Larry Ellisons recent statements about the Sun business
Larry Ellison said some interesting stuff about the Sun/Oracle merger in the last earnings call. I want put a full quote of his statement in my blog as i consider...
As expected ...
As expected i’ve got the bill for the last week: I’m lying in the bed with a bad cold, hurting sinuses. And as i’m a good employee i’ve got right...
Snow in Hamburg
Parasitic Hadoop
This isn’t one of my ideas that normally reaches me while waiting for my tea boiling idea. Interestingly i found an name for it while waiting for the tea bag...
Anyone who goes travelling has stories to tell
There is an old saying that you shouldn’t write the laudatio for a day at it’s beginning. I was happy about getting the flight this morning, but the problems started...
FTC sues Intel
Okay … after the lawsuit filed by the New York State Attorney, there is another legal problem for Intel: The FTC sued Intel for anticompetitive tactics. You will find the...
10 reasons
EWeek made a list of 10 reasons why they think, that Sun is still important. Well … the list is incomplete: ZFS is missing. I consider ZFS as one of...
Rumour: EC will say, it's okay
The New York Posts reports about an rumour that the EC will give it’s permission for the Oracle/Sun-Deal:“Oracle’s ‘Sun’day - European official OKs $7.4B merger”: According to a person with...
links for 2009-12-15
Direct NFS vs Kernel NFS bake-off with Oracle 11g and Solaris… and the winner is « Glenn Fawcett's Oracle blog (tags: nfs database solaris)
Monty tries to get public support for his cause
Disclaimer: This is my personal opion. Not the one of Sun, Oracle or someone else. Period. I wrote this article this morning, but just found time to put it online...
The reaction of the EC to the Oracle announcement
The EC issued an press release in reaction to the Oracle announcment about Mysql - “Mergers: Commission welcomes Oracle’s MySQL announcement”: The European Commission can confirm that it has engaged...
links for 2009-12-14
2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: rockets bulawa security)
Some good signs in regard of the Oracle/Sun deal
Oracle made an announcement about commitments to the EC to assure them about the intentions of Oracle. The commitments reach from “1. Continued Availability of Storage Engine APIs.”, “4. Commitment...
8. HHOSUG Meeting morgen
So … morgen findet das 8. HHOSUG Meeting statt. Es ist das letzte in diesem Jahr. Wie versprochen wird der Inhalt des OSUG Leader Meeting Beutels verlost. Ansonsten geht es...
Stressful week
This will be a week with a lot of stress: Today completing two presentation. Tomorrow morning meeting in Hannover, then a customer meeting near hamburg at 14 o’clock. 19 o’clock...
links for 2009-12-13
Magny Cours - AMD at Work (tags: AMD)
Cover versions - or: Recommended Listening: Collide - These eyes before
A good cover version reinterprets a piece of music and tries to put a different light to the the work of an different artist. My prefered example is the song...
links for 2009-12-12
Alan Burlison's Blog - Arduino on Opensolaris (tags: arduino embedded)
Google Wave invites
I’ve got more Google Wave invites. Someone interested?
Power consumption
In a comment i wasn’t able to deliver the power consumption for the HP system. However I finally found a Windows license and want to hand in this numbers now:...