Archive for the ‘Sun’ Category

EIS-DVD, where are you?

Hope that’s just a temporal mess which will be successfully resolved soon. Frankly speaking, I could hardly imagine a Sun field engineer without EIS. The EIS team regrets that EIS-DVD 23FEB10 has been cancelled. This is due to purchase order approval changes for manufacturing and distribution as a result of the transfer of control to […]

Posted on March 5, 2010 at 12:54 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Sun

Are we going to say goodbye to Sun branded USP V/VM?

Just received it today: 2 March 2010 Dear Valued Partner, Due to the recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, there has been much speculation as to the effect the merger will have on the market, product offerings and partnerships. As you are aware, Hitachi Data Systems and Sun Microsystems have enjoyed a successful […]

Posted on March 3, 2010 at 12:12 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Sun

Sun – HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently

As you certainly know Sun Microsystems Co. doesn’t exist anylonger and now it’s just another part of our history. So it’s not a surprise to see that all requests to www.sun.com are now redirected to a new home place www.oracle.com Btw, I encourage you to watch Larry Ellison speaking about the future steps that Oracle […]

Posted on January 28, 2010 at 1:08 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Sun

Sun CEO’s swan-song

Another pep-talk from Jonathan Schwartz with a hidden message, rather hackneyed in my opinion, – “Beat IBM” – inside. Frankly, this passage left an unpleasant aftertaste.

Posted on January 26, 2010 at 10:28 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

Oracle + Sun strategy update webcast

This is a quick reminder not to miss an exceptionally intrigue live webcast presented by Oracle, during which all of us, those who do care about future of Sun’s innovative technologies, are supposed to learn today what tomorrow has in its pocket. Agenda 9:00 a.m. Safra Catz: Welcome and Opening Remarks Charles Phillips: Oracle + […]

Posted on January 26, 2010 at 5:18 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Green light for Oracle’s deal over Sun Microsystems

Hallelujah! The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of US hardware and software vendor Sun Microsystems Inc. by Oracle Corporation, a US enterprise software company. After an in-depth examination, launched in September 2009 (see IP/09/1271 ), the Commission concluded that the transaction would not significantly impede effective competition in […]

Posted on January 21, 2010 at 3:06 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Sun

Fibre Channel Concepts

If you’d like to fill some gaps in FC’s field then the following video course presented by Sun engineer could greatly assist in your study.

Posted on January 13, 2010 at 10:02 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

Save Oracle/Sun from Monty and alike.

Few days ago I received a humble entreaty from Monty Creator of MySQL to step in and save his child from dirty beast whose name is Oracle. I must confess, that whilst this stinky story had been evolving and surging up I tried to publicly keep silence (I do clear understand that my voice could […]

Posted on January 6, 2010 at 2:33 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Sun

Visualizing DTrace: Sun Storage 7000 Analytics

If for some reason you woke up today in a bad and sombre mood than just follow this link to skyrocket it for the rest of the day. More over you could kill to birds with one stone because apart from being very hilarious it’s a very educational presentation as well. Enjoy!

Posted on December 24, 2009 at 9:12 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

Another piece of paper to decorate a wall

Today I successfully passed Sun Certified System Administrator for Sun Cluster 3.2 certification exam and now awaiting for a new certificate to be delivered to my home address. Sweet…

Posted on December 17, 2009 at 2:59 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life, Sun