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Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) has unveiled its T4 processor, as well as its 9,600-thread SuperCluster behemoth. In the run-up to next week's Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd are proudly showing off their new stuff. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the feeds 'n' speeds. Not to mention: Guess the FUNCTION of the THING...

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

In the IT business, we often talk about stacks. Could Oracle be trying to build its own all-Oracle, top-to-bottom stack?

Oracle, owner of Sun Microsystems since January, has finally clarified roadmaps for its Solaris operating system and Sparc servers. Well, made them less uncertain, anyway. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers peer through the murk to divine the future. Not to mention online dating pics...
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With or without Oracle, the OpenSolaris crew, in the form of the new open-source operating system Illumos, is determined to keep their Unix-based operating system going.

The open-source Unix distribution may live on, but Oracle won't be supporting it.

A charismatic leader stands up and addresses the expectant faithful in the San Francisco Bay Area. No, not Steve Jobs' Apple iPad announcement, but Larry Ellison's unveiling of the Oracle/Sun strategy. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers discover what it means for Solaris, Java, SPARC, etc... Not to mention iPad: Steve Jobs's downfall?...
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IBM buying Sun is a done deal. But, what does that mean for Solaris and OpenSolaris? Java? NetBeans? Here are my best guesses.

In Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches IBM move forward with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Not to mention what Steve Wozniak did next...

[The title is with grudging apologies to Mike Rothman, but he still owes me plenty]

It's not just a rumor; sources are telling me that IBM is indeed in negotiations to buy Sun. Here's how it this deal may play out and what it might mean for Linux, Java, MySQL and OpenSolaris.

In the wake of massive layoffs and huge losses at Sun, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols attributes the compay's decline to its inability to decide key issues such as whether wanted to be a hardware or software company, an open source software company or a proprietary software company.

Here's a slightly different perspective on the carnage.

Microsoft announces that Google will now run on Windows Server 2004 and that Windows Longhorn will be out real soon now.

Sun posted a huge revenue loss, but discarding an unusual write-off, were things bad or not? Rain or shine, the Sun's still there.

I've just posted up my thoughts about the Solaris release that came out last year and includes, among other improvements, BrandZ.

One of the interesting things about BrandZ is that it lets you run Linux binaries without requiring Linux, and without requiring the traditional virtualization tools like Parallels, or VMware. Basically it creates and interface between Solaris and the Linux binary that makes the environment look like the Linux kernel and libraries.

Is it wrong to want to run a different operating system on another platform?

We kind of take for granted that PCs are multi-talented and therefore capable of running different OS, but how about other hardware and systems. Is it right that I run Gentoo on my Sun SPARC box?

The reality is that it's nice to have the choice. Being able to run OpenBSD on the T1 CPU and make use of those multiple cores has a lot of appeal to those users who prefer the OpenBSD environment over the Solaris one.