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Links for 12 Dec 2008 - 24 Dec 2008

Links of interest for 12 Dec 2008 - 24 Dec 2008:

  • Sun boosts OpenSolaris on Atom - Oooo. When this becomes a reality without any hoop jumping, I may just have to get myself a small Atom based netbook.
  • It's recession time and Sun has the best recession kool aid. - Who needs Oracle and BEA when you can have MySQL and Glassfish, and you can even use Ruby on Rails. I agree with the final comment in the article - Sun just isn#039;t selling the whole idea very well. I hope someone sees this post and takes it#039;s content to heart.
  • OpenSolaris 2008.11: Its Time Is Coming - Good review. I like the football analogy at the beginning which finished off quite appropriately with quot;Before parting, you ask him if he#039;ll play every week and he says he can#039;t because he#039;s moving to Australia on Monday. And you are left wishing you had discovered him much sooner.quot;
  • Sun and Micron extend flash life - This is really crucial in what I think is going to be the quot;big thingquot; on the storage front in 2009. One thing to remember, the figures mentioned are at a cell level, not for the entire SSD - people always forget this in the spinning disk vs flash/SSD debate.
  • StorageMojo » Many-cores hit the memory wall - Good read here about the problems encountered with the ever expanding number of cores on a CPU. This is exactly the reason the UltraSPARC T1/2 processors have been designed the way they have. The CPU is multithreaded so whilest we wait for memory for one thread, the others can carry on. See http://www.sun.com/products/microelectronics/pdfs/Sun-Microelectronics-WindRiver_DS.pdf for more details.
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