Posts by Allison Park

Microsoft's ARM blunder: 7 reasons why Windows RT was DOA

Re: Surface Pro will also fail

Winner of the down vote contest! Just goes to prove the truth hurts.

Re: Surface Pro will also fail

Open source, Open O/S, Open HW it's all BS

Why is everyone buying Apple? Because it is the best overall device, HW/SW/Apps/accessories

Integration value trumpts best of breed component and that is the future.

This is also why linux on x86 is the next downward spiral for Intel. HP was the first to fall, Intel is next then Microsoft.

e99

Microsoft to end Windows 8 discounts on January 31

still pondering spending $15

I am not a fan of win8 on my HP touchsmart, why would I upgrade any of my non-touch screens for $119?

oh and anyone can get the $15 upgrade, just say you bought the system yesterday on the upgrade site.

HP itching to flog flaccid biz units: Are Autonomy, PSG in firing line?

Re: Allison Park 1+1=7?

if you put HP in your comments instead of IBM I would agree with your statements and not view you as a ostrich with your head in the sand

Re: Allison Park 1+1=7?

Matt....I hope you don't buy HP stock. Your so tainted by your HP bias I am sure you must have lost 75% of your value in the last 3 years whilst watching your IBM rep get rich.

your sky is falling on IBM proclamations are getting stupider every day.

Re: Allison Park 1+1=7?

I think it had more to do with consumer market vs. business market. HP is trying to do both and given their $29B market cap vs. IBM's $221B market cap you have to admit the sky is falling over at HP. I did pick up a few thousand shares of HP right after they announced the $8B write off. Sure sounded like the stock hit bottom with no where to go but up. So far up 30%. Except for my expensive ink printer and my touchsmart PC I don't like their gear.

e99

Re: 1+1=7?

My IBM rep laughs every time he discusses how important the PC business was to IBM's server business. Supposedly it was a $1B loss every year so when they sold it they automatically became a $1B more profitable company.

I am sure HP would dump it in a heart beat if they could get an Asian company to pay a reasonable rate. It's a dying business as this year everything Santa brought was from apple and didnt have a keyboard.

HP, now microsoft, can intel save itself? Windows 8 really sucks.

'Holey code, Batman!' Microsoft to patch 12 vulns on Tuesday

Re: help

that was so unobvious just like everything else about win8 i want my start button back and to only have to go the the "start screen" when i want to play backgammon

help

I still have not found the virus program in windows 8 they say its here somewhere. I used to just go the the bottom of the task bar

Eric Schmidt heading on mystery mission to North Korea

is he still under the do no evil pledge?

reminds me on the post office pledge every time they dont show up in the snow.

Intel's set-top TV effort snags on cable

Intel needs to focus on volume chips

phones/tablets/tv's/set top boxes are the only way they will pay for their expensive fab addiction.

unfortunately you cannot change the quickly in the IT chip world and intel is doomed for the next few years as PC's go from a 1-2 year refresh to 4-5 and phones/tablets instead get refreshed every 2 years.

did i mention windows 8 is bipolar? it truly sucks its like I am running vmware and two o/s's and have to switch back and forth to do what i used to do with just windows. extremely annoying

The LINUX TABLET IS THE FUTURE - and it always will be

Re: What Counts

I am thinking the answer to tablets is IBM's AIX operating system.

Seriously AIX is bullet proof, never fails, has thousands of mission critical applications.

Yes and none of those thing matter to the after tablet holder who just buys an ipad and

holds the power/home button to fix whatever is wront.

Microsoft is the next HP tablet...forget what is was called even thought i bought one...then gave it away

face it Microsoft/Intel "WinTel" is dead and HP is deader....samsung and apple ownt the mobile mkt.

e99

Instagram BOWS to pressure, revises T&Cs – a little

She should do porn

Oh that's right she already did. She should go back to doing porn. That was the one thing I think she was good at doing.

Same goes for you Paris.

e99

Ellison: Oracle will grow hardware biz soon

Re: Oracle, .... a busted flush with no future leading IP

I heard the cloud services team is being forced to use Exa-data and Exa-Logic to double count the hardware dollars and cloud dollars. Rumor also has it they are not happy with Sun x86 hardware. Notice how they said Sun hardware.

Re: Oracle, .... a busted flush with no future leading IP

"We're just about finishing with the downsizing phase," Ellison said cheerfully.

==> yeah after two years of firing, cancelling, delaying, cutting so they squeeze every penny out of the install base they are amost done. There is no future in hardware at Oracle, but then again neither is there at Teradata or what was Netezza. Just OEM the Intel boards.

Hardware systems products sales fell by 23 per cent, to $734m, and support revenues on the installed Oracle/Sun hardware base fell by 6 per cent to $587m. Add them up, and the combined hardware systems sales fell by 16 per cent to $1.32bn.

==> Mark Turd is doing the same thing to the Oracle business he did to HP, the only difference it is a cash cow to the software business.

===> Anyone that buys those Sun x86 servers embedded in "EXA-crap" better get ready for RAC cluster evacuations, and rebuilds.

Big Blue etches silicon nanophotonics with regular chip tech

Re: Strangely quiet.

Look at Market cap the true value of a company (at lease how investors view it)

IBM $212B

FB $61B

Sadly HP is $28B. I would hate to have to be part of the organization that Mark Hurd set on the course for failure.

Then the board destroyed the company.

You heard it hear first. Carl Icahn will buy a substantial portion of the company and the first thing he will do is fire Ray Lane. Ray is the reason the board is dysfunctional and hires a CEO none of them ever interviewed. Meg is doing her best, but the jury is still out as Ray is still calling the shots.

NASA planning Curiosity v2.0 for Mars touchdown in 2020

we need to find water

we can certainly change mars into an earth, it just takes determination, time and taxes.

Server revenues decline in the third quarter

Unix = IBM

For those Itanium fanboys (or just Matt the fanboy) or Snorcle groupies getting burned by Larry you cannot deny the facts of a capitalistic world. Revenue & profit drive investment and innovation, especially in the high cost technology sector.

"At the turn of the millennium, these Unix boxes dominated server revenues and Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems were on top and IBM was the upstart. Now HP has declined massively, Sun has been eaten by Oracle and shrunk to drive profits, and IBM absolutely dominates Unix." Always curious if you just forget about HP/Oracle and only compare IBM mainframe, IBM Power and the x86 business if Unix would get a better growth view.

"HP was the number two Unix system supplier in the quarter, with $387.5m in revenues, but sales were off 28.2 per cent." Still curious if the latest CEO is interested in Itanium, last I heard she said they need to get their Itanium customers to something they want hence Odyssey and because ISV's especially Oracle wont port to HP-UX/x86 they wont port something ISV's wont support.

"Oracle revenues off 35.5 per cent to $354.8m." I am sure the profit margins are going up as they are cutting costs everywhere, raising maintenance prices and delaying products.

" Fujitsu's Solaris server biz was down 23.2 per cent to a piddling $50m in the quarter." And why would Fujitsu stay in the Solaris business? Stubborn only lasts so long.

e99

Astronomers find biggest black hole, 17 BILLION times the size of Sun

chalk board

anyone else notice their is a diagram on the chalk board that looks a lot like a penis?

Re: "Time for a rethink" suggests Dr. Karl

I saw the "click to enlarge" link on Karl's picture and got scared.

What happens when two galaxies collide, actually not much since there is so much distance between the stars.

But if the black hole is is on the right trajectory it can swallow up most of the other galaxy and possibly merge the two black holes.

I am curious who funds this work? It is tuition or part of our $16B of debt?

HP: AUTONOMY 'misrepresented' its value by $5 BILLION, calls in SEC

Re: innovate or acquire?

They call it Toilet and Douche for a reason.

let's just say I was right and Matt Bryant was wrong. No company is worth $50M per employee. If it wasn't for Larry being such an ass everyone would agree with Oracle that it was not even worth a quarter of the half they were offered to buy it.

Curious why Oracle could get it at $6B and HP ended up buying it for $12B, did someone have pictures of someone? In today's cell phone camera world I wouldn't doubt that is the real reason.

too-da-loo

IBM drops Lotus brand from next version of Notes

Notes is great just not at email

unfortunately most people just used it for email which was a mess.

Just guessing here but I think the Lotus brand and experts they acquired helped them build websphere which has been the real success.

toodaloo

Israel declares war on Hamas via Twitter

everything is Englands fault

If England didn't do such a horrible job of imperialism and country creation we would not be in this mess of india/pakistan isreal/middle east. The Brits need to be the ones losing their lives over this travesty.

HP revs up Integrity, Superdomes for Itanium 9500s

get a life

Linux has always had a slight edge on aix on power because it is a light weight O/S with minimal reliability compared to AIX.

I must say you have defended HP well, somwhere along the line the late, slow, divestment of socket compatibility promise, lake of hardware virtualization in Itanium, cratering revenue and marketshare, Oracle disinterest, Oracle doubling of cost per core for no performance justification, microsoft/redhat/suse dumping it, nasty the sky is falling hp internal documents outed by Oracle, deception of customers about itaniums futgure...etc...etc turned into a turbo core or not question on the 780. Go buy your 2.53GHZ itanic chips while the rest of the world decides if they would like to run Power7+ at 3.8GHz or 4.2GHz.

toodalooo

Re: Well.....

show proof that itanium can compete with Power7+ and is not 1/3rd the performance. Everything we have seen from ibm and hp would say Power7 cores are 2.5x the performance of tukwila cores and Power7+ will be at least 3x the performance of Poulson cores. When do Poulson systems ship? We got delivery of Power7+ systems last month.

do the math and sd2 can only compete with 770 and not with the new 780 power7+ box

still trying to find out why the tukwila/poulson chips have 5 qpi links since ther are not enough for the blades and only 2 (3) are used on sd2. Just seems bizarre.

Re: a few questions from folks stuck with a few Itanium systems

Matt has got completely insane.

My questions are not ibm, they are customer questions.

I jokingly copied the kittson remarks from Oracle's website and he thinks its from IBM marketing. google the kittson comment and you will see they are oracle. The Oracle rep here is still telling us they are doing the minimum development possible and since hp-ux is not getting any new licenses customers would be insane to put new releases on something that does not have critical mass cause they might get nuked.

Then Matt goes on to say ibm might have itanium servers in the future. Matt are on you vacation in Colorado smoking somthings? Last I checked the only o/s's running on itanium were HP-UX, VMS and Tandem non-stop. I am sure there is some obscure OS since they are showing bull, nec, hitachi china somebody. I think NEC is really just a HP OEM so they dont count.

socket compatibility with xeon is a divestment from intel not a customer benefit since they broke their promise of socket compatibility from tukwila to kittson.

well so much for my weekend in FL, gotta catch my flight back to NY. I miss FL

Too-da-loo

Re: a few questions from folks stuck with a few Itanium systems

HP instructed Intel to break Kittson (renamed “Kittson22” or “K22”) into “two

sequential HP system product releases” separated by one to two-and-a-half years “with the

timing as requested by HP . . . .” The obvious and intended purpose of this is to further the

illusion of a longer roadmap—and again, extend the end of life visibility date that was so

important to customers. In HP’s words, “HP will be able to extend the Itanium roadmap by

releasing a follow-on to Kittson about 2 years later (dubbed K22+ for now)” which will

“[e]xtend our BCS and TS profit pool longer (this takes us to about 2017).” Importantly, the

“second” Kittson chip (K22+) will not reflect incremental development and functionality. Under

the agreement, the aggregate functionality of the two releases is established first, with HP

retaining the right to withhold known Kittson functionalities until the ostensibly next-generation

chip. HP did not reveal any of this to the marketplace.

19. The new agreement also clearly allows Intel to disinvest in Itanium,

immediately. A key part of this is that K22 is to be a “Xeon socket compatible” microprocessor.

That means that Intel is only developing a new Itanium “core,” which will then be combined

with Xeon components (“uncore”) to create the full chipset solution. The typical reason this is

done—and the reason here—is that it is cheaper, here for Intel, to reuse uncore from another

product (Xeon) rather than build specialized uncore for Itanium

a few questions from folks stuck with a few Itanium systems

1) Is Itanium the last major chip to get to 8 cores? Better 3 years late than never I guess.

2) Does it still have the strange 5 QPI links? You need 7 for the blades and they only use 3 for superdome

3) Do they have hardware based virtualization yet? IVM needs hardware assists

4) When will HP have an SAP benchmark? three generations since a benchmark?

5) What is the performance per oracle license? Seems to be the lowest in the list.

6) After tukwila delay we were promised socket compatibility thru kittson as a reason, what happened to that promise.

7) Are they still planning to have two versions of kittson the first one handicapped to pretend there are two more chips?

to-da-loo

Intel to slip future Xeon E7s, Itaniums into common socket

Where do we get our money back for Tukwila systems?

We were promised

"Moving forward, Intel has said Tukwila will be socket-compatible with the next two generations of Itanium, known as Poulson and Kittson."

We were lied too and 2009 was not that long ago. Why do we find out on Poulson announce day that it is the last of the line in this box when the Oracle doc's said this is the exact case a year ago?

Furious at HP and looking at Pure.

To-da-loo

Oracle's mighty Sparc plug fries Fujitsu, bigs up new processor

more ammunition for getting rid of what is left of sparc install base

We moved all oracle databases to Power and quickly moving all applications to either x86/linux or power?

Happy 20th Birthday, IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad

Re: The Thinkpad Legacy..

Yipes, never heard of it being called the C___-mouse. I guess that was only used around guys. We always called it the cats tongue since thats what it felt like.

I hear IBM still owns the trademark for thinkpad which is why Lenovo has "ideapad" so they dont have to pay the royalty for the use of "thinkpad"

toodaloo

Oracle nudges Sparc T5s back out to 2013

Re: It's plenty clear. - Oracle Lies

"Just double it" just because you double the cores does not mean you get double the performance. Maybe Larry is talking about the Oracle software licenses customers will have to pay and not chip performance.

How Fowler stands up on stage and says SPARC T is 2X every generation and Intel and IBM are only 20-30% is embarrassing. Intels Nahelem chip was clearly more like 3X and IBM's Power6 to Power7 was 5X.

Grant it the performance per thread was and pretty much still is horrible on the T chips but the chart is wrong.

If Oracle wants to actually show proof vs. false powerpoints they will release the MValues for their systems. IBM publishes rPerfs on all their systems. We use IBM's rPerfs to do capacity planning and decide on which models to purchase. SPARC is a trial required to find out what reality vs. marketing.

Fortuantely the sparc install base here is only refreshed on an exception basis, with a migration to x86/power as the rule.

Oracle fudges touts Sparc SuperCluster prowess

Re: SPARC, not Sparc !

We all call it SPANC since every processor out there has been SPANCing it for about 10 years.

WTF is... NFC

Re: It's not too bad

And I thought NFC for NO Friking Clue

IBM to debut Power7+ servers on October 3

Power7+ and accelerators

Will be interesting to see what they come out with. The + is taking a little longer than usual but the prior articles point to the introduction of accelerators which makes this far superior than just a die shrink.

Curious as to where Itanic Poulson is? There is usually at least a three month lag between Intel announcing a chip which people can't actually use and HP announcing systems which use the chip which people can actually buy.

In our shop the explosive data requirements are pushing the need for big systems as a way to stem the epidemic of intel boxes. AMD is no longer even considered especially since they said they are tired of competing with intel and want to move to mobile.

Todoloo

IBM: Last chance to load up on Power 6+

Re: Translation.....

Matt is a boob.

Personally I would never buy Power6 since Power7 has been out so long but I have heard some companies standardize on a box and want it for every store, branch, etc. Which I guess IBM is still selling power6, but at some point 99% of the customer switch over so its time to stop offering the old gear.

Now speaking of Itanium. HP should still be selling Montecito cause Tukwila cores are only 15% higher in performance than Montecito cores and Oracle charges 2X the price. Ouch.

Oracle hurls Sparc T5 gladiators into big-iron arena

Re: @Bruyant - POWER & SPARC Comparison

Keb,

are you still employed? Who wants to pay someone a salary who has their head in the sand.

Other architectures don't droll over zfs and dtrace, they just implemented similar technology years ago.

When will T chips have dynamic add/remove cpu, add/remove memory and not require thread pinning?

You would think the Power5 chip technology would have been copied years ago.

I could go on but get with the program, update your knowledge and join the 21st century.

Larry is not your friend and only cares about the sparc maintenance cash cow. Try to say something innovative about sparc that is not 5-10 years old and is no longer innovative in the last 2-5.

glueless one hop scalability to 8 sockets means....... dont have a glue chip and crap why do we have to make a hop to get to 8 sockets. failue and double fail

hugs and kisses

xx0x0x00x0x0

Curiosity needs OS upgrade before getting down to science

Power Processors

I hear Power processors have 100% marketshare on Mars. LOL

Am I the only one that keeps looking for the little green man to peek around the camera?

Cheers.

bootnote: Maybe now that Oracle must "support" itanium it might have a chance to grow out of this world.

Judge: Oracle must remain on Itanic

Itanium is dead and Oracle is Evil

While HP customers may look at this as positive and redemption for buying Itanium gear, I doubt any software from Oracle will be coming out in a timely fashion. Oracle will delay releases and will put resources on the platform which correspond to the revenue. Since HP-UX is decreasing in revenue for them big time I think they might put 10 people on it. I find it interesting that they started to support IBM's mainframe at the same time they dumped Itanium. Ironic for those Itanic Idealists. Well I am glad HP won, cause it means they wont be as bold to drop support for everything but exa-crap and exa-expensive.

Oracle will be the next CA. Every CIO is starting to say i hate that company and how do we get off their products.

Wish you were here? NASA rover beams postcard from Mars

is it a power processer in that thing

I heard once it was an IBM power chip. Any truth to that?

IBM trims Flex System prices

Sounds like they are getting more flexible

Everything we have seen from Oracle just gets more expensive :-)

HP asks court to force Oracle to obey Itanium contract

There is no contract, plan and simple

Oracle is evil

HP is working the pity card which does not work in the real world

Intel and IBM seem to be the winners. Intel I am sure is saying thank you Oracle for helping speed up the demise of this loser.

What should Oracle do with Sun

Sun hardware is crap being falsely sold at zero discount

We laugh at Oracle when they try to sell us any type of hardware. I was out for drinks with an Oracle rep and he was complaining how when they do sell hardware it gets bundled with the software. The software has to be discounted behind the scenes so that hardware gets sold at zero discount. The numbers you are seeing from oracle is inflated by playing with discounts and bundling show what is rightfully software revenue as hardware. Those hardware numbers should in reality be cut in half again.

All the technology (database/weblogic) sales reps and applications reps hate the hardware reps and cut them off and try to not allow them into their accounts.

Oracle pumps out Q4 financials in premature release: See? We're OK

Re: and Itanium is dead

Larry <> ethics

he is not God either.

unfortunately for the HP customers i am with the coward who believes itanium is dead.

HP-UX and Intanium "technology" will be moved to odyssey asap but no hp-ux, HP is trying to be vague to stop the stampede

HP taps Intel Atom for next-gen Moonshot hyperscale servers

reminds me of Sun's "Gemini"

The chip never made it to market because the performance was intriguingly tremendously horrible.

Microsoft corrects itself: 'We expect fewer people to use Windows 8'

Re: restatement

Windows 8 = Windows Vista

No one will "upgrade" to that crap. Windows 7 is the next XP.

If you stay on windows and dont move to apple, android, linux, etc. you will be on 7 for the next 8 years.

Zuck weds self to lady friend in surprise ceremony

well at least she had a $4K gown

Looks like Mark bought his suit at K-Mart. I have an order in for FB stock. When it hits $13 I am buying a thousand shares.

iCloud blows away 15 million users for 90 minutes

Instagram on iphone with icloud

I bet apple can pull that off with a better solution and for only $50M vs. $1000M.

Instagram is facebooks "ebay/skype" "Sun/MySQL" moment

Oracle: HP settlement is 'not going to happen'

HP has no case

HP has a right to complain about Oracle's unconsumer behavior, but its perfectly legal. I have read the HP and Oracle court documents and there is nothing that supports HP's case.

Hard to believe this whole thing rest on HP getting a press release out of Oracle to say they will still work together. Nothing specific and certainly nothing about Itanium.

While Oracle seems mean what is worse is HP has been deceitful to their customers.

Facebook unfriends 19-inch data center racks

its time to kill blades and go back to nodes and chassis

From what I have seen IBM's Puresystem has the right strategy. Implementing 23inch racks would create a nightmare and does not really solve the problem. Blades are a bad form factor in todays compute environment. Blades came out before widespread x86 virtualization and the main promise was to cut the compute space in half.

Today it's about 30-1 virtualization compression ratios and having enough i/o to handle that capability which is better served by nodes vs. blades.