Bubble dejaVu
In the bubble days it wasn’t uncommon to have several mails a day from somewhere in Sun telling you about some big announcement, or some big sale.
Today was just like one of those days.
For a start, after a couple of years of painfully low presence in the Top 500 Sun plans to get back into the Top 5 with a project involving the Tokyo Institute of Technology. This will be accomplished using 10,480 AMD Opteron processor cores. I dont have any dual core opteron machines in my test lab yet, but the single core 40z’s are great. Importantly they have a good management interface that you can ssh into to do any maintenance.
Jonathans last Blog entry made some sense.
Sun decided to give away its compilers. Opensolaris users will already be familiar with Studio 10, but now Studio 11 will be added. This was a pet hate of mine when I first encountered Solaris in university – where the hell is the compiler! “Language optional software package not installed” GAAaaaaa! It’s an obvious thing to do really, in order to encourage developers to look at Solaris 10 it helps to give them the tools they need.
Wonder whats going to happen tomorrow!
For the patching fans I’ll have some blog posts on the way regarding patching, in particular around Live Upgrade and newboot, in the next few weeks.
Hi, thanks for the info.