The Desktop Fishbowl
Charles blogs all the random nerd stuff he can find.
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Friday, 1 February 2002 |
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Ellison: Oracle's "whole business" will run on Linux
By "whole business", he means he's replacing three HP-Unix boxes that run the company's business apps with an Intel/Linux cluster. Ellison's prediction that big boxes are going to die is a trifle premature. IBM's Great Server Heist campaign comes to mind as a counter-meme.
A nice aside comes when you look at where this puts Microsoft in Server-Space. On one side, you've got the Big Boxes. You can't run NT on anything but Intel hardware, so Microsoft can't go there. On the other side, you've got the clusters of commodity Intel hardware. For NT servers, the OS licensing costs are quite likely going to approach the amount you're spending on hardware. That's a powerful incentive to go with Linux.
(It's also a rather loud warning to IBM and BEA's Java application servers. JBoss is at about the same stage today as Linux was when it hit kernel 2.0 - used by a lot of hobbyists, but with the big players looking down on it as untested, and missing several enterprise features. I have this feeling that it's only a matter of time.) 2:05:41 PM 
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an overview of JXTA. Gene Kan gave an overview of JXTA. He admits that Jini is dead; Java was holding it down like a weight. The edges of the universe are growing faster than the center but inequality of load is growing, not shrinking. Porn is too hard to find on the Internet today. They're using the Apache license; screw Richard Stallman. He touts that JXTA isn't IP-only, which is a dubious advantage IMO. [Hack the Planet]
I sort of liked Jini (I own enough bloody books on the subject), but it was one of those things that was really hampered by Java's more bondage-and-discipline tendencies. It was also a complete bastard to get an environment running, but from what I've seen, so's JXTA. 1:07:49 PM
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US Senate debates the merits of face-recognition technology. Deleted commentary, I didn't read the article close enough, and I knee-jerked. 11:55:12 AM
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