Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Business on Oct 7th, 2008
The Websphere Marketing team must be overjoyed to read the recent EDC report – “Application Servers 2008 Rankings” by Janel Garvin (it’s free but you need to register). The report is almost too good to be true for Big Blue – Not only does IBM win outright but it also kicks BEA / Oracle’s butt [...]
Bob McWhirter is coming back – have’t met him but I’ve heard good things about him. He’s going to be working on integration of AS 5 and Ruby – that’s going to be pretty neat. Read more on fnokd! JBoss Cache is now searchable – and JBC is turning into a bit of a family [...]
RHEL runs on the biggest baddest (and fastest) supercomputer (IBM’s Roadrunner) which uses the same Cell processor as the PS3. And you can also run RHEL on the PS3 – I’m sure there’s a rational and practical reason to run RHEL on a PS3 – I just can’t think what it is. The Hibernate lawsuit [...]