Posts tagged with: ibm

I'm really starting to look forward to Sun being taken over by Oracle, especially if their current advertising battle is an indication of things to come. In the on-going battle between Oracle and IBM, comes the latest TPC-C benchmark results which pit a 9 rack Sun/Oracle T5440/F5100 configuration (TPC-C results) against IBM's monster 76 rack POWER 595 (TPC-C results). Historically Sun has ignored the TPC-C benchmark as it's not really a good indicator of real world use, however IBM hasn't, and they continue to use it. Not for much longer though. Oracle has taken them to task and given them a jolly good hiding. Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 2 Sep 2009 - 24 Sep 2009: IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office - Welcome to the party IBM. Sun did this years ago. 99% of people don't use half the functionality in MS Office anyway. Linus calls Linux 'bloated and huge' - ... and it's suffered on average a 2% decrease in performance per release over the last 10 releases making a cumulative drop of 12%. How are the Linux advocates in the corporate world substantiating this drop in performance? Solaris customers certainly wouldn't accept it. Ellison: Sunacle is an IBM killer - `Ellison was adamant:... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 15 Mar 2009 - 24 Mar 2009: Internet Archive to unveil massive Wayback Machine data center - Oooo, and it#039;s in a Sun Modular Datacentre (aka Project Blackbox) running Solaris 10 and ZFS. The 'IBM buys Sun' story | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com - Interesting point of view on what#039;s happening with these rumours. The last paragraph in this article could be the deal breaker though. Heat Map Analytics - Brendan Gregg and Bryan Cantril have far too much free time. The end of this article has a interesting bit about writing a program that generates... Continue reading ►

I was just checking the Sun share price this morning and nearly had a heart-attack. I noticed the share price had jumped significantly in pre-market trading: I glanced across to the sidebar in Google finance and it's awash with stories about IBM being in talks to buy Sun Microsystems. They all reference the same Wall Street Journal article - IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add to Web Heft. To say I'm surprised is an understatement of note. Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008: 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to... ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently. Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on OS X from one of the ZFS developers at Apple. 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Platforms - And the award for the Most Innovative Server OS goes to... well, Solaris 10 of course. Who else? shimmer - A great alternative to port knocking,... Continue reading ►

Today... IBM and Sun announced that IBM will distribute the Solaris operating system (OS) and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and Blade Center servers. Now that's got to be an indication of how good Solaris 10 is, and how much demand it's getting now. This agreement has just effectively opened up Sun's customer base to the entire IBM customer base. Brilliant!! Now if only Sun had kept up the development on the PowerPC support in Solaris. IBM may have (in my wildest dreams) extended this agreement to their PowerPC systems too. Now that would have been cool.

Links of interest for 29 May 2007 - 7 July 2007: Sun eyes supercomputing glory - If Sun can get this out before IBM's BlueGene/P, we may be in for a good supercomputer battle. GNU Free Software License Gets Upgrade to Meet Modern Demands - Germany adopts "anti-hacker" law; critics say it breeds insecurity - Hmmm, I know some security experts who won't be allowed to do their work in Germany now. Grade Your Website: 31 Free Online Tests - Some really useful tools here. Imitation (from IBM) is the sincerest form of flattery - A great summary of ... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 17 May 2007 - 25 May 2007: ZFS Auto Completion for Bash - Now you can get ZFS auto completion for Bash with this script. Promising antispam technique gets nod - Great idea, but it's biggest caveat is the fact it requires both sending and receiving mail servers to have this configured and enabled. Many companies won't be upgrading as soon as this becomes official. A Mighty Number Falls - Whilst 1024-bit RSA hasn't actually been defeated, it does give us an indication as to it's impending demise. IBM AIX 6: Previewing AIX 6 and open... Continue reading ►

I was a little surprised and saddened to read that DARPA has decided to pump US$250m into Cray and US$244m in IBM for them to work on DARPA's next high performance computing initiative - their "Petascale" program. There was a lot of bidding and vying for the investment and it came down to 3 final contenders - IBM, Cray and Sun. Now being a Sunny, you can understand my disappointment - had Sun got some of this cash, I may have got a pay rise. That aside, I'm surprised DARPA made their decision based on the idea's pitched. Continue reading ►

It's the 25th birthday of the IBM Compatible PC today. The IBM 5150 was announced today in 1981 with a whopping 16k of memory. What a beasty.