Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Sep 2009 19:41 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
There we are! It took them a while, but Oracle has finally said a few things about the future of Sun's SPARC and Solaris products. Oracle placed an ad in the European edition of The Wall Street Journal listing four plans the company has with SPARC and Solaris.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/25/13 0:45 UTC
"So in summary... Google has pulled the plug on support on a protocol they've helped popularize, after years of promising interoperability, for reasons that are dubious at best, and in a way that leaves people who don't jump to the new Hangouts app unable to talk to their contacts without any feedback that their IMs aren't getting through... And they've done that with no warning to anyone. I imagine there's a bunch of people out there wondering where some of their buddies have gone, or why their messages aren't getting responses, because this isn't documented anywhere." Google really messed this up. Such a dick move.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 23:59 UTC
The Tizen Greek Community has some screenshots of a very recent build of Tizen running on a Samsung GT-i8800. It looks wholly unremarkable.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 22:33 UTC
Joint statement to The Next Web from Microsoft and Google: "Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube's API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time." Good to know these children stopped acting like little pricks. Can we have full Google support in Windows 8 now, please?
Linked by Howard Fosdick on 05/24/13 21:41 UTC
Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, for $1.1 billion USD. Tumblr offers little revenue but lots of eyeballs if Yahoo can monetarize them. Now Yahoo is bidding for Hulu, the streaming video service. After years of ineffective responses while Google, Facebook, and others took large chunks of the online advertising market, Yahoo is fighting back. Can Yahoo reignite the momentum it had at the turn of the century? What do you think?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 14:44 UTC
"Sources have described iOS 7 as 'black, white, and flat all over'. This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements." I couldn't be happier.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 23:22 UTC
"Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:04 UTC
"Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said." Sucks to be Google today, apparently.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:01 UTC
"In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 17:52 UTC
"The wave of departures is a sign of internal struggle, but amidst all the bad news, there is a glimmer of hope. According to an anonymous HTC executive cited by WSJ, the crucial HTC One is selling 'pretty good so far'. The executive revealed that HTC sold about five million One units since launch, a performance that is deemed encouraging. However, sales have been limited by the persisting supply issues that still plague the production of the HTC One." Finally some good news for HTC. Five million units amidst supply constraints is very impressive.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 22:23 UTC
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.More News »
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It's one of the reasons, but not the only one and it's far bigger than that. A lot of organisations have ditched Solaris and SPARC over the years because of not only poor performance but a complete inability to get popular open source software running properly. Apparently, we're all supposed use some supported and expensive J2EE solution or recompile in Forte or whatever it's called now.
Only now has a response to that been created in OpenSolaris, and it is just under ten years too late and completely inadequate - with two or three years of vapourware press releases that Shamen was right about. Even now, the only definable reference implementation you can call OpenSolaris is Nevada.
It was to do with Python, threading and SMP systems as I recall, and basically the Python developers effectively said that they weren't interested in troubleshooting problems on a proprietary system on expensive hardware they couldn't run locally and didn't care about. I can't say I blame them. That was 2000. I believe I explained this umpteen times elsewhere.
It is coming up to about ten years ago now but as it was, we ran a comparison test system on x86, BSD and Linux (the perfectly sensible thing to do by the way, rather than fannying about as you suggest) to see if it was something else unrelated, and it ran without problems on both and was about three times as fast. Solaris on x86 wasn't an option at the time. Rather than troubleshoot a complex problem on a system Sun wouldn't help out with, guess what was decided? Why the hell should I or anyone else help Sun keep a customer, and why should you be arrogant enough to think that anyone will?
My performance data would be useless anyway because it's a drop in the ocean. What we want to know is if other people feel the same way. If you want some brutal performance data as to whether that is the case, look at Sun's last two quarters in particular:
http://blog.internetnews.com/apatrizio/2009/07/suns-q4-outlook-clou...
Where are your 'cherry picked' pieces to support your 'position' by the way, and what relevance do they have to the subject of the article?
When you see ZFS on a 128MB NAS box, where it should be an ideal fit, give me a call. I'll say no more because we're getting off-topic and having the issues at hand clouded by technical bullshit - as many Sun consultants do before they wave NDAs at you over a non-existant ECC memory problem. ;-)
Alas, we're miles off-topic now and we are going off down an avenue that has nothing whatsoever to do with the article. Like most Sun consultants they fight bottom-line thinking and problems with technical bullshit in an apparent masking attempt, even to the last. When the brown stuff hits the fan and the fan finally burns completely to a crisp I just don't know what you'll do.