The Last Word On The Sun/MySQL Acquisition
I've had a small conversation with Oliver Widder last week. He's the creator of the fantastic Geek&Poke cartoons and I asked him if he wouldn't like to create a cartoon on the MySQL acquisition. So enjoy here
Posted at 09:08AM Feb 25, 2008 by Armin Wallrab in Sun Related | Kommentare[1]
SOA and Web 2.0 slides
You can download the slides from my presentation at the Partner Uni in Fulda here.
Posted at 12:17PM Feb 20, 2008 by Armin Wallrab in SOA, BI and Governance | Kommentare[0]
VirtualBox is great
This week Sun announced the aquisition of innotek, the company behind the open source desktop virtualization VirtualBox. Innotek is based in Stuttgart, Germany - the home of Daimler/Mercedes-Benz - so I'd expect superior engineering and quality but not too competitive pricing 
I gave it a quick try with Windows XP and Ubuntu and I am completely happy with what I've seen so far. Small download, small memory requirements, very easy to use, very snappy guest behaviour, easy and fast snapshots. All free and open source, with the exception of USB, RDP and iSCSI support (enterprise features, closed source (for now)).
I've been using VMware for my demos, but probably I'm going to switch soon after some more testing. I have not tried myself, but others have managed to get Solaris running on VirtualBox.
Posted at 12:26AM Feb 16, 2008 by Armin Wallrab in Sun Related | Kommentare[0]