, AIX, OS/X and HP/UX) and includes a both GUI and CLI interfaces. ...

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Jonathan Says Goodbye via Twitter Haiku

Posted on February 4, 2010

The message was simple: Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more Please post your thoughts on Jonathan's leaving. Its a mixed emotion... on one hand he set some great goals and put a fire under things. A lot of us believed in him. And yet, he failed to execute and ultimately was responsible for Sun's demise. Could someone else have ...

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On Jan 27th Sun, as an independent company, died and Oracle's reign begins. No time was wasted. As you no doubt have noticed by now, sun.com redirects to Oracle.com, which is in keeping with its acquisition history... but even so it happened quicker than I expected. No time being wasted. Oracle hosted a 5 hour (yes, 5) event in Redwood City (Oracle HQ) to lay out its strategy for Sun. Charles Phillips: Welcome and Oracle + Sun: ...

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Larry Gets What Larry Wants: Sun Now Oracle

Posted on January 21, 2010

Its all over folks. Oracle buys Sun, EU approved. There will be a Oracle + Sun Strategy Update Webcast on Wed the 27th, so make sure to tune in for that. The invite was sent out yesterday, so looks like Oracle got early notice.

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Oracle/Sun Deal Gets More Time

Posted on November 25, 2009

Just an update on the acquisition front... Oracle gets more time to respond to EC antitrust concerns. "The deadline for a final ruling has been put back to Jan. 27 from Jan. 19, which amounts to six additional working days for Oracle to win over the skeptical regulator." It's become crystal clear, for those not following the issue, that this is really all about MySQL. As I and others have sited repeatedly, the de facto standard MySQL ...

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SPARCstation IPC Forever?

Posted on October 2, 2009

When you die, turns out there are a lot of options. See, if you go the traditional route your headed for the ground, but if you opt for cremation all sorts of options open up... such as being put into a SPARCstation IPC... I know what your thinking... but according to some follow up by CNet this isn't a joke, its the real deal. And I kind of believe it, I personally want to be buried with a Sun E4500... just not inside it. So to ...

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Ed Zander Interviews Larry Ellison at the Churchill Club on 9.21.09. I'm not seeing many people posting about this so I'm putting it out there. There are lots of rumors out there but this is the best info from the man himself. If you haven't heard of the prestigious Churchill Club, it's "Silicon Valley's premier business and technology forum." This is where the big wigs hobnob (and if you have some cash, should too). This is must ...

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