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• links for 2008-05-17

  Linux shop adds Solaris for performance boost Wow - "[...] it turned out that Solaris 10 had a throughput that was 50 times better." (tags: fedora linux solaris solaris10 sun t1000 t2000 ubuntu ) Open Source at Sun Microsystems, 2008 Gartner Analysis. Synopsis: Open source at Sun Microsystems is strong, and Gartner expects an increasing role for open source within its business strategies in coming years. (tags: analysis gartner opensource sun ) BigAdmin Feature Article: Using Kerberos to Authenticate Read More... Posted Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:31 AM from Superpatterns | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity, Microsoft, Linux, Windows, Ubuntu, Sun, solaris, Links, opensso, gartner, authentication, opensource, LDAP, xtech, ad, solaris10, infrastructure, t2000, bigadmin, fedora, kerberos, t1000, bbc, analysis

• Putting our money where our mouth is

  This makes total sense - and finally Sun gets a real database. I can think of at least 10 different major software products from Sun that would benefits enomously from switching from their respective current database platform to a single data store. I am really looking forward to having a single API and place to store structured data in Solaris and Java. Cool. It reminds me also of the phrase someone coined: "LAMP is for boys, MARS [1] is for men." tag: Sun , Solaris , MySQL [1] MySQL, Apache, Ruby, Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:18 AM from Web Services Contraptions | 1 Comments Filed under: General, Sun, solaris, MySQL

• Looks like Windows, smells like Windows, but it's Solaris

  Through Nico Williams a real interoperability story: Alan Wright reports that the Solaris team recently completed the Solaris kernel CIFS service. That's right: CIFS (i.e. Windows networking) is now on par with NFS and other kernel-level system services. To be able to achieve this goal, the Solaris folks had to create some really innovative pieces of technology: To allow Windows style SIDs in the process credentials, they are now allowing negative and ephemeral UIDs and GIDs. ZFS now supports all Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:29 PM from Web Services Contraptions | 0 Comments Filed under: Interoperability, solaris, cifs