Kraftwerk's "Home Computer" - a redux I started cleaning out my office this morning in preparation for my relocation to Austin. Among the mess, I found some lyrics I wrote several years ago to the tune of Kraftwerk's "Home Computer".
The original song starts out...
I program my home computer,
beam myself into the future.
The hoffie redux...
I program my Ultra 60
Java on Solaris computes swiftly
Orient my objects in elegant hierachy
cronjobs orchestrate the desired chronlogy
Threads abound in the process
signals and interupts spin the mutex
Far removed from gates etched in silicon
I extend stubs and create singleton
Garbage collection is a Godsend
pointer arithmetic, a byegone trend
The JVM shields my UltraSparc
crashless computing hits the mark
Users appreciate the app's availability
System admins embrace the stability
Ant for build, tomcat for container
open source has become a no-brainer
Solaris stands as the king
of symmetric multi-processing
Will the maturation of Linux end its reign?
Against legions of developers kernel hacking,
Sun must change if it desires to remain
"Software wants to be free"
Java Business Expo 1999, Scott McNealy
Back in 2002, I had left the lyrics open-ended and unpublished, but today there are more answers than questions and I have this blog as a medium. Sun has answered the marketplace on several fronts. Solaris 10 has been open sourced and the Scalable Systems Group has doubled down on its SMP strength by funneling in-house chip development to Niagara. Those systems are supposed to rock, to the tune of 15 times today's performance. That will truely be music to many people's ears. (2005-06-06 12:52:55.0)PermalinkComments [0]
Monday June 06, 2005 