Billing for Clouds
When considering the some of the issues related to building private clouds, the “Usage to Billing” problem was raised and I was reminded of Emlyn Pagden’s Blueprint, “The Utility Model PII” 2003. I had...
View ArticleYou can’t do this without “amberroad”
This post starts as a puff for Sun’s Storage Solution and segues to a crack at Digg. Glenn Brunnette pointed this Youtube Video out to me, with Brendan Gregg shouting at a disk unit. which struck me as...
View ArticleAbout the Fishworks appliance
On my original sun/oracle blog, I wrote a piece about installing Sun’s Storage Server image on a VMware host, in this case, my Laptop. The links and technology are now no longer relevant so I have...
View ArticleBarcelona
I travelled to Barcelona with Mrs L. and on my return went up to London and travelled by Tube to deliver a presentation to Kable’s “Open Source in the Public Sector”, which reminded me of the weekend...
View ArticleAre liberal licenses a better future proofing
A couple of days after the Kable Open Source conference, I looked up Gianugo Rabellino’s blog and read his then most recent blog article, “Of Oracle, Sun and Open Development” about the impact of...
View ArticleOracle & Sun & the European Single Market
A lot of people have been busy commenting on the EU’s investigation into the competitive dynamics of Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun, so I thought I’d join in. I no longer work for any of the...
View ArticleOracle, Sun, MySQL and Monopoly
Monty Widenius has issued a manifesto asking that open sourcers and MySQL users to write to the EU to let them know their views on Oracle’s potential ownership of the MySQL copyright. He of course...
View ArticleSoftware Migration
I had reason to revist some of the thinking behind my book on Software Migration, the key lesson of which is that the drivers and hence the tactics for Software migrations vary. I worked with...
View ArticleCommoditisation killed Sun Microsystems
Eric Raymond, wrote a short article on his blog, “Commoditization, not open source, killed Sun Microsystems”, which I commented on. This blog article says a little bit more than I felt I had room for...
View ArticleSunset, finally?
Simon Phipps comments on Oracle’s decision to close down the SPARC and Solaris business units. He was close to the politics of Sun’s “Dash to Open” in the mid noughties. My feeling is that Sun had...
View ArticleGreen and Open, here to stay
I attended a meeting of Sun’s European public policy team, where we discussed a number of things, including Sun’s critical public policy initiatives, open source and green computing. At the time, I...
View ArticleLaptop Diary XI
Originally entitled “Goodbye to dial boot” and stating that, a month and a half ago, Sun & Innotek, the authors of Virtual Box, an open source desktop virtualisation solution announced that Sun was...
View ArticleVirtualising Sun Cluster, by Mike Ramchand
Mike Ramchand has published a blog article about deploying a clustered pair of virtual box containers on a Solaris host. I am rather impressed. ooOOOoo Originally posted on my sun/oracle blog, reposted...
View ArticleAnd on to Budapest
Just back from Budapest where I attended a training event for Sun’s EMEA, Government, Education and Healthcare team. My work on NESSI has opened my eyes to the tremendous innovation occurring in parts...
View ArticleBeyond Concalls
I have been looking at ways of making virtual meetings easier, more effective and fun. As part of that I have looked again at secondlife, and one of my new correspondents pointed me at “The future is...
View ArticleSun M9000, the fastest SAP platform
Back in Brussels for a NESSI meeting, the SAP delegate is new and points me to Sun’s M9000 SAP Benchmark results which puts Sun at No. 1 again, although for how long who knows. There’s no doubt that...
View ArticleTalking about Cloud Computing
The current technical state of systems, storage and networking and specifically the cost of broad band networking has created a tipping point. Over the last 10 years, organisations and people have been...
View ArticleWhat’s Larry up to?
Larry Ellison, interviewed by Ed Zander about Sun, Oracle, the future and the Americas cup. This took place at a Churchill Club event on 21st September. Forbes have written it up, as Larry Ellison’s...
View ArticleFree Software in Europe please
It’s an exciting day with respect to the Oracle/Sun acquisition and the EU investigation. Eblen Mogden, on his blog represents his evidence, which says better than I can, why forcing Oracle to de-merge...
View ArticleLooking back about Data Centre location
I just came across some writing I did while working at Sun Microsystems; they/we were considering building a cloud platform in Europe and I was part of the team evaluating the potential location. (This...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....