Shai Agassi on his way out of SAP - Haaretz - Israel News

Shai Agassi on his way out of SAP - Haaretz - Israel News: "Agassi, 38, who had been named by Time Magazine one of the 100 most influential people, is leaving by mutual agreement to pursue interests in environmental policy and alternative energy sources. "

Intel Begins Shipping Classmate PC - Computing News - Digital Trends

Intel Begins Shipping Classmate PC - Computing News - Digital Trends: "Now, Intel as re-asserted itself, surprising many industry watchers by announcing it is shipping its Classmate PC in volume to Mexico and Brazil, apparently beating the celebrated OLPC out the door."

Intel’s “SuiteTwo” Web 2.0 play - the Good, Bad, and Ugly » TinyScreenfuls.com

Intel’s “SuiteTwo” Web 2.0 play - the Good, Bad, and Ugly » TinyScreenfuls.com: " SuiteTwo is a collection of blog, wiki, and RSS tools and companies that Intel Capital is investing in. It’s targeted at “small and medium sized” businesses, and it’s basically a bundle of products from SocialText (wiki), SixApart (Moveable Type blogs), NewsGator (enterprise aggregation), and SimpleFeed (feed publishing). A company called SpikeSource will be somehow sewing all of these disparate packages into one."

Oracle Sues SAP

Oracle Sues SAP: "On March 22, 2007, Oracle filed a lawsuit in U.S. Federal District Court in the Northern District of California against SAP. Among the claims made against SAP are violations of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, Unfair Competition, Intentional and Negligent Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage and Civil Conspiracy.
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Techdirt: An Economic Explanation For Why DRM Cannot Open Up New Business Model Opportunities

Techdirt: An Economic Explanation For Why DRM Cannot Open Up New Business Model Opportunities: "DRM is fundamentally opposed to this concept. It is not increasing value for the consumer in any way, but about limiting it. It takes the non-scarce goods, the very thing that helps increase value, and constrains them. Those non-scarce goods are what increase the pie and open up new opportunities for those who know where to capture the monetary rewards of that value (within other limited resources). DRM, on the other hand, holds back that value and prevents it from being realized. It shrinks the pie -- and no successful business models come out of providing less value and shrinking the overall pie. Fundamentally, DRM cannot create a successful new business model. It can only contain one. "

Web Server tuning (MSFT)

Link: Balancing threads against overall performance as measured by connections and requests can be difficult. Any time you tune threads, follow-up with overall performance monitoring to see if performance increases or decreases. To determine if you should adjust the thread count, compare the number of threads and the processor time for each thread in the process to the total processor time. If the threads are constantly busy, but are not fully using the processor time, performance may benefit from creating more threads. However, if all the threads are busy and the processors are close to their maximum capacity, you are better off distributing the load across more servers rather than increasing the number of threads

A peek inside Google's war chest

A peek inside Google's war chest: "Google's cost of sales for 2006 was 8 percent. By way of comparison, Microsoft cost of sales stood at 22 percent for fiscal year 2006, Yahoo at 20 percent, and Apple at 13 percent."

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The $7 TV Network | PBS

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The $7 TV Network | PBS: "but today they are, the trick being to somehow enable an efficient multicast-type experience without turning on multicast support in the routers, where multicasting remains switched off.

Enter Neokast, the brainchild of a PhD candidate from Northwestern University, Stefan Birrer. Neokast uses peer-to-peer technology to effectively emulate a multicast experience."

Advertising Age - AUDIO: Bob Garfield vs. Bill Gates

Advertising Age - AUDIO: Bob Garfield vs. Bill Gates: "GARFIELD: Tell me about your work with AT&T to develop IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) -- basically internet TV. What effect will that have on our consumer habits and what effect will that have on the broadcast industry?

GATES: Well, what we call IPTV is enabled by the fact that the internet has enough bandwidth to carry even high-definition video signals. So instead of getting just a broadcast signal that goes the same thing to every household, there's data over the internet that's targeted specifically at that TV set. And so if you're watching a news segment, the areas of great interest to you are made longer and the ones of less interest to you are made shorter. The sports you want are more in-depth, the weather you care about. Likewise, the ads are based on what would be interesting to you. So not everyone who's watching the news show is seeing the same ads. "

Alexa Web Search - Top 500

Alexa Web Search - Top 500: "Top Sites "

Alexa Web Search - Help

Alexa Web Search - Help: "lexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users. The information is sorted, sifted, anonymized, counted, and computed, until, finally, we get the traffic rankings shown in the Alexa service. The process is relatively complex, but if you have a need to know, please read on."

Living People do NOT Outnumber the Dead

Article he estimated that slightly over 106 billion people had ever been born. Of those, people alive today comprise only 6 percent, nowhere near 75 percent. "[It is] almost surely true people alive today are some small fraction of [all] people"

What’s So Funny? Well, Maybe Nothing

Link: the brain has ancient wiring to produce laughter so that young animals learn to play with one another. The laughter stimulates euphoria circuits in the brain and also reassures the other animals that they’re playing, not fighting.

i-Technology Viewpoint: Those Who Can, Code; Those Who Can't, Architect @ JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL

i-Technology Viewpoint: : "Those Who Can, Code; Those Who Can't, Architect"

Coding Horror: Dude, Where's My 4 Gigabytes of RAM?

Coding Horror: Dude, Where's My 4 Gigabytes of RAM?: "Don't get too excited, though. The user-mode virtual address space in 64-bit Windows is a mere 8 terabytes. "

My Way News - AMD Finds Itself in Financial Peril

My Way News - AMD Finds Itself in Financial Peril: "n 2006, AMD siphoned about 5 percent of the server market from Intel, but leveled out at 22 percent share during the second half, according to Mercury Research."

Top 1000 Web Servers Survey: Which Web Server Is "Winning"? :: Port80 Software

Top 1000 Web Servers Survey: Which Web Server Is "Winning"? :: Port80 Software: " Port80 Software's Top 1000 Corporations Web Server Survey focuses exclusively on the corporate sites of Fortune 1000 companies. Technically, the two surveys are very similar -- each uses a header check to determine which software is being used to serve a particular hostname, and are therefore surveys of domains rather than of actual servers"

Survey: Microsoft IIS 6 Ahead of Apache

Survey: Microsoft IIS 6 Ahead of Apache: "Port80 Software said IIS 4, 5, and 6 deployments combine for a 54.9 percent share of all Fortune 1000 corporate sites versus Apache's 23.3 percent share.
'The rapid adoption of IIS 6 among Fortune 1000 companies underscores Microsoft's leadership in the corporate market,' Joseph Lima, director of product development at San Diego-based Port80 Software, said in a statement. "

The Port80 survey also showed that Microsoft ASP.Net application server environments are used on 48.4 percent of Fortune 1000 sites.

Other platforms, including Java application server environments like IBM's WebSphere, BEA Systems's WebLogic, Sun Microsystems' JSP (JavaServer Pages), the open-source Tomcat platform, and technologies such as PHP and ColdFusion all combined to account for only 21.2 percent of Fortune 1000 site deployments, the survey said.

See also: http://www.port80software.com/surveys/

LAMP paper on IBM Power

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/whitepapers/lamp.html

Web server consolidation

handbook_chapter1.pdf (application/pdf Object)

handbook_chapter1.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Improving Web Site Performance
Arun Iyengar, Erich Nahum, Anees Shaikh, Renu Tewari
IBM Research