Posts tagged with: sun-microsystems

Links of interest for 26 Jul 2010 - 6 Aug 2010: Using Oracle® Solaris 10 to Overcome Security Challenges - A great whitepaper that briefly explains and demonstrates a lot of the great security features Solaris has. This isn't a HOWTO, but more of a "look what we can do document". Well worth a read, even if you are a seasoned Solaris expert - you may just find a "I didn't know that" moment. Official Google Blog: Update on Google Wave - Good-bye Wave. I used you once to see what the fuss was all about and then promptly forgot... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 20 May 2010 - 30 Jun 2010: Sun’s Lost Intel-Chip Killer - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - So that's why Sun bought Montalvo. Somehow I don't think Sun would have been able to make the return on these had they come to market, but nice to know Sun's untold ambitions are coming to light. LCA: How to destroy your community [LWN.net] - Oh how true. Why the Digital Economy Act simply won't work - I think Cory Doctorow sums it up beautifully at the end... "Once you swallow a spider to catch a fly, you're on... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 22 Apr 2010 - 19 May 2010: Chrome Incognito Tracks Visited Sites - Lewis showed me this yesterday morning before posting this blog post. Guess incognito mode isn't as forgetful as you thought. Funny Photoshop Crash Reports - It's amazing what people write in these crash reports. Oracle on ZFS Whitepaper - Quite a useful whitepaper on running Oracle on ZFS. Warning, it's a PDF. Special Report: Can That Guy in Ironman 2 Whip IBM in Real Life? - Some great hard hitting quotes from Larry Ellison explaining exactly why Sun became such an easy takeover... Continue reading ►

First off, let me make it clear that I don't know much more about this topic than you do and will only be commenting on what is public knowledge pulling in my experiences as a support engineer. As you'll no doubt be hearing more of, Oracle seems to be taking an "All or nothing" approach to it's support offerings for Solaris and Sun hardware and with some pretty stringent penalties to try and keep customers going back to Oracle for support (details can be found in this PDF). My understanding is this isn't much different from they way they operate... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 27 Jan 2010 - 14 Feb 2010: eWEEK's Top 25 Technologies Of The Decade - Including Solaris 10 - "During the latter half of '00s, Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 sat at the leading edge of operating system technologies, with unique capabilities that include Containers virtualisation, Dtrace system instrumentation and the ZFS file system. Solaris 10 also helped put a stamp of inevitability on the x86-64 architecture and on the open-source-as-a-platform licensing strategy." UK Govt Say "No Evidence" IE is Less Secure - Or more precisely, "There is no evidence that moving from the latest fully patched... Continue reading ►

Well folks, as you've no doubt already read in the press (Oracle's office news), Sun Microsystems ceased to exist as a separate legal entity yesterday. Sun Microsystems is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle. And to mark the end of the era, I took a snapshot of the stock price and graph over Sun's history... Hmmm, I wonder when the Dot Com boom was :-) It's such a shame to see such an innovative company being swallowed up, but as Larry Ellison (I think, but I could be wrong) pointed out: Sun was brilliant at innovating, just not ... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 6 Jan 2010 - 26 Jan 2010: Internal Memo: Sun CEO Jon Schwartz to Staff - I didn't noticed this (I got the original), but these guys did: a little hidden message in Jon's memo. Note how it doesn't apply to the whole memo. Seems consistent with his efforts as a CEO: He started off well and then couldn't be bothered to finish what he started. EUROPA - Press Releases - Mergers: Commission clears Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems - And the official press release. Oracle wins unconditional EU approval for Sun buy - It's... Continue reading ►

Woohoo!!! Finally, the EU has given Oracle the thumbs-up for their purchase of Sun... Larry Ellison's Oracle won an all-clear from Europe's top antitrust official to proceed with its $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems after reaching a verbal agreement to protect a piece of software at the heart of a months-long dispute. The final approval is due mid-January. I think the EU have done the right thing by approving this deal, not only because I'm a Sun employee (speaking only for myself), but also for the sake of Sun's customers.

Links of interest for 5 Nov 2009 - 2 Dec 2009: J is for JVM: Why the ‘J’ in JRuby? | Engine Yard Blog - A good explanation on why the guys behind jRuby like the J, aka Java Virtual Machine, part of JRuby. Interesting performance figures too when compared to the standard Ruby, especially considering people complain Java is slow. Senators press EU to speed its Oracle-Sun probe - I very much doubt this is going to have any effect on the EU regulators. They'll just perform the usual Gallic shrug and ignore the letter. DTrace Cheatsheet : Brendan... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 17 Oct 2009 - 2 Nov 2009: ZFS Deduplication : Jeff Bonwick's Blog - Deduplication has just made its way into ZFS and Jeff provides a great explanation on what dedup it and why you need it, along with details on how to use it with ZFS. ZFS for MacOS X - One door closes, and thanks to Open Source, another opens. Apple cans ZFS project - It doesn't say much, but it speaks volumes. Monty, Stallman, MySQL, Oracle, and Sun: Open Letter Wars - Finally. Someone taking a subjective and clear headed view of the... Continue reading ►