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Can we call hardware/software integration a trend?

In quotable on 31 January 2010 tagged hardware, software development with no comments

Ted Leung points out some parallels between the iPad and Oracle’s new strategy integrating Sun’s hardware:

I spent most of yesterday watching the Oracle/Sun strategy webcast, and a major theme was the way that Oracle plans to tightly integrate Sun’s hardware, and to optimize the entire hardware and software stack. The Oracle Exadata database machine was repeatedly touted as an example of this kind of integration. If the benchmarks and early customer experiences are indicative, this integration has paid off handsomely, as it has also with the Sun Storage 7000.

And the bottom line:

Many of us in the “open” world decry vertical integration because it is almost inevitably closed, but the kind of engineering virtuosity that is on display does impress.

Links from March 1st

In Commentary on 3 March 2009 tagged books, drupal, economics, hardware, links, music, religion with no comments

• Dries Buytaert: Drupal sites. A big list of Drupal sites.
• Hivelogic: Review: The NewerTech Voyager Q. Docking station that lets you use internal hard drives as external hard drives. Seems like a great solution for certain backup strategies.
• Music Machinery: In search of the click track. Programmatically determining which drummers use click tracks and which don’t. Really, really interesting.
• David Plotz: What I learned from reading the entire Biblee. I was obsessed with his Blogging the Bible series, and I’m glad to see it’s now a book.
• TheMoneyIllusion: An open letter to Mr. Krugman. A really interesting alternative to the stimulus plan, suggesting novel monetary policy rather than fiscal policy. I have no idea whether this would work, but it’s an interesting idea.

Data recovered from hard drive on Columbia

In Commentary on 8 May 2008 tagged hardware, space with no comments

This story is astounding on many levels. Scientists recovered data from a Seagate hard drive found in the wreckage of the space shuttle Columbia. The hard drive was used to record data from a physics experiment conducted on the shuttle mission, and that data has now been processed and the results of the experiment have been published. Follow the link for a photo of the hard drive in the state in which it was found.

Links for April 3rd

In Commentary on 4 April 2008 tagged blogs, django, hardware, JavaScript, links, politics, software development, statistics, terrorism with no comments

• The Quick and the Ed. How class (or income bracket) affects college admissions. Usually it’s better to be a rich idiot than smart and poor.
• O’Reilly Radar: Review Board is good software. Software for managing code reviews.
• David Pogue: Can Blogger-Bashers Predict the Success of a Product? Unlikely. I find the gadget blogs to be nearly useless.
• FP Passport: Jihadi sympathizers lambast al Qaeda. al-Qaeda second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri is answering questions posed by viewers of his Web videos.
• Alex King: jQuery vs. Other Libraries. I think that jQuery is going to win because its learning curve is so gentle.