Re: [osol-discuss] Rumors about Sun HW/SW split

2009-08-29 Thread ken mays
> Orvar Korvar wrote: > > I dont like TPC-C. Why? SUN has before said that > TPC-Cs are pointless and meaningless. IBMs fastest server is > a 17 million USD machine with 2TB RAM. I thought SUN was > above those artificial benches. Maybe Oracle is not? > > > But what Sun needs is lots of marketin

Re: [osol-discuss] Rumors about Sun HW/SW split

2009-08-29 Thread Robert Milkowski
Orvar Korvar wrote: I dont like TPC-C. Why? SUN has before said that TPC-Cs are pointless and meaningless. IBMs fastest server is a 17 million USD machine with 2TB RAM. I thought SUN was above those artificial benches. Maybe Oracle is not? But what Sun needs is lots of marketing and publicit

Re: [osol-discuss] Rumors about Sun HW/SW split

2009-08-29 Thread Orvar Korvar
I dont like TPC-C. Why? SUN has before said that TPC-Cs are pointless and meaningless. IBMs fastest server is a 17 million USD machine with 2TB RAM. I thought SUN was above those artificial benches. Maybe Oracle is not? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Rumors about Sun HW/SW split

2009-08-28 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > http://www.oracle.com/features/sunoraclefaster.html > > -- >   -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersm...@sun.com >    Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Boo!!! LLS! (LongLiveSPARC!!!) : %martin __

Re: [osol-discuss] Rumors about Sun HW/SW split

2009-08-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
http://www.oracle.com/features/sunoraclefaster.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Rumors about Sun HW/SW split

2009-08-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
Jörg : Don't lower yourself to this, please. I can not read the German article nor do I care to waste my time on the translation. The english article is probably the same sort of content. Where it reveals this stunning observation : "Since then, though, Ellison has said that he inte

[osol-discuss] Rumors about Sun HW/SW split

2009-08-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Geht-Suns-Hardware-Sparte-doch-noch-an-HP--/meldung/144474 http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/08/27/oracle-could-deal-sun-hardware-to-hp/ Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.d

Re: [osol-discuss] rumors.

2009-03-23 Thread Robs
I have no knowledge of that at all. No knowledge of whether rumors are true or not. The reports all give some sort of timeline for whatever they are discussing. All I'm saying is that it would be nice to let things just play out. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. --Robs On 03/23/09 22:4

Re: [osol-discuss] Rumors about GPLd Java

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: If Sun does this, it is a good step, but it would stigmatise the CDDL as a license that is not really loved even inside Sun. No, it simply recognizes that every project has it's own set of goals and constraints which affect the license choice, and those are very differen

Re: [osol-discuss] Rumors about GPLd Java

2006-11-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No rumour at all. The entire stack is being licensed under the GPLv2, with > some > classpath exceptions. The major reason is getting to an OSI community approved > license that everyone has already agreed to [see gcj/classpath]. It's the > license with t

Re: [osol-discuss] Rumors about GPLd Java

2006-11-13 Thread Dick Davies
On 13/11/06, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If Sun does this, it is a good step, but it would stigmatise the CDDL as a license that is not really loved even inside Sun. Anybody knows more? This was quite a good read (from a 'why not BSD' perspective): http://www.infoq.com/news/200

Re: [osol-discuss] Rumors about GPLd Java

2006-11-13 Thread Glynn Foster
Joerg Schilling wrote: > If Sun does this, it is a good step, but it would > stigmatise the CDDL as a license that is not really loved even > inside Sun. > > Anybody knows more? No rumour at all. The entire stack is being licensed under the GPLv2, with some classpath exceptions. The major reas

[osol-discuss] Rumors about GPLd Java

2006-11-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
If Sun does this, it is a good step, but it would stigmatise the CDDL as a license that is not really loved even inside Sun. Anybody knows more? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED]