3 blog reactions to http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_dot_in_2_0
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Sun buys MySQL
and is famous for having said they were "the Dot in Dot Com." MySQL is a database program that powers a huge number of well-known web sites. With this purchase, the CEO of Sun might be correct in bringing back a reworking of their catchphrase. As he put it "We're the Dot in [web] 2.0."
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The Dawn of the Microsystem
a proprietary architecture. On second thoughts, since they feel that the Internet market is a niche, the maker of industry standard platforms might not have come across the OpenSPARC website. Jokes apart, the UltraSPARC T1 based systems were the fastest ramping products in Sun's history, and that might be only the first step for Niagara-kind. Small wonder that when John Hennessy and David Patterson were putting together the fourth edition of the classic Computer Architecture : A Quantitative Approach