November
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The best manager is
Steve Jobs who discovered the most important
character in computer business - i.
The good old Mac with good old MacOS is the hit of the season. But
problems with Rhapsody and questions on MacOS X remains. Maybe
iRhapsody will work better?
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The exciting conspiracy theory fueled by internal
Microsoft's memos -
Halloween I,
II and III.
What MS will do to fight against the threat: nourish the
"Noosphere" of carefully selected former OSS people together with
the horde of Visual Basic developers. Develop extremely tough protocols
that nobody can understand and protect them by numerous copyrights.
Back to mainframes?
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| The portrait of Dorian Gray is what may happens with our next nominee Bill Gates. This year software battles come from dark labs to the judgment of public. In courtroom old friends plays "Another one bites the dust". If you were mentioned in Forbes less than 3 times this year you are loser. Yours tomorrow sales depends on what you said in '95. And tell me why Tux the Penguin is more popular than BSD Devil? It's definitely not thanks to the technical superiority, maybe it's because he smiles more friendly? |
Transmeta won the
The Rumor of the month at the second time!
The foundation
of Paul Allen patented the technology that makes clear that it design
the processor been able to emulate most other instruction sets in a
extremely effective way as well as detecting hardware problems on the fly.
PowerPC, i86 and Java are here. The candidate to
manufacture it with its copper technology is IBM. Latest SMP exercises of
Torvalds in his Linux kernel shows us that parallel execution is here as
well. "Write everywhere, run here" mantra?
P.S. The latest news - next year Intel invests 1 billion into Merced.
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With beating crockery starts The big divorce of
beloved couple Wintel. "Prima donna" invested
into RedHat and Be after not so fidel partner made some freaks on not-
Intel platforms. The love should not be forced. And the key question:
what OS to run on Merced? Latest news: Intel made WinCE a knock-down by announcing patnership with Neon on set-top boxes, powered by Pentium and a POSIX compatible real-time OS. Which one - is not clear yet. And that anonimous joins my Embedded contest. | |||||
| The Cinderella's broom is for Hewlett-Packard. Many years ago, in poor hamlet... HP engineers invented powerful EPIC instruction set. But pragmatically analyzing the pockets, HP went to powerful king Intel for support. And they agreed that the king will control the design and manufacturing. But later HP realized that Intel sacrificed all the power of new CPU for the support of old i86 instruction set in the core. Even on native instruction set Merced will be slower than Alpha, but worse, good old Windows NT will be 4 times slower than any 64 bit Unix on the same hardware. It seems that Intel didn't have a choice. Or it did? | |||||
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The winner of the month is
Java after the court ordered
Microsoft to comply with Sun's compatibility test suite.
So Java full steam ahead! That's in few times in software business
that consumers are likely to benefit from the technology more than its
creator. What's next? P.S."The Register" predicts that if the affirmation of Microsoft-polluted features in VJ++ will take a mouse click... than denial will require two clicks | |||||
| The joke of the month from Larry Ellison. The nominee is sure Larry Ellison. He promised a million dollars for publishing Microsoft SQLServer 7 benchmark. It's amusing, SQLServer license prohibits from measuring its speed. The only benchmark maybe published by Microsoft, I guess measured on 8-Xeon server, overclocked triple and cooled by a liquid helium. Wanna a million? | |||||
| The new monster is born. The semi-merger deal between Netscape, AOL and Sun creates the biggest and the most powerful computer company in the industry. That's the only cartel that provides the complete hardware and software solution from high-end enterprise to the end user. What IBM and Oracle are planning to do with that? Is that the end of the "Noise" coalition? And the key question: what platform housewives will use next year to browse kitchen recipes? | |||||
