Red Hat’s chairman wins enterprising award. Sun updates StarOffice. Barracuda Networks acquires 3SP. Reaction to Sun’s reorganization. Barack Obama’s laptop. And more.
Press releases
Red Hat, Inc.’s Matthew Szulik Named Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008 Overall National Winner Ernst &
Young
Ingres Launches Ingres Database 9.2 Ingres
Sun Microsystems Unveils StarOffice 9 Software Sun Microsystems
Red Hat Increases Authorization to Repurchase Common Stock Red Hat
…[Read more]Following up on my previous post Peter asked if he could see a 24 hour run on the Intel drive… took me a few days because I am doing some testing on a few other things, but I kicked a run off yesterday before leaving the Vegas airport… Here ya go:
These are roughly 10 minute TPM averages. As you can see their is a definate decline in performance the longer the drive is active. Its realtively small% wise, only about 6% off of peak… but the delcine is easy to spot.
What’s this mean? It you beat the hell out of the drive over a long contious period things slow down the longer the drive is in continuous use. Just an FYI, the drive was 78% full during these tests.
Sun Microsystems slashes jobs in major restructuring. SpringSource gets Groovy with G2One. Novell goes after Red Hat. Sonatype confirms Marc Visser as new CEO. Neil Young’s new car. And more.
Press releases
Sun Microsystems Aligns Business with Global
Economic Climate and Amplifies Growth Opportunities Across Open
Source Platforms Sun Microsystems
SpringSource Acquires G2One Inc SpringSource
Novell Announces New Program to Aid Transition to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Novell
[Read more]Thought I would throw this out here so I remember it, and it maybe useful for someone else. During a session here at Sun’s CEC conference one of the presenter was talking about setting CPU affinity for hardware interrupts. This made me think of our hack ( workaround ) for innodb scalability on a 16 core machine ( set the mysqld affinity to cpu’s 0-7 or 8-15 ). In order to get the top performance out of a 16 core machine we probably want to ensure everything else goes to the cpu’s not set to be servicing mysql. So a quick google search came up with this article on setting the affinity for IRQ’s in the linux kernel. So with a 16 core box, I could set the affinity for Mysqld to cpu’s 8-15, while setting the affinity of the interrupts to something in the 0-7 range.
I’m not someone who wakes up every day and looks at how my blog is ranked by all of the various services. I check out my WordPress stats, but that’s really about it. However, someone went and did some of the work for me, and they’ve decided that, of the blogs that they read or that were suggested to them, this blog ranks #20 in a listing of 25.
I’m really flattered, but wonder if it’s an indicator that this is a quality blog, or that they should aim higher in their blog reading ;-P Either way, listing 25 bloggers in a flattering way is a fantastic marketing technique, because most of us are probably egomaniacal enough to say “Hey! Look!” and link back to the list on *your* blog, resulting in lots of traffic. Kudos, and thanks Mobile Maven!
The Workbench team have just announced the release of Workbench for Linux, including binary packages and source packages with instructions on how to build.
I’m a Gentoo Linux user, so I prefer building from source, and
you’ll need to emerge the following packages (and
note the USE) requirement as part of the source
build process:
# USE="svg" emerge libzip libxml2 libsigc++ \
libglade libgtksourceviewmm media-libs/glut mysql lua \
ossp-uuid libpcre libgnome gtk+ pango cairo
Depending on your config and platform, you may need to bypass
some package masking by adding the packages to your
/etc/portage/package.keywords file.
Then download and install the ctemplate library from
google code page. The current Gentoo …
In case anyone is interested in a copy of my slides for the two lightning talks I gave at the Open Source Days 2008 conference, I have made them available here:
I waqs quite pleased with the benchmark that I prepared for the InnoDB mini-talk, where I measure the performance …
[Read more]A busy week for Sun includes new product releases and an annual shareholders’ meeting. Microsoft tries to unseat open source with BizSpark for entrepreneurs. Who is making money from open source? Obama: Open source President? And more.
Press releases
IBM, Sun Microsystems Launch ODF Toolkit Union To
Grow Adoption, Community and Software Innovation Sun
Microsystems
Sun Unveils New Systems And Storage Solutions For MySQL Sun Microsystems
Microsoft Jump-Starts Global Entrepreneurs With BizSpark Microsoft
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[Read more]Sun Microsystems always seems to be forced to defend itself, whether it is the company’s ongoing strategy amid dimmed revenue and earnings or its participation in open source. As one who recently considered the fate of a somewhat weakened Sun, I’d also like to highlight a recent series of promising technologies and efforts — dominated by open source — from the venerable technology giant.
Despite continued doubts, Sun continues to focus its strategy on open source software, which is finding its way into the company’s Solaris OS, storage technology with ZFS file system and MySQL database and elsewhere. The company recently launched a new Web site where it is figuratively letting its open source ponytail down and more succinctly staking out its place and …
[Read more]I wrote yesterday that Christensen’s law of Conservation of Attractive Profits could be used to explain why open source vendors are increasingly turning to hybrid development and licensing strategies to generate revenue from open source.
Before I could think about doing so Arjen Lentz wrote a comment that did a lot of the explaining for me.
To recap, “The Law of Conservation of Attractive Profits”, articulated by Clayton Christensen in his book The Innovator’s Solution, states:
“When attractive profits disappear at one stage in the value chain because a product becomes modular and commoditized, the …
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