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- The need for a mixed load benchmark
- The right way to do virtualization is almost always just to avoid it - and let the Unix scheduler handle resource allocations among multiple applications and users as service demands change. Unfortunately people who want to do this face an unexpected problem: no good way to size the hardware short...
- Tags: Paul Murphy, Resource Allocation, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, UNIX, Operating Systems, Hardware, Storage, Software, Operating System, Data-processing, Sun Solaris, Servers
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Sun posts $1.67 billion loss on write-off
- updated: Sun Microsystems reported a loss for the first quarter of its fiscal 2009 year of $1.67 billion, or $2.24 per share, on revenue for $2.99 billion, down from $3.22 billion for the first quarter of 2008 statement. The loss was largely attributed to the write off of a $1.44...
- Tags: Writeoff, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Performance Management, Sun Solaris, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Novell: Free SLES while the fire is hot
- My "Free Enterprise OSes" post got a lot of attention and a lot of positive feedback, particularly from those who are now actually considering using some of these in order to reduce license costs. Still, while I am glad people are now considering...
- Tags: Novell Inc., openSUSE, Sun Solaris, Servers, Operating Systems, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failure
- What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failureDificult to grabsun startegy regarding opensolaris/solaris x86 is very difficult to grad, and I think that is partly due to sun having changed their strategy over time.First, i think the program was started when they didn't know the outcome of niagara.the risc...
- Tags: Processors, Operating systems, UNIX, second-one, Intel x86, Sun Solaris
- Discussion threads 2008-10-15
- What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failure
- I think the short answer to "what happened to growth in the OpenSolaris community" is Ian Murdock; but the longer answer is that growth continues but enthusiasm lags and the commercial applications market has become more a defensive one than a leading edge one. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Growth, Paul Murphy, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel X86, Sun Sparc, Systems Story, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)
- In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession, as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...
- Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Anatomy of an attack: <EM>The New York Times</EM> on Solaris
- Anatomy of an attack: The New York Times on Solarishmm>> Sun’s Boyle acknowledges that Sun employees participate in OpenSolaris development, but says they do so along with individual and corporate contributors such as Intel. Community registrations in the OpenSolaris community exceed 160,000, far in excess of Sun’s total employee account...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, Murphy, Sun Microsystems Inc., Murph, Sun Solaris, New York Times Co., Microsoft Windows NT, Sun Products
- Discussion threads 2008-10-11
- Anatomy of an attack: The New York Times on Solaris
- Paul Krill's recent New York Times hit piece against Solaris demonstrates, I think, a new low in manipulative agenda journalism as it affects IT. Brilliantly done, really, but pointlessly destructive -much more, I think, like vandalism than reporting. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., New York Times Co., Attack, Sesame, Noah, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- How good is Microsoft support?
- So how good is Microsoft support? In my own experience, support calls to Microsoft have generally led to one of two answers: it can't be done, or, it can be done, but we have to buy some other license, or licenses first - and when we do buy those, we're...
- Tags: Support, Microsoft Corp., Interactive Voice Response (IVR), UNIX, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Sun Solaris, Software, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- BusinessWeek site hacked, serving drive-by exploits
- BusinessWeek site hacked, serving drive-by exploitsSo tell us...what software stack is businessweek.com using?A cheap solution that doesn't work is neitherSay What?Nice work with the Google SafeBrowsing APII should have included that information in the blog post I made about this earlier today on the Sophos website: http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/09/15/hackers-infect-businessweek-websiteI have, however,...
- Tags: UNIX, Corporate communications, Web site development, Operating systems, BusinessWeek, Sun Solaris
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- Commercial development strategies
- For large scale, commercial, software development the right recipe starts with a Unix development and testing environment - even if you plan to sell mainly on Windows. The reason for that is simple: business success is more about how you build your sales than it is about how you build...
- Tags: Strategy, Environment, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Sun Solaris, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinking
- Google's recent release of their "Chrome" browser beta was, I think, driven by their perception that the disruption IE8 is about to create in the marketplace spells opportunity for Google. It's nice to see competition at work, but their entire strategy is, I think, reactive rather than proactive and not...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Microsoft Windows Vista, IE8, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Channel Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source
- Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open SourcePerhaps if you read what you wroteYou say regarding Wintel:"you’ll find 2o FTEs an extremely conservative minimum just to keep the lights on."and then regarding Solaris:"you’re going to be paying about ten people, four of whom you don’t actually need every day"Your statement about doubling...
- Tags: Servers, Operating systems, UNIX, environment, Microsoft Corp., development environment, server, Sun Solaris, Solaris Servers, Wintel, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- The Unix sysadmin salary premium
- A review of job openings at major American employers shows that there is no "Unix salary premium" but there is a 15% or so skills premium reflecting the typical Unix sysadmin's ability to fill other roles - like those of the DBA or Windows administrator - without, as it were,...
- Tags: System Administrator, Wintel, Data-processing, Salary, Payscale, Outliers, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Kernel Solaris Data Recovery Software (exe)
- Kernel Solaris recovers data from deleted, formatted, damaged, or corrupted partitions where unix based Sun Solaris operating system is installed on the hard disk. Kernel Recovery for Solaris Intel is advanced data recovery utility recovers data from corrupted Solaris volumes where UFS based file systems are installed. Kernel Solaris supports...
- Tags: Data Recovery, Kernel, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-07-24
- How to lose customers by not even trying
- "The easiest way to lose a customer? make it clear you don't care about that customer." Tired old wisdom, right? Sure, but checkout how this applies to webstores - and understand the message poorly thought out webstores send customers. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Avis Rent A Car System Inc., Hertz Corp., Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Operating Systems, UNIX, Web Browsers, Servers, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Transitive's magic - Solaris/SPARC Apps and Hyper-V
- In the past, I posted about one of the important requirements of the next generation datacenter NGDC, the ability to consolidate diverse applications on a unified hardware platform. Both IBM (see What would a next generation datacenter look like?) and HP see HP and the next generation data center and...
- Tags: Application, Sun Sparc, Transitive QuickTransit, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Servers, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- ESXX (exe)
- ESXX, pronounced Essex, is a Web application server that executes Web applications written in JavaScript (a.k.a. ECMAscript) on the server-side. It's written in Java and has no external dependencies except for J2SE 6.0. Everything else that's required is packaged in one single, executable JAR file, ready to be tested in...
- Tags: Web Application, Martin Blom, Apple Mac OS X, Cloud Computing, Sun Solaris, Java, Apple Mac OS, Programming Languages, Linux, Operating Systems, Application Servers, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-11
- IT success stories
- Linkedin's web infrastructure seems to offer a model for mid range sites: it's fast, it's clean - and development seems to have been based on combining the best of open source products with minimal customization. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Customer Service, Information Technology, Success Story, Sun Solaris, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Open Source, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Firefox and the horrors of the Solaris install process
- Firefox and the horrors of the Solaris install processnot that i had anything interesting to sayI am used to having my comments *deleted*. ;)I'm sure incompetent top management...was to blame. Couldn't be the IT personnel.As was Fedora'syum -y updateRE: disappearing commentsAs many of you will have noticed comments sometimes...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, UNIX, Most linux distro, WinBlows, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, horror, Sun Solaris, WINDOWS USERS, windoze user
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
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