2005 March | .:: a few thoughts on the subject by rob wright ::.

James Governor has an interesting piece on a customer driven marriage of Sun and IBM. If you haven’t read, there’s some significant tension between Sun and IBM regarding Solaris 10.

The odd piece of this whole “disagreement” is IBM’s software strategy (WebSphere, DB2, MQ, Tivoli) has clearly been to move software and services regardless of hardware. Okay, so maybe IBM wouldn’t be happy if a company chose WebSphere on a Solaris 10 x86 box rather than a Linux x86 box, but they’ll still get the software and services. And I’m sure that there’s a group within IBM that doesn’t care about hardware.

So I think that some of Schwartz’s talk and IBM’s resonse is wave-making, but in the end, given the demand, IBM will support Solaris on x86….that’s got to be easier than Linux on every ThinkPad model.

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March 27, 2005

links for 2005-03-27

March 27th 2005 Posted to Variety

Joe Beda’s EightyPercent.net - Inside Google

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March 26, 2005

Hawkins forms “new AI” Company

March 26th 2005 Posted to Technology

As noted by Forbes.com: Building A Better Brain and /., Jeff Hawkins starts Numeta. I’m listening to On Intelligence. It is an extremely interesting book…absolutely amazing how the brain works.

I find it interesting that pattern recognition is a fundamental function of the neocortex and patterns have been an obsession in computer science for the past 10 years.

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March 22, 2005

Hands-on Solaris 10 account

March 22nd 2005 Posted to Technology

Via James Govenor, Tim Bray describes his experience with Solaris 10 on Sun Opteron hardward in It Takes A Licking

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Apps designed for USB Drives

March 22nd 2005 Posted to Technology

If you didn’t see it on /., a nice list of apps designed to run on USB drives, Jeremy Wagstaff’s LOOSE wire: A Directory Of Programs Designed For USB Drives

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March 16, 2005

Schwartz hints at Open Source Java

March 16th 2005 Posted to Technology

In this post on Microsoft open-source FUD, Jonathan Schwartz hits at open source Java. Nice, but I hope this isn’t a sign of desparation by Sun. I really like that company.

UPDATE: More information in this CNet article.

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