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“We looked at the efforts of the major car companies … to make an electric vehicle over the past 40 years and my conclusion was that they were made by people who didn’t really like to drive.”
Or maybe people who didn’t really like to spend $100K on a 2-seater
CIM-OS : Platform for Storage System Management
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CRN | IDC, Storage, Software, Revenue | IDC: EMC, Symantec, HP All Show Storage Software Slides
…HP is also starting to follow its recent storage hardware recovery with a recovery in software sales, and has been putting more feet in the street to integrate software from AppIQ, which it acquired about a year ago…
For the record: the acquisition was announced September 19 2005.
Techworld.com – Fibre Channel SANs: Final Days?
Practical SMI-s products are arriving courtesy of AppIQ and the associated Aperi competition
Byte and Switch – Signiant Appoints Exec – Storage Networking News Wire
BURLINGTON, Mass. — Signiant, the leader in distributed data management, today announced that Dave Lemont has been appointed vice chairman of the company’s board of directors. Previous to this appointment, Lemont served on Signiant’s advisory board since March 2006.
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The systems management area, with Aperi, affects storage. Why is IBM doing this? Why is IBM trying to get rid of added value in the storage system management area? The thinking is that IBM benefits because its services arm, IBM Global services, will pick up projects that integrate Aperi and other open source ultra-commoditised software applications into large business projects. It denies sales to competitor products and, because those competitors don’t have world-class services operations, denies them services business too.
There is no threat that hardware could go open source; it’s software that’s the battlefield here. There is a looming problem for storage system software suppliers where an open source approach could work. Are you listening HP? It seems to me that IBM wants to destroy the added value represented by AppIQ and replace it with Aperi code instead.
My take on this:
One of the great things about modern Linuxes is that you get security updates, and other application updates, pushed to you via your update manager : all you have to do is accept the changes and sit back and watch the install. It’s just like Windows Update but without the spyware.
But of course every piece of silver has a cloudy lining. If you don’t choose when, and what, to update (and with this volume of updates, you don’t have time to research and choose), then you have lost control of the software running on your box (and so, really you’ve lost control of your box).
A recent automatic update to Gnome Terminal added the keyboard accelerator CTRL-A to have the function “New Terminal Window”. Who thought of this one I wonder? Presumably not somebody that used CTRL-A regularly – so if you use bash, or screen, your screwed. Of course you can turn off the accelerator (Edit->Keyboard Shortcuts…), but as I get older I find the arguments against running in a highly customized environment grow stronger, and so it takes about 100 instances of new terminal windows being created on my screen when I’m trying to go back to the start of the line in the shell, before I’m ready to go and make the necessary customization.
Ok. I’ve done it now. I’ll shut up.
Tesla Roadster unveiled in Santa Monica – AutoblogGreen ***
Tesla Motors unveiled their uber-chic Roadster, a supercharged electric vehicle that looks, feels and drives like many other high-end sports cars Wednesday night. The main difference is the noise. Powered by a 3-phase, 4-pole AC induction motor, the Roadster can go 130 mph and does 0-60 in about 4 seconds, all completely silent.
Some of the more interesting factlets:
This is one of the sad results of living in the wrong country for too many years, and never really paying attention to anything before that anyway. I honestly thought Dizzy was a song by Bob The Builder. I never knew Vic Reeves did it first.
Let alone Boney M or Tommy Roe.
I don’t know why it should be; when I first boot up BANANA, the debian box, and try to access a windows share via autofs, I get completely incorrect results.
phil@banana:~$ ls /smb/turnip/RADIO4/bin APPIQ DVDISO ITUNES-XML PHOTO RADIO4 SharedDocs DATA ITUNES phil-Desktop print RADIO4-MP3 temp
But If I restart the automount service, things sometimes go fine thereafter.
I can see a session with strace in my future, unless google gets me there first.