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Suns tracking SGI

IBM dropped its offer to acquire Sun for $7billion. Sun has now a series of projects for which it has large costs, but no clear method of making money. What did Sun gain from open sourcing Solaris, from giving away

yodaiken April 5, 2009 operating systems, software business Read more

SGI assets to Rackable – the mighty have fallen

SGI has filed for banruptcy and Rackable has bid $25M for the assets – which through the miracle of bankruptcy law can now be peeled off from the debts.  SGI is partly one of the victims of the Itanium (or

yodaiken April 3, 2009 Uncategorized Read more

Power Systems Reliability Challenges

It is becoming more common for fire ants to build nests in pad mounted equipment. Their nesting materials can cause short circuits, the ants can eat away at conductor insulation, and they make equipment maintenance a challenge. from Power System

yodaiken April 2, 2009 Uncategorized Read more

Happy Birthday to Emmy Noether

March 23.  So much for you, Larry Summers, mere economist.

yodaiken March 23, 2009 Uncategorized Read more

Software comes from the sky and labor is overpaid: NOT!

John Dvorak concludes an otherwise sensible  article on the effect of Linux/Office-clone packages combined with netbooks with the following: If Intel can provide users with powerful little systems for $99 and has been pushing prices lower and lower over the

yodaiken March 9, 2009 software business Read more

Program structure and threads

Threads were initially used for telephony systems where each request to connect could be given to a new thread to manage. The simplification was, in theory, dramatic. The programmer could just write the code for handling a single line, and

yodaiken March 5, 2009February 17, 2016 operating systems Read more

Marine One Blueprints via Pirates Bay

Goodness. The US blueprints for Marine1 show up in Iran. “What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, Md., had a file-sharing program on one of their systems that also contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One,” Boback said.

yodaiken March 2, 2009 software security Read more

AIG and me

The New York Times has an article explaining the business model of the  failed insurer AIG that is giving me a new perspective on why I walked out of a bank in New Mexico wondering whether it was worth it

yodaiken March 1, 2009 software business Read more

Are threads evil? (updated)

This paper by Prof. Edward Lee explains something of why “threads” are such a painful abstraction.  As Prof. Lee notes, threads intrinsically create unspecified program operation (which he calls non-determinism) and resource conflicts which we then attempt to “prune” via

yodaiken February 25, 2009February 20, 2016 systems, theory Read more

Venture Capital falls off the cliff

Through all the bumps and strains in the broader economy, venture outlays kept up an almost eerily steady pace over the previous 21 months, ranging between $7.3 billion and $8 billion each quarter, from the start of 2007 to the

yodaiken February 2, 2009 software business Read more
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