First IBM Power5 server to debut Monday | CNET News.com

First IBM Power5 server to debut Monday | CNET News.com

Taking the stupidity out of 'Stupid Patent Tricks'

Taking the stupidity out of 'Stupid Patent Tricks': "'You can tell the system isn't working,' he says, 'when engineers don't respect it. And they don't. They see patents being awarded to people they consider not as smart as they are for work they think is mediocre, and they think it's a game. It should be an honour to be granted a patent. We should raise the bar.' "

NewsForge | CARP your way to high availability

NewsForge | CARP your way to high availability: "CARP your way to high availability"

HP takes on Fujitsu Siemens, Dell, IBM

HP takes on Fujitsu Siemens, Dell, IBM: "THE SERVER DIVISION of HP is saying that its Proliant ML370 G3 has set a record for the highest performing and lowest price performance results for 1P and 2P servers.
It said that two way TPC-C performance and price performance amopunted to 60,364 transactions per minute while having a 'bang for the buck' of $3.51. Meanwhile, a one way system gave 35,030 tpmC at a price performance of $1.88/tpmC"

Sun Community Source Licensing (SCSL) - Principles

Sun Community Source Licensing (SCSL) - Principles: "With a Research Use license, a developer may take any approach to using the source code in order to determine whether the technology can be of use; in fact, the developer can do all the work leading up to deployment with such a license. "

NewsForge | Gosling defends Sun's new partnership with Microsoft

NewsForge | Gosling defends Sun's new partnership with Microsoft: "'How can Sun show us that it still has the strength, vision, and leadership to deserve our support and loyalty? The way they should do it, in my opinion, is by ensuring that a significant portion of the settlement proceeds will be used to benefit Java developers and strengthen independent, standards-based efforts to advance Java.' "

NewsForge | Gosling defends Sun's new partnership with Microsoft

NewsForge | Gosling defends Sun's new partnership with Microsoft: "'How can Sun show us that it still has the strength, vision, and leadership to deserve our support and loyalty? The way they should do it, in my opinion, is by ensuring that a significant portion of the settlement proceeds will be used to benefit Java developers and strengthen independent, standards-based efforts to advance Java.' "

Free but shackled: The Java trap

NewsForge | Free but shackled: The Java trap: "Sun's implementation of Java is non-free. Blackdown is also non-free; it is an adaptation of Sun's proprietary code. The standard Java libraries are non-free also. We do have free implementations of Java, such as the GNU Java Compiler "

Techworld.com - Linux goes zoom zoom zoom with kernel upgrade

Techworld.com - Linux goes zoom zoom zoom with kernel upgrade: "Claims of speed hikes of up to 1,000 per cent are being made by developers Linus Torvalds "

IBM dedicates module to Java on mainframes

IBM dedicates module to Java on mainframes | CNET News.com: "he zSeries Application Assist Processor (zAAP) is essentially a dedicated processor for Java applications. Java runs on IBM mainframes now but has not had dedicated hardware. The zAAP costs $125,000 per microprocessor. "

ITworld.com - Sun, Microsoft pact draws mixed reactions

ITworld.com - Sun, Microsoft pact draws mixed reactions: "'We are very close to pulling off one of the great repositionings of the post-Internet bubble,' said Scott McNealy, Sun's chairman and chief executive officer,"

The Sun - Microsoft Settlement (washingtonpost.com)

The Sun - Microsoft Settlement (washingtonpost.com): "Years ago, Sun was #1 in high-performance workstations, then Microsoft came along with cheap PC's which decimated Sun's business. Sun then moved in high-performance servers, then Dell and Linux came to wipe out most of their current business model."

Intel's Irwindale is a 2MB Nocona - but standard Nocona slips a quarter

Intel's Irwindale is a 2MB Nocona - but standard Nocona slips a quarter: "Irwindale will, apparently be the processor brand name for a Nocona processor that has 2MB of level two cache. "

Microsoft pays Sun over $1.6 billion to settle differences

Microsoft pays Sun over $1.6 billion to settle differences: "Sun has licensed the Windows desktop operating system communications from Microsoft. Microsoft will carry on creating support for the Java virtual engine.
Both Sun and Microsoft will cooperate on Java and .NET. Each have said they won't sue each other over anything that has happened in the past."

Yahoo! News - Sun Microsystems sees loss of 750-810 million dollars, cuts 3,300 jobs

Yahoo! News - Sun Microsystems sees loss of 750-810 million dollars, cuts 3,300 jobs: "Sun Microsystems announced it expects to see a third-quarter 2003-04 loss between 750-810 million dollars, a per-share drop of 23-25 cents. "