Wednesday June 11, 2008 links for 2008-06-11
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Of course, this gives the DIS29500 editor some breathing space to cover up delinquency in submitting the final version of the spec. Even with the extra month I bet it will be a close call.
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ZFS support is now officially there. What would have been impossible through conventional business relationships has been achieved through open source.
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Seems anyone can look up the insurance status of any car on the road in the UK.
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( Jun 11 2008, 01:33:06 AM PDT )
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"ZFS support is now officially there. What would have been impossible through conventional business relationships has been achieved through open source."
And some day, Sun will make money out of it. Yeah, around the same time Jesus 2.0 arrives.
Posted by Virgin Mary on June 11, 2008 at 01:56 AM PDT #
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Well it has definitely improved my perception of Sun - when I look for hardware the first company in my mind is Sun. When I think of deployment platform I think Solaris. So yes open sourcing Solaris has brought Sun extra money. I'm sure I'm not that unique either...
Posted by Che Kristo on June 11, 2008 at 04:32 AM PDT #
Simon, on the insurance database. First it doesn't tell you anything valuable, except a car is or isn't insured. 2nd you have to agree to some rigorous terms, although how they'd enforce since they don't ask for any kind of id...
Posted by Mark Cathcart on June 11, 2008 at 12:16 PM PDT #