Posts by Jim 46 6 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2009
Last place where i worked anywhere near the email stuff, the mail servers were well resourced & tuned for high volumes and peak loads, unfortunately the same attention wasnt given to the virus/spam scanners that sat infront of them. The virus/spam filters were pedantic, buggy as hell and borked under load. And when they borked, the mail stopped flowing...
> It's a UK story, why are we being quoted copper prices in dollars?
And in weights in quaint olde imperial pounds instead of metrics? Sloppy work indeed Reg!
No harm done though, lets see if we cant fix this up.. $3 per pound... that works out to about...
4 Euros per Kilogram.
There you go AH, you can stop clutching your chest and relax, how 'bout you put the kettle on, and make us all a cuppa...
Paris: she doesnt know much about stealing copper, but she *has* been caught on camera taking wood...
I only just upgraded from XP to Vista a couple months ago. Seems like a lot of the problems people complained about in its early days have been ironed out - seems to work great.
I look forward to upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 in three years time, once *its* problems have been sorted out...
"MySQL ... is not going to complement Oracle's business".
It gives them the entry level and lower end of the DB market, meaning they end up covering the entire range of database customers: entry level up to enterprise.
"Solaris is now substantially open (AFAICS) ..."
OpenSolaris and Solaris target different parts of the operating system market, kinda similar to MySQL and Oracle in the database market. One is freely available, open to community development, the other is a commercial, high end product with the accompanying levels of service and support you would expect (yes, i do know one can purchase support contracts for both MySQL and OpenSolaris).
Sun employs the largest and most experienced collection of Solaris engineers in the world. What Oracle gets in this deal is that enterprise class version of the operating system, along with full control of the people who already develop and support it.
"Oracles ... stated direction to pursue non-proprietary ... server clusters ... where is there place for Sun in Oracle ?"
Sun brings their X64, blade servers, and lower cost 'open' storage products, which still happen to be one of the profitable areas of hardware in Sun. Sun are already selling clusters and supercomputers built upon these products.
- J
Paris, because she's open and saucy, but also high end and proprietary...
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