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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)
The New York Timessuggeststhat Sun's Solaris operating system may be falling out of favor."Sun officials believe the 16-year-old Solaris platform remains a pivotal, innovative platform. But at the Linux Foundation, there is a no-conciliatory stance; the attitude there is to tell Solaris and Sun to move out of the way. "The future is Linux and Microsoft Windows," says foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. "It is not Unix or Solaris."Solaris, he said, has almost no new deployments and is a legacy operating environment offered by a company with financial difficulties."
SCO rises from the dead (Computerworld)
Steven J. Vaughan-Nicholsreports that bankrupt SCO may have a buyer."I've never been a fan of horror-movie series where no matter what happens to the baddie, such as Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th movies, he's up and ready to kill again in the next sequel. So, you can imagine just how pleased I am to see that SCO, just when it looked like it was dead as a doornail, came up with a buyer at the 11th hour and 59th minute.According to reports on Groklaw, Gulf Capital Partners LLC, a group formed by Stephen Norris of Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners, a private-equity firm, has offered to buy SCO, just as the company faced the end of the bankruptcy road. If the deal is real and goes through, SCO's nearly dead Unix business will continue, and, oh the pain of it all, so will its zombie-like lawsuits against IBM, Novell, and other Linux companies."
Sun Updates Studio 12
Sun Tuesday released its Studio 12 Update 1 advanced compilers and tools for Solaris, OpenSolaris and Linux.An optimized environment for the latest multi-core x86 and Sparc-based systems, it’s supposed to simplify parallel development and heighten application performance.Geared to C, C++ and FORTRAN developers, it consists of parallelizing compilers, powerful debuggers, advanced thread and performance analysis tools and highly tuned libraries.read more
Novell: Free SLES while the fire is hot
My "Free Enterprise OSes" post got a lot of attention and a lot of positive feedback, particularly from those who are now actually considering using some of these in order to reduce license costs. Still, while I am glad people are now considering these OSes as real enterprise computing solutions, a nagging feeling remains along the lines of the Cookie Monster's famous platinum hit, "One of these things is not like the other. One of these things does not belong." And that thing is openSUSE, particularly when included in the list with CentOS/Scientific, Solaris and BSD. Look, I like openSUSE. A lot. I fought to get SuSE Linux Professional released into Open Source when the idea wasn't even a twinkle in Novell's ...
From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
This is the 16th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of appliance computing, includes numerous illustrations and note tables omitted here. Roots The two characteristics which most significantly drove the development of management methods and hardware in this field were: the interactive applications model; and, the fact that primary hours of work for the computer correspond to the hours of work for the people whose work it supports. Mini-computers as front end processors. Notice that the term "mini-computer" was used as early as 1953 to refer to machines used as pre-processors on ...
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