Sun may or may not be about to obliterate Oracle and Microsoft | The Register “When I was in computer science class and the topic of threads and mutexes came up, I gave it a whole hearted fuck this and took a 45-minute bathroom break. In the typical American fashion, I expected somebody to bail my ass out when I had to do this in industry.” another great Dziuba post.
All his posts are somewhat entertaining and interesting, though the Hadoop one is by far the best. There are a few gems in his latest post. EC2 is very popular with the Web 2.0 crowd, which is strange, considering the hurdles that these Javascript all-stars need to overcome.
btw, *every* major player is going to release their own TM implementation in the next 2 years. it’ll be interesting to see how it works out. so far, even with hardware, the penalties are still high.