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Oracle OpenWorld: Hardware, Fusion, big data talk, SaaS on tap
The theme of Oracle's OpenWorld is engineered innovation, which roughly translates into a heavy dose of Exadata talk.
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Oracle OpenWorld: Hardware, Fusion, big data talk, SaaS on tap
The theme of Oracle's OpenWorld is engineered innovation, which roughly translates into a heavy dose of Exadata talk.
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Oracle's Q1 strong, but hardware sales lag; New SPARC chip on tap
Oracle's software revenue---applications, middleware and databases---was solid, but hardware sales lagged.
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Oracle launches SPARC-based Exalogic, updates Solaris
Oracle today delivered on its commitment to the SPARC platform, announcing a SPARC Solaris-based model of its Exalogic Elastic cloud system, the so-called cloud-in-the-box system that...
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Buying for tomorrow: Cryptography and SPARC/CMT
When in doubt, bet on the future coming sooner rather than later - because it's better to be ahead of the eight ball, than under it.
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A guy called Joe
The world's best advice: "if it doesn't work, stop doing it", applies to mergers as much as to government - and ignoring it was probably Sun's single biggest mistake.
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Rocky dreams
Everyone knows that Sun's ultraSPARC RT is dead. Right? Wrong - the strategic reason for not releasing it disappeared with the Oracle deal.
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Save money: buy from the enemy
People keep joyfully telling me that real men buy wintel or lintel, never SPARC/Solaris - and the numbers on this are compelling: if the rate of increase in x86 price/performance falls by only 18%...
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Intel chief: Second quarter orders better than expected; Eyes Sun Sparc customers
Intel CEO Paul Otellini said Tuesday that second quarter chip orders are "a little better than we expected," questioned the fate of Sun's Sparc chip and handicapped the potential growth markets...
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Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem
With Sun under threat of shutdown by IBM, people who had expected to buy SPARC gear from their 2009/2010 budgets should be looking at Intel's Nehalem servers as alternatives - but, because so...
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The deed is done: now are you better off?
As a general thing, upgrades based on support cost savings make financial sense - but whether they leave you better off generally depends on other factors.
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Some general considerations for small systems change
When Red Hat tells you that buying a free Linux license from them makes sense every time you have an old SPARC box up for support renewal, they're not exactly being honest with you.
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Coolthreads vs hyperthreading
Laudon's description of the differences between Sun's SMP capable coolthreads approach to multi-threading and Intel's hyperthreading is as concise, lucid, and simple as anything I could find - so...
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Selling Unix in 2009 - much easier than in 2008?
Will selling Unix be easier in 2009 than it was in 2008? The opportunities are there - depressions provide the financial presures that move people to see better, cheaper, and faster solutions as...
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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...
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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...
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Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86
Compare the cost of "Linux" -meaning gnu/linux on x86 - to the cost of Unix -meaning Solaris on ultraSPARC- and you get a surprise: "Unix" is cheaper provided you need enough capacity to get to...
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Solaris vs AIX: The threatscape
A Novell director, if that company turns out to hold the rights and obligations involved, cannot meet his responsibilities to shareholders other than IBM by leaving a potential billion or two in...
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Solaris/SPARC vs AIX/Power
Or, if you prefer to see the glass as half empty: the chances that the lack of a critical application forces you into a risky and expensive development or porting project are at least ten times...
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The T2 and media reaction
Most of the tech press reports about the T2 announcement strayed from the facts announced in the press releases, and when they did, they got most of it wrong.
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