Hi All,<br> Is there any serious report/article comparing a JEE application using the same hardware on Windows Server 2003/2008 vs Linux (any
September 2008
Monthly Archive
Tue 30 Sep 2008
Sun 28 Sep 2008
While the American economy dangles by a thread over a lake of molten lava, the American corporation keeps chugging along. Red Hat says it has no material exposure to the debacle and that September has been no different than the beginning of any other quarter. Its pipeline is reportedly strong. It earned .1 million, 10 cents a share, on revenues up 29% year-over-year, 5% sequentially to 4.4 million in its second quarter ended August 31, slightly better than expected.
Sun 28 Sep 2008
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Invites Governor Sarah Palin to Russia
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Her Dubai vacation was fully paid for by Dick Cheney’s Dubai-based oil company Halliburton, which also sells ,000 dollar-a piece-lobsters and Haagen Dazs ice cream to 250,000 troops in Iraq. The Iraq bill for taxpayers is currently running at billion per month. If Sarah Palin is elected, she needs to meet with Halliburton executives in Dubai more often as she will be taking over this defense duty from Dick Cheney.
Sun 28 Sep 2008
Cloud computing is changing the ground rules for startup companies both in their infrastructure choices and in the bar for technology development prior to funding. In a breakout session at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo, Lars Leckie - a Principal at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners - will walk through the venture capital perspective of the cloud computing market covering both consumer and enterprise usage. Leckie’s session will cover the tools for cloud computing as well as the leverage that portfolio companies are achieving with cloud computing.
Sun 28 Sep 2008
Greenplum, the grandest of the open source-based databases, whose massively parallel shared-nothing architecture supports petabyte data warehousing on cost-effective general-purpose hardware and promises linear scalability on thousands of processors, has pushed out its latest cut, rev 3.2, making it the first commercial database, the company says, to include MapReduce, the parallel computing technique pioneered by Goggle and copied by Yahoos Hadoop for analyzing the web.
Thu 25 Sep 2008
VMware is helping make our hospital more efficient and effective, said Nasir. Weve increased server utilization from eight percent to 70 percent. We expect to save over half a million dollars in two years with virtualization. That means we can focus more resources on delivering world-class healthcare. And all the improvements weve made in application availability and performance are helping our nurses and doctors spend more time attending to their patients rather than dealing with technical issues.
Wed 24 Sep 2008
IBM Threatens To Drop Out of Standards Bodies That Dont Meet Its Standards
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In a snit that Microsoft was able to push its OOXML file format through to ISO standardization, IBM, a big backer of the OOXML-opposing ODF file format, has instituted a new corporate policy that suggests it will pull out of standards bodies whose rules dont conform to what it thinks their process, membership and IP policies should be. It said it was going to embark on a review of its memberships and is encouraging other companies to adopt similar principles.
Mon 22 Sep 2008
I am pleased to share with you the results of consolidating efforts by James Urquhart on his blog and Rich Wellner and me offline, by way of a draft of a ‘consensus’ Cloud Computing Bill of Rights or Ten Commandments available on the brand new Cloud Computing Community Wiki (http://wiki.cloudcommunity.org/).
Mon 22 Sep 2008
Shavlik Technologies announced its partnership with managed service provider (MSP), BlueLock. The partnership enables BlueLock to deliver security patch management, application control, and configuration management via a cost effective, operationally efficient, and highly available solution that can scale to the needs of any customer. The Shavlik Security Suite provides BlueLock a very streamlined approach to the security and compliance management of both physical and virtual systems.
Mon 22 Sep 2008
The Storm Cloud of Innovation is where user demands and vendor dynamics are played out, where the interactions between suppliers and architects are precipitated around the need to overcome challenges and roadblocks on the journey to adoption. In this session, 451 Research Director for Infrastructure Management, Rachel Chalmers examines a range of technologies and companies in this cloud, including virtualization management, orchestration, provisioning and datacenter automation.