Posts by Matt Bryant

RE: Uhmmm

Well, considering the majority of the old Oracle reps don't have a clue about hardware, and the few ex-Sun ones that made it alive into Oracle only seem to have done so because they didn't have anywhere else to run to.....

Ho-hum!

I warned a while back that this was the last thing I wanted Oracle to do - break their DB product. I don't see how Larry thiks this will benefit Oracle, if there's anything we couldn't move onto Xeon then it would be going to Power, not SPARC in any form. This does remind me of the kerfuffle around Slowaris x86, where Snoreacle said they were dropping hp's license to support Slowaris on ProLiant, then a few weeks late it was all back on when hp stumped up a larger license fee. Maybe this is just another extortion attempt by Larry, but it just makes him look rather desperate if he thinks this is the only way he can sell SPARC servers!

You can see why he didn't try it with IBM - they have DB2. Maybe it's time for hp to buy a database company. Of course, the fun starts if Leo goes and buys SAP and a database company, then drops SAP support for Oracle, then I'd really have a ton of migrating work to do! Either way, I expect I'm going to have a busy year trying out the options. As usual, the last person Larry thinks about is the customer.

RE: Moo?

".......the only platform HPUX ships on is Itanium-based Integrity....." Try a little reading, there's both OpenVMS and NonStop running on Integrity, and both are often used with Oracle.

RE: Walpole Grumpboy, did you Ever spend time in solitary confinement?

"......"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."....." Oh dear, if only you had thought to follow your own advice! Your diatribe is just an astonishing deluge of paranoid delusions and fashionable buzzphrases, it's like abridged version of The Dummy's Guide to Leftism, only without any intelligent bits left in. Armband? You might as well have goose-stepped round the room waving your copy of The April Theses! Please, just explain what "incriminating evidence" has Manning provided? His leaks were, at most, embarrassing for the US Government. Please try putting one foot back in reality before considering your next post. Then again, you do provide great, if unintentional, humour!

RE: "Criminal" in these cases ...

"... is what public opinion says it is......" Well, actually it's that darn thing called "the law" which makes that decision. If the public opinion is strong enough then the public votes in different politicians and the law gets changed. Fact is, Anonyputz and people like you are so far in the minority there's more chance of Bin Laden getting elected to the Senate than anyone that shares your blinkered views.

".......It is not vigilante....." No, it's a criminal act. Anonyputz are just minor crims that like to think they're "big'n'bad" from the safety of their parents' basements.

"......it is revolution that is long overdue...." Slight problem - revolutions without popular support are just criminal acts like riots. Face facts - you and your friends are the minority, you have no chance of swinging the general public behind you, and all you are doing is playing at revolutionary because there's nothing on TV to keep you interested. TBH, you all need to go out and get laid. You'll probably need a lot of pimple cream first, though.

RE: No exorcise?

"......I bet if he confessed his treatment would change a lot...." You really should try keeping up with the news, rather than just doin the reflexive ranting thing. Manning has already admitted his part in the proceedings, what is probably making him suicicdal is the realisation that he has screwed up his life for very little gain, having been led up the garden path by Assnut.

RE: soundly!

"they have god on their side....." Last time I checked I saw that the US was a secular society with many religions. Indeed, the last time I went there on business I was workig with two American Hindus, a Muslim emigre from Bangalore, a Japanese-Amercian Christian, and several ordinary Americans with no propensity for Bible-thumping or forcing their views on anyone. We all got along fine and non-one killed anyone or dissed anyone else's religion, but then we're probably just a lot more grown up than you.

".....make em wear some kind of symbol on the clothes....." I find the fashionably morally outraged are usually quite easy to spot, both by the narrow selection of like-minded sheeple they herd around with, and their propensity for shrieking without thinking. No symbol needed.

"......make em live in strictly controlled parts of town...." We already do, they're called NUS bars. If they graduate and gain employment, they can usually be found in winebars or street cafes, desperately trying to be hip.

"....having been a lifelong athiest...." Really? You seem to imply that all religious people are suckers, and yet you come across as such a convert to the Church of St Julian it's hard not to laugh at your self-delusion!

RE: Silly really....

".....just so happens the Sparc Super duper cluster thingy me bobby happens to be the quickest at the moment....." I think you'll find what made it "the quickest" was the unrealistic database design used, plus the even more unrealistic and over-sized, flash-based SAN in the background doing all the real work. In real World tests, using real enterprise datasets in real environments, SPARC in any form trails in well behind Itanium or Power.

RE: The More You Know

".....what in the fucking hell is a Fosjay..." Fosjay = Follower Of Saint Julian. I was trying to work "blind" into the acronymn somewhere to convey the correct level of self-delusion on the part of the followers, but "Fosbeejays" sounded like a Swdish sex act, and the delightful Ms Bee was already too unamused at Fosjay to risk it.

"....when absolutely nobody aside from yourself knows what the shit it actually means...." It was explained in a previous thread regarding the obtuse Mr Assange and his quest for supreme, paranoid egocentricity, but I assume you don't bother to read the posts of "non-believers" and just switch straight to rant mode, no?

"....some sort of sublime work of concise character assassination...." Why is it the Fosjays automatically assume anyone that doesn't keep their Faith is out to "get" Assnut in some way? You really do seem incapable of perceiving that others do not share your unquestioning support for Assnut without attributing it to some great, dark conspiracy. I suggest you read up on paranoid delusions.

"...You can't simply witlessly label your opponents as hippies or punks....." Since when did I call you lot either? I'm just enjoying poking fun at you lot after you spent so long telling us Assnut was The Messiah, only now it is very obvious to all that he has feet of clay. If you don't like it, don't be so sanctimonious in future until you're sure you know all the facts, rather than what someone (with an agenda of their own) has spoonfed you. Live and learn!

/Enjoy!

RE: No one was looking

If you are so convinced Assnut has no case to answer, then surely you should be encouraging him to depart to Sweden immediatley and stop wasting more UK taxpayers' money. After all, his good name is in question (nearly fell off my chair laughing as I typed that one!). Oh, or is it that you secretly realise that he does have a serious case to answer in Sweden, and even if you believe the two women in question connived to set him up, or that you don't think (as a non-Swede) that the crime he is charged with is serious enough to require his imprisonment, you worry that a Swedish court might find the ladys' story more believable than Assnut's?

RE: As has been pointed out before...

And as has obviously escaped the narrow attention span of you Fosjays, in reality St Jules is just an ordinary citizen, and when ordinary citizens get a request to go in for questioning they don't send the coppers out to them, they have to go to the copshop. Assnut skipped the country and then refused to return for questioning, hence the request for his arrest and extradition. The little twit could have saved a lot of time (and taxpayers' money) if he'd just gone back when politely asked to. But then that wouldn't have gotten him his fifteen minutes in the spotlight and the fawning attention of the easily deluded. Hopefully, when his appeal is rejected, the little idiot can go do his self-adulation at Sweden's expense.

RE: It's against the Geneva convention!

Actually, no, the Geneva Convention does not cover electrical weapons on the battlefield. I can't burn you with phosphorous because that's just too nasty, but I can fry you with mains all day long, that's quite fine. Of course, should I be trying to extract info by torture, that's different, but just out-right frying you is perfectly acceptable. Ain't the World of political niceties a funny place!

RE: yes but one more thing....

The problem is not the "technical difficulties" it is the difficulties derived from constant changes in requirements that are in turn due to changes in the situations our troops face and the tech coming into vogue. Five years ago the ability to find roadside bombs from the air was secondary to the ability to find Johnny Taleban running around the hills. Now we're a lot more concerned with the bombs, so we need different kit. I remember discussing the whole drones idea six years back with a guy from Lockheed Martin and he said the UK should have released a spec around a desired payload weight and volume, and then thought up different pallets of sensors to fit inside those measures after the basic drone was built. That would have made the whole drone more flexible fro re-use and development. As it is, we seem to be asking Thales to tailor the Watchkeeper to one set of sensors, then changing the sensors and starting the tailoring job all over again. As someone once said about the Sherman, good enough and available in numbers is a lot better than perfect but not here.

RE: Unarmed?

"What's that hanging hook doing there then?....." It's to disperse any static charge that may have built-up on the drone in flight. Oh, were you making an attempt at humour? If I were the Taleban I'd be a lot more worried about the 155 mil shells that are likley to follow the arrival of a Watchkeeper.

RE: "dump it because"

"Intel should dump it because if they were to invest the same money in their AMD64 clone instead...." And since when have Intel been short of a quid or two? I don't hear any funding issues regarding Intel teams working on Xeon, and cross-stream developments like the QPI work taken from the Itanium stream seems to have boosted Xeon as well, so I'm confused as to why you think Intel would gain by killing Itanium. Intel wants a chunk of the installed SPARC-Slowaris base left high-and-dry by the Sunset, and developing Itanium and Xeon gives them two bites of the apple and at the same time keeps the pressure on IBM's Power.

".....HP should dump it because if they were to invest the same money in printer ink or Proliant Servers instead...." Again, where do you see any shortage of investment? In fact, hp has climbed to being the number one IT company by pursuing a diverse portfolio, not just the most profitable. That diversity allows hp to shunt profits and cross-sell amongst different lines, meaning hp can usually take at least one deal from the table even if the prime deals have gone. Having a narrow portfolio is what killed Sun when that portfolio lost its value. Just think for a second what might have been if Sun had bought Lexmark and NetApp when they were cheap and Sun was flushed with cash, they would have had a fallback for when their server range was in trouble.

RE: VMS

"A lot of Intel's fab plants used to have VMS systems....." A little birdie tells me that AMD also have hp Superdomes running their fabs! If it's true then that's real irony!

RE: Finally a decent Itanium chip

".....It will still not be competitive with Power7...." Why? Simply becuase you say so? Please, indulge us with some of the technical and analytical wizardry that led you to that conclusion, otherwise I'll have to conclude it was just the inner Troll talking.

"......The problem with socket compatibility is HP is stuck with still only having 5 QPI links....The current chips are starved for bandwidth......" Que? Sorry, but I'm enjoying lots of bandwidth niceness with my Tukzilla BL870c i2s, I'm getting about four times the application performance compared to an old Superdome partition (I suspect the bottleneck is the SAN, not the blades). <Sniff, sniff> I smell Troll manure....

".....HP's Integrity Virtual machine is a dog...." Again, no evidence to back up that assertion, would you care to explain what areas you think IVM is lacking in? Strange that's your also working through the IBM FUD list. We had the IBM Elmers in not too long ago (worringly for hp, their "predictions" for Poulsen hardware were spot on, there seems to be a bit of a leak somewhere!). They sang their new FUD song as follows - "Power is better 'cos we say so, QPI has "limitations", IVM is poo, have you heard about the new Oracle pricing?" TBH, it was hard not to fall asleep, I was hoping they'd come up with a new act for Poulsen rather than a vague rehash of the Tukwila FUD. Maybe you should help them along, you all seem to need new material.

/<Yawn>

RE: bah

Muahahahahahahaaaa!

'Nuff said. Hey, I have to do some work every now and again!

RE: I agree

".....CEO's getting fired....." I've often wondered if hp's exec hiring scheme wasn't an attempt to branch out into comedy! Apatheticker hasn't really dismissed that belief yet.

RE: You call that a sense of humour? Seriously?

"....Right barrel of laughs you are...." Well, humour is subjective and also relative to your emotional state, and if you're overwhelmed with the Sunshine it's not surprising you're feeling a bit sensitive after the Sunset.

".....don't you work for some company called Ingram...." LOL, guess again! According to the posters on these forums alone, I work for hp and/or IBM, Oracle(!), Microsoft, RIM, BT, the Gubbermint, and the Greater London Authority! I've also been accused several times of being a Yank! Phew, I'm tired out by all that job-hopping, let alone the trans-Atlantic flights! I can't actually find a company called Ingram in Reading (did you by chance mean Clifton Ingram Solicitors, not heard if they have an IT department?). Whilst it is fun to watch you Sunshiners doing your e-stalking, before you start sending hatemail to some poor so-and-so you found on Facebook, please remember I post under a psedonym because of droollers like you.

"....Red Hat too these days...." Ah, a Sunshiner that at least saw the writing on the wall, even if they're not happy to admit it. After all, if your Slowaris contracting was so busy you wouldn't have bothered with Red Hat, Debian (in the City?) and AIX.

"....In the banking sector, no one fecking use's it....." Well, seeing as I personally know that's not true (not wanting to breach anyone's NDAs, but a friend tells me there's also plenty of hp-ux in the highstreet banks), that just goes to show you probably don't work as much in the City as you claim.

So, we've exposed the limits of your experience, would you like to expose the limits of your market knowledge with some equally revealing insights into the possibilities of success for Oracle's proposed servers? How about a brief on how you think Oracle will manage to maintain customer interest between now and the launch of the TNG M-series, when the current M-series are hampered by outdated tech like DDR2 memory and 10K internal drives (the competition are enjoying DDR3 and 15Ks)?

/SP&L

RE: RE: Giving credit to Oracle (for its SPARC roadmap) where credit is due

Looks like Novatose has forgotten about the Sunset too! In case he's forgotten, he got the "Novatose" moniker for his continual hyping of the long-anticipated Rock server lines, even after it became obvious to the rest of us that Rock was a zombie just waiting for a mercy killing.

"....you spelled Solaris, and various other words incorrectly again....." As I have previously reminded you many times, the moniker "Slowaris" was given to Solaris by Sun's own customers due to our unhappiness with SPARC-Solaris's performance. Pretend all you like, that's a simple fact.

"....at least appear to be credible...." Given your previous and hilarious outbursts of Sunshine (e.g., "Rock will not be killed", "Sun is not up for sale"), I'm sure there is no way I can appear credible to such a self-certified Sunshiner! You carry on keeping The Faith, don't let that little old Sunset event or the loss of Prophet Ponytail deflect you, just don't expect the rest of us to suffer from such delusions.

"....It seems Oracle has released several refreshed several lines of their own servers since the Sun acquisition....." Hmmmm, you mentioned a spell-checker, ever think of using the grammar-checker? All Oracle have done is slap new badges on old Sun designs that were already available or already in the works. Oracle has released no server truly of Oracle's own making yet, and it looks like the next gen top-end servers are just going to be more badged Fudgeitso kit.

"....after dumping former HP boxes in some integrated system lines...." Well, Larry did inherit a whole stack of servers no-one wanted to buy, I'm not surprised he'd want to burn through that old Sun stock, especially after hp had done all the tricky engineering and integration for him. It obviously didn't register with you that hp shrugged and carried on being the leading server vendor, whilst Snoreacle is still third tier at best.

".......The Oracle T3 platform over doubles performance over Sun T2 platforms...." Just not in the way customers want. Stop talking the "throughput" drivel, that only matters to webserving, it's irrellevant to the single-threaded apps most customers want to run. A three-year old Xeon server can thrash a T3 server with real applications and real data.

".....suggesting otherwise logically suggests HP has no "top-end offering", because HP stopped making systems with Alpha processors...." Oh dear, just showing your lack of knowledge again! You forgot PA-RISC, which was caning UltraSPANKed for years before Sun finally went to SPARC64. It had already been agreed between Compaq and Intel that Itanium would replace Alpha before hp bought Compaq. Unlike Sun, Compaq and hp saw the fact that traditional RISC CPUs were reaching their design limits and both moved on before they destroyed themselves. Sun presisted with UltraSPARC, failed with Rock, stumbled with Niagara, and saw their company value crash from a 2000 peak market cap of $200bn to less than $4bn. If Oracle hadn't saved them (after IBM and hp both turned down the opportunity), then that would have been the end of SPARC right then. Even then, even Larry admitted his original intent was to buy just Sun's software business but he got stuck with the hardware failure as well.

".....The T4, which is already in the lab...." So, more unproven vapourware arguments. Hey, didn't the Sunshiners assure us Rock was "taped out" right up until it got killed? And if all T4 does is place itself "between the former CoolThreads systems and M systems" then I'm not impressed, it will be slower than current Power or Itanium and probably x64 with the apps us customers actually might want to run on it. It may be finally suitable for replacing the old UltarSPARC IIIi kit still out there on a like-for-like basis, but seeing as I can already consolidate old UltraSPARC onto Lintel blades, at a better than one-to-one ratio and for a lot less money, I'm just not impressed.

/SP&L

RE: Raves and religions

".....better raving through chemistry." And here's the bit where it all seemed just a bit silly to me - what does it say about your social life if you need a "mind-altering experience" to enjoy a rave or night out? Whilst I did have some hilarious stoodie experiences whilst drunk or due to my friends being drunk, I soon grew out of that and found the best times were when everyone was relatively sober and just having a good time. On the other hand, one of the scariest experiences was trying to help a girl that had "taken something" and was up the proverbial creek. I can understand the argument for legalisation if only on medical safety grounds (but the idea it will stamp out illegal pill producers and dealers is, IMHO, silly), I just don't see the need in the first place.