2007-04-10
Harmonize Java -- Open the Java Community
Well it looks like the ASF has finally "ran out of it patience":http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html with the Java Community Process and Sun's refusal to allow Apache to use the TCK (Test Certification Kit) to certify it's open JVM 'Harmony' with. This is after 7 months of trying to reach a conclusion privately to something in a signed contract! For me this ...
2006-10-17
Google's container is real... thank you sun.
"Robert Cringley's":http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html prediction of google creating a data centre in a shipping container has been fulfilled. not by google, but by sun. "Project Blackbox":http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/index.jsp was "announced":http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/a_logical_end_point today. I'm waiting for the day for a operations engineer to say 'we need to swap out ...
2006-05-27
finally
congrats to "Stefan Rubner":http://whocares.de/archive/001176.php who won the T2000 this month.
2006-05-25
Bye Bye Sunfire
Well.. the time has come.. my Try & Buy period is over.. and it is time to return the machine. It's going to be picked up today.
It's a shame that sun hasn't updated it's "winners page":http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/performance/winners.jsp I'm guessing they have got enough marketing exposure from "Colm":http://www.stdlib.net/%7Ecolmmacc/2006/03/27 ...
2006-05-12
Sunfire competition status
I've been checking the sun "winnners":http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/performance/winners.jsp about once a day to see if I have won (or who did) and I noticed a couple of changes. (they could have been there all the time, I'm not sure) * You can now enter with a T1000, which is a smaller 1U offering. Thankfully it looks like they will allocate ...