Saw this one this morning. From the article … Bidding war? I’ve said the M&A; is gonna get more interesting going forward.

A little preface. In the late 1800’s, Indiana had some legislation to consider. It boiled down to the “squaring of a circle” which effectively put a value on pi (??) that was not correct. Go read the history, its actually a little sad. The point of this is that reason eventually won out, and So what is it that has put a proverbial bee in my proverbial bonnet? A software group wants to effectively change the definition of UTC (a time standard) so as not to cause software to break, rather than, I dunno, fixing the software?

Alrighty … looks like there is additional information. Sun changed the license in 2009 for a 120 user test period, all Oracle did was change this to 60 day, and firmed up some of the rest of the language. There is a debate running on the mailing list, which, while some are (erroneously) claiming that its FUD, we see now, in all its glory, the issue of incompatible licenses. SGE/OGE is covered under something called SISSL.

I took friday off of work (sort of), and we drove up to Traverse City for the White Tigers tournament. Kudos to them for putting on a nice event. My daughter participated in 2 events, weapons and hand kata, and I did 3 as I also did kumite (sparring). Between the two of us, we brought home 4 trophies … 1 first (kata), 2 second (sparring and weapons), and 1 third (weapons).

SGE, aka, Sun Grid Engine, is the latest bit of HPC collateral damage in the Oracle digestion of Sun. This is not to say its going away, Dan Templeton has a nice post on his site indicating that they have a roadmap and a future. Its just that it is no longer open source. You can’t use it for more than 90 days w/o a paid license from Oracle. Whoops. This said, the GE community is stepping up to do something about this, though my concern is that Oracle could lean on them a little.

that is, what business are you in? Sounds strange … doesn’t it. This comes up from some recent experience with customers who are paying very late. Thinking this through, I am reminded of one of my favorite local restaurants, with a little aphorism on its wall. It reads This goes to the fundamental truth about your business and your competencies. We aren’t a lender of capital. I think its time we stopped any pretense at it.

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3PAR isn’t technically high performance storage. They are more of a competitor to EMC and HDS. Specifically in the array arena. This arena is a large one, though arrays are losing favor as compared to clustered storage systems (IDCs view, and I think StorageMojo’s as well). The article notes the price at $1.15B USD. It suggests Dell is focusing upon the integrated stack worldview, and thinks a switch vendor will be next.

Another customer, been bugging them about this for a while. Get a backup of your data. Don’t presume that RAID means you can’t back it up. Then they encounter an issue. So … work with me on this. What is the cost of making 1 copy for cold storage somewhere? Cost in time and in hardware for storage. Then compare to that, what is the cost of recreating the lost data should something break?

A good article on job creation and innovation at techcrunch. The author makes many points I have made in the past myself. His closing paragraph is dead on. Yes. Exactly. Please, by all means, read it all.