The Sun/Oracle merger in the news - revisited
There were some interesting news in the usual news outlets about the announcement of the agreement about the merger. I want to post a few of them in my blog...
1300 subscribers
Wow. A large leap forward. 1300 subscribers. This is especially interesting as my subscriber count decreased to 1100 after i had to migrate from feedburner.com to feedburner.google.com. The counting mechanism...
Internas im Zug
Ich bin der Lufthansa so unendlich dankbar, das man in den Fliegern nicht telephonieren darf. In einer selten Übereinstimmung von Vorurteil und Realität hat eine stark überschminkte Dame im rosafarbenen...
The Oracle/Sun deal in the news
The eweek writes in WEEK Labs on Sun-Oracle: More Synergy Than Overlap in Product Lines: After IBM's failed bid for Sun Microsystems, Oracle is swooping in to pick up Sun....
Some personal thoughts about the Oracle/Sun deal
My retired father reads business news quite often a day and as his son happens to work at Sun, he reads everything about Sun. So everytime i visit my parents...
When Oracle gets DTrace probes ...
… i´m fine with the the merger. Larry talked about a deep integration. When Oracle software gets Dtrace-Probes all over the code, i tend to think like Glenn: I´m fine...
Larry about Solaris
Larry said in the conference call regarding the acquisition(as reported by the Wall Street Journal): In our opinion, Sun Solaris is by far the best Unix operating system in the...
Interesting rumour at the Financial Times
Interesting rumours about the circumstances of the Sun/IBM deaul at the Financial Times - Oracle in $7.4bn swoop on Sun: The deal follows a last-minute intervention by Oracle after IBM...
Oracle´s presentation about the Sun acquisition
Before speculating to much about the deal i suggest a short view in the presentation “Oracle Buys Sun” provided by Oracle. Some key sentences from my perspective: Expected to deliver...
Ashlee Vance about the Sun/IBM deal
Ashlee Vance (Do you know, what you did to the Register with your resignation there?) writes in the New York Times: I.B.M., which competes against Oracle in the software market,...
Oracle expects really positive effects
Safra Catz of Oracle is cited at Sun.com with the following words: "We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle's earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP...
Looks like i´m working for Oracle soon ....
Sun will be acquired by Oracle - Oracle to Buy Sun: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which...
links for 2009-04-20
Die dreizehn Lügen der Zensursula : netzpolitik.org (tags: Zensur internet politik censorship politics blog list)
ZFS quota in Opensolaris Build 114
ZFS group and user quotas were put-back to the codebase for the Opensolaris Build 114 yesterday as a result of PSARC 2009/204. At last … this was one of the...
c0t0d0s0.org at the Linuxtag 2009 in Berlin
I´ve just looked at the Linuxtag website and my tutorial made it to it. So i´m glad to announce at my website: At the Linuxtag 2009 in Berlin i will...
Trip to California - Hotels
It looks like, there are some people who wants to do something similar in a vacation and asked for the hotels i´ve used at my trip. Before i answer the...
Recommended listening: Röyksopp - Junior
Okay … i already see questions in your mind … what did Mr. Moellenkamp smoked to recommended this music. A few days ago a metalized version of Careless whisper and...
There is hope!
A management consultant convinced your CEO that Linux is a good idea, but the migration was problematic, most features didn´t held what they were promising and now you have just...
Raisins, Storage, Solaris and the X4275
Some new systems were announced a few days ago. All are Nehalem based. And all of them have some special features seperating them from the competition. But this isn´t the...
The nature of security bugs
Hits the nail on its head: Security fixes are different from every other kind of fix. As every good troubleshooter knows, when problems occur something almost invariably has changed. For...