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Monday September 11, 2006

Digg This! Dtrace and Niagara are winning innovations!
I have often said that Sun is right to push Innovation into the marketplace. Its the key to Sun's success (and now turnaround ).
This morning WallStreet Journal picked Dtrace and Niagara has hot inventions for The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards.
This is what they had to say:
Sun’s DTrace software is named the Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards. According to the piece, “Bryan Cantrill and a team of engineers at Sun have devised a way to diagnose misbehaving software quickly and while it's still doing its work. While traditional trouble-shooting programs can take several days of testing to locate a problem, the new technology, called DTrace, is able to track down problems quickly and relatively easily, even if the cause is buried deep in a complex computer system … Mr. Cantrill came up with the general idea for DTrace in 1996, while he was a computer-science student at Brown University, but didn't get to start work on it until late 2001. It took nearly three years for him and his team -- Michael Shapiro, a Sun distinguished engineer, and Adam Leventhal, a staff engineer -- to make it work; a final version shipped early last year as part of Sun's Solaris 10 OS.”
In the Energy and Power section, they picked UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) as an eco-friendly processor that generates less heat
Digg picked up on the story here.
My opinion: Its even better when a non-techie magazine picks us for innovation. Thats true recognition!
Way to go, Dtrace and Niagara!
Posted by tatkar ( Sep 11 2006, 01:20:34 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]

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