Links for 6 Jan 2010 - 26 Jan 2010

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 taken long enough, but finally the EU have approved the deal. I think things will start to move very quickly now.
• Pitfalls of Benchmarking Flash with dd(1M) : Lisa Noordergraaf - A great simple illustration of why dd(1M) really isn't a good tool for benchmarking disk performance.
• Spitting ZFS Mirrors - Woohoo!! Finally a highly sought after feature - zfs splitting - has made it into ZFS as of snv_131. Mark provides a bit more insight into this forth coming functionality.