Evolution of the Species

ping Sun is assigning their 1,600 OS-related patents to the CDDL licensees that allows users to operate in a safe haven environment...sans SCO, adding open source patent indemnification with the introduction of OpenSolaris. Impressive.

pong Most of the market is still trying to fathom what happened to Intel vis-à-vis AMD and where IBM is headed with the 64-bit PowerPC offerings that recently slammed the TPC-C competition. For big iron boxes some smart money is headed that way (AMD & IBM) and there is alot of it. And, since we are talking about CELL again, did anyone else notice Sony's CEO on the stage with Jobs at Macworld?

ping Network and sysadmins swear by or at least acknowledge the robustness of Solaris. The operating system will gain popularity in being detached from SPARC.

Jonathan Schwartz has sent another missive-missle downrange -- http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20050121#an_open_letter_to_sam1o

He is clearly communicating to a broader audience. He is right to do so.

We learn that evolution occurs in three ways: the strong get stronger, the weak die, and once in a while for no particularly explainable reason, mutation occurs. We think we are headed into a new generation of “mutants” as the computing, entertainment, information and communication industries really do finally collide (convergence is passé, we are talking about major events here!).

Raquel and Bill

We have added a Counter! Watch out Maureen Dowd. We'll be...

CEL·Lu·lite n. - A fatty deposit in the brain caused by reckless speculation associated with US Patent # 6,809,734. Example in use by a common Celluludite: "IBM is selling their PC business because they are going to focus on CELL. The foundation of CELL is PowerPC. This is the right time to get in the game. POWER is the future of computing."

Discussion.

"CELL" is three things: CPU, packaging of data AND app and the way it is moved across the network.