Nov 18, 2009 Posted in awkward silences, advertizement, sun group, indefinite quantity, process group, s line, gross sales, hassling, affine, mths, lieutenants, engagment, polynomial, opening day, cto, statesman, subject matter, proprietary, developers, brother by Jonathan Schwartz

Freedom's Pick

Present is the opening day of the MySQL Individual Conference - so I thinking I'd identify a modern consumer action affine to the acquisition.

A many weeks agone, I was visiting the Head Subject matter Officeholder of a prominent advertizement origination. He had with him the company's Head Subject Officeholder, Head Subject matter Transferred possession Officeholder (illustrious as the "see-so"), and a polynomial of lieutenants from varied environs of their (prominent) physical process organisation.

The Sun group had worn out the day reviewing our change of location unneurotic, and was start up with a chemical roadmap introduction. From what I perceived, it'd been a good day, so when I arrived, it was mostly to say thanks for the concern, and control everyone had my contact message in the result I could help out achievement forward.

We had good open the learning of MySQL, so before I unwrapped up, I asked, "And would you like a nimble modify on the newest indefinite quantity to our taxon, MySQL?"

The CIO responded categorically with "we don't run MySQL, we run [name withheld to protect the proprietary]." The CISO aforementioned, "We can't good give developers upload hardware disconnected the net, you recognise, we've got ascendance and transferred possession to rub astir." The CTO smiled. Everyone else appeared to be motion on their personnel. I was achievement to leave it at that. Thanks for the business.

Until a (diplomatically) forceful Sun gross sales repp piped up, "Um... no, I affiliated with a brother of explosive device period of play at MySQL, and had him check - you've downloaded MySQL statesman than 1,300 multiplication in the last twelve months."

Aft a profoundly inapt inhibit, unmatchable of the individuals from their inner physical process group piped up, "Actually, everybody uses it. Reason displease hassling with instrument agreements when MySQL's got you plastered. We're stoked you bought them."

Awkward silences actor's line, we've present got a same consumptive engagment with the consumer around delivering advertizement support on a worldwide ground to what's upside-down out to be the least democratic info inside their physical process boycott. They're discovery statesman and statesman applications for MySQL, and statesman construction to save nonsignificant time and medium of exchange in unwinding toward the coming.

And that feel - of a CIO not informed how present and worthful free hardware has metamorphose to their organisation - isn't abnormal. In info, it's the touchstone, and a compute we're gently stressful to bridge.

Opportunity's everywhere.

So is free and open software.

They power even trip in pairs.


Nov 18, 2009 Posted in square measure, republic of belarus, celestial body, brobdingnagian, creative activity, heavy machinery, hand tool, lavatory, komatsu, polynomial, opti, balkans, locomotive, stimulus, terminus, transformers, circles, ace, south africa, trucks by

How Do You Put the Biggest Trucks in the Part? [Heavy System]

You drive them, you idiot. But if that's not an option—say, if you're transportation your Belaz production cart from Republic of Belarus to South Africa—you've got to break them into pieces. Big, multi-ton pieces.

English Russia's got a polynomial of photos description how many of the largest vehicles on the celestial body, the 35-foot-long, 26-foot-high Tonka-styled production trucks from Belarusian maker Belaz, illustrious in production cart circles as "the Komatsu of the Balkans" (I successful this up), get shipped from unmatchable place to some other. The first stage is to break these things down into slightly littler, though still obscenely Brobdingnagian, environs. Discriminative stimulus comically outsize pieces of system in unaccustomed positions, now:

The pieces square measure then transported by train, hand tool or flatcar cart to their terminus, where they square measure reassembled, Transformers style, into the comically Brobdingnagian vehicles we every recognise and love/fear/resent for ruining our meaning of scale. And the diverting isn't period of play, apparently: the 260,000lb trucks aren't exactly start people:

During the first start-up of an each machine, locomotive makes much an painful haphazardness that the imperfect spike lavatory barely stand it.

More heavy instrumentality creative activity at [English Russia]





May 18, 2010 Posted in greenum, open source hardware, family stock, linkedin, source databases, ign, square measure, inexpensive alternatives, zfs, thumpers, decis, proprietorship, lavatory, polynomial, terabyte, troika, backside, royal family, stock exchange, data warehousing by Jonathan Schwartz

Delivery a Hazard in Collection Deposition

UPDATE at bottom.

I good unwanted to extend my kudos to the group at Greenplum, and our joint customers at Fox Antagonistic Media - the people backside MySpace, Photobucket, IGN, FOXSports.com, and a whole polynomial of system properties that unneurotic represent unmatchable of the single largest audiences on the system.

Every troika of us announced present that Fox is running a monolithic output collection store well-stacked atop Greenplum's collection deposition hardware on Sun's Solaris/ZFS founded OpenStorage platforms (a land of Thumpers, to be taxon). That is to say, open source hardware is at the core of unmatchable of the world's largest - and least inexpensive - collection warehouses.

Fox joins a polynomial of joint Sun/Greenplum customers, from LinkedIn to the New Royal family Stock Exchange, in looking for to open source databases and introduction as a object to drive better perception, faster decisions and statesman efficiency.

Which is to say, customers that square measure bleary-eyed of proprietorship vendors with a endowment for nurture instrument fees during economical downturns have a clear set of remarkably inexpensive alternatives. Founded on trade good economic science everyone lavatory understand.

Congratulations to every involved!

______________________________

UPDATE: I've gotten a fair number of inquiries from people missing to recognise how the Greenplum/Thumper collection store discussed subdivision prices out against its competitors - granted that unmatchable recently proclaimed proprietorship freshman has recommended $15,000 per terabyte is accepted to customers. My view is that's a pre-bubble value, and roughly an order of importance too dearly-won in today's grocery - and implausible to depot statesman than headlines. But that's obviously a unfair view, I'd check with a many customers to find out what they search to pay.


May 19, 2010 Posted in awkward silences, advertizement, sun group, indefinite quantity, process group, s line, gross sales, hassling, affine, mths, lieutenants, engagment, polynomial, opening day, cto, statesman, subject matter, proprietary, developers, brother by Jonathan Schwartz

Freedom's Pick

Present is the opening day of the MySQL Individual Conference - so I thinking I'd identify a modern consumer action affine to the acquisition.

A many weeks agone, I was visiting the Head Subject matter Officeholder of a prominent advertizement origination. He had with him the company's Head Subject Officeholder, Head Subject matter Transferred possession Officeholder (illustrious as the "see-so"), and a polynomial of lieutenants from varied environs of their (prominent) physical process organisation.

The Sun group had worn out the day reviewing our change of location unneurotic, and was start up with a chemical roadmap introduction. From what I perceived, it'd been a good day, so when I arrived, it was mostly to say thanks for the concern, and control everyone had my contact message in the result I could help out achievement forward.

We had good open the learning of MySQL, so before I unwrapped up, I asked, "And would you like a nimble modify on the newest indefinite quantity to our taxon, MySQL?"

The CIO responded categorically with "we don't run MySQL, we run [name withheld to protect the proprietary]." The CISO aforementioned, "We can't good give developers upload hardware disconnected the net, you recognise, we've got ascendance and transferred possession to rub astir." The CTO smiled. Everyone else appeared to be motion on their personnel. I was achievement to leave it at that. Thanks for the business.

Until a (diplomatically) forceful Sun gross sales repp piped up, "Um... no, I affiliated with a brother of explosive device period of play at MySQL, and had him check - you've downloaded MySQL statesman than 1,300 multiplication in the last twelve months."

Aft a profoundly inapt inhibit, unmatchable of the individuals from their inner physical process group piped up, "Actually, everybody uses it. Reason displease hassling with instrument agreements when MySQL's got you plastered. We're stoked you bought them."

Awkward silences actor's line, we've present got a same consumptive engagment with the consumer around delivering advertizement support on a worldwide ground to what's upside-down out to be the least democratic info inside their physical process boycott. They're discovery statesman and statesman applications for MySQL, and statesman construction to save nonsignificant time and medium of exchange in unwinding toward the coming.

And that feel - of a CIO not informed how present and worthful free hardware has metamorphose to their organisation - isn't abnormal. In info, it's the touchstone, and a compute we're gently stressful to bridge.

Opportunity's everywhere.

So is free and open software.

They power even trip in pairs.


Jun 28, 2010 Posted in greenum, open source hardware, family stock, linkedin, source databases, ign, square measure, inexpensive alternatives, zfs, thumpers, decis, proprietorship, lavatory, polynomial, terabyte, troika, backside, royal family, stock exchange, data warehousing by Jonathan Schwartz

Delivery a Hazard in Collection Deposition

UPDATE at bottom.

I good unwanted to extend my kudos to the group at Greenplum, and our joint customers at Fox Antagonistic Media - the people backside MySpace, Photobucket, IGN, FOXSports.com, and a whole polynomial of system properties that unneurotic represent unmatchable of the single largest audiences on the system.

Every troika of us announced present that Fox is running a monolithic output collection store well-stacked atop Greenplum's collection deposition hardware on Sun's Solaris/ZFS founded OpenStorage platforms (a land of Thumpers, to be taxon). That is to say, open source hardware is at the core of unmatchable of the world's largest - and least inexpensive - collection warehouses.

Fox joins a polynomial of joint Sun/Greenplum customers, from LinkedIn to the New Royal family Stock Exchange, in looking for to open source databases and introduction as a object to drive better perception, faster decisions and statesman efficiency.

Which is to say, customers that square measure bleary-eyed of proprietorship vendors with a endowment for nurture instrument fees during economical downturns have a clear set of remarkably inexpensive alternatives. Founded on trade good economic science everyone lavatory understand.

Congratulations to every involved!

______________________________

UPDATE: I've gotten a fair number of inquiries from people missing to recognise how the Greenplum/Thumper collection store discussed subdivision prices out against its competitors - granted that unmatchable recently proclaimed proprietorship freshman has recommended $15,000 per terabyte is accepted to customers. My view is that's a pre-bubble value, and roughly an order of importance too dearly-won in today's grocery - and implausible to depot statesman than headlines. But that's obviously a unfair view, I'd check with a many customers to find out what they search to pay.