Roman Shaposhnik's

With Intel and AMD introducing Quad core systems and Sun pushing the envelope even further with its first hexadeca-core CPU named Rock the question that software industry has to ask itself is: are we ready to make all these threads of execution do useful work for us? My strong opinion is that we are not ready. A new paradigm is yet to be invented and we don't really know what it should look like. We do, however, seem to know what it should NOT look like. It definitely should not look like POSIX threads. What's wrong with POSIX threads you ask?[Read More]

I would like to invite all of the developers out there to join a bunch of my colleagues and myself in the Live Chat event that we're putting together to discuss anything that is related to the software development on Solaris. We would be answering your questions on Solaris Express Developer Edition, Sun Studio, HPC and talking about all things related to the development process starting from how come we still have /usr/sfw/bin all the way to whether or not iPod support is part of the proper developer's desktop. The event will run from 24th of July all the way to 27th of July every day from 9am-11am PST. All you have to do is just click on the Live Chat link and you should be good to go. The whole thing looks strikingly similar to a "public" IM and is quite simple to use.

P.S. Come on! Bring your embarrassing questions with you, 'cause you know what -- quoting snippets of this upcoming live chat might just be the best way to convince PHBs around here. After all you are the customers and you know what that means.