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Perhaps Sun Microsystems’ valuation of MySQL wasn’t too far off. Sun acquired the open-source database leader in January 2008 for a whopping $1 billion, a sum that many rational people thought was way too high.
Perhaps they were wrong; $1 billion is beginning to look like a bargain.
MySQL’s sales catching up with Red Hat’s | The Open Road - CNET News
SAN FRANCISCO — The global credit crisis may have caused the decline in consumer and business spending that is assaulting the giants of high tech. But as the dominant technology companies try to emerge from this slump, they may find themselves blaming people like David Title just as much as they blame Wall Street.
Mr. Title, a 35-year-old new-media manager at a film production company in New York, has dropped his cable subscription and moved to watching most of his television online — free. While shopping for a new laptop for his girlfriend recently, he sidestepped more expensive full-featured computers and picked a bare-bones, $200 Asus EeePC laptop, also known as a netbook.
“We’ve reached one of those moments in tech history when there are low-priced and free alternatives that are both user-friendly and reliable enough to make the switch,” Mr. Title said. “Then there’s the extra bonus of saving some cash.”
$200 Laptops Break a Business Model - NYTimes.com
THEY’RE either hapless pests or the very people capable of overthrowing Windows. Take your pick.
In December, hundreds of these controversial software developers gathered for one week at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. They came from all over the world, sporting many of the usual signs of software mercenaries: jeans, ponytails, unruly facial hair and bloodshot eyes.
But rather than preparing to code for the highest bidder, the developers were coordinating their largely volunteer effort to try to undermine Microsoft’s Windows operating system for PCs, which generated close to $17 billion in sales last year.
All the fuss at the meeting centered on something called Ubuntu and a man named Mark Shuttleworth, the charismatic 35-year-old billionaire from South Africa who functions as the spiritual and financial leader of this coding clan.
Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream - NYTimes.com
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There’s one aspect of the linux kernel and the GNU operating system and related tools in which it might be lacking behind, specially with kernel 2.4 series. I’m talking about I/O accounting or how to know what’s going on with the hard disc or other devices which are used to write and read data.
The thing is that linux provides you with a few tools with which you can tell what’s going on with the box and its set of discs. Say vmstat provides you with a lot of information and various other files scattered in the /proc filesystem. But that information only tells us about the system globally, so it’s good for diagnosing if a high load on a box is due to some process chewing CPU cycles away or because of the hard disc being hammered and being painfully slow. But what about if you want to know what exactly is going on, which process or processes are responsible for the situation, how do you know? The answer is that Linux doesn’t provide you with tools for that, as far as I know (If you know of any, please leave a comment). There’s no such thing as a top utility for process I/O accounting. The situation is better in Linux 2.6 provided you activate the taskstats accounting module with which you can query information about the processes. The user-space utilities are somewhat scarce, but at least there’s something with which you can start playing.
Not really a blog » Blog Archive » Tricks to diagnose processes blocked on strong I/O in linux
Martin Wirblat writes …
If you want to use or test Linux together with Windows without the need to resize a partition and install a dual boot system, this may be the way to go. I found that having a “virtual machine” or an “appliance” running in VMware in a window of the host operating system is not only good for having a look at a Linux distribution, no it is more, it makes sense to use this tandem for daily work.
Debian Etch VMware Appliance with VMware Tools