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I am inside the ICU at Mayo clinic, just a few hours after my open heart surgery. Steve, my ICU registered nurse, is my eyes and fingers typing this blog. As you can tell by the very fact that I am blogging I am [...]

Slava Ocks, a developer working on SQL Server 2005 within Microsoft, reported similar problems in a blog posting earlier this month.”Our customers observed very interesting behaviour on high-end HT-enabled hardware. They noticed that in some cases when high load is applied SQL Server CPU usage increases significantly but SQL Server performance degrades,” wrote Ocks.Ocks then [...]

Who’s presenting at JavaOne?

This year they’re having 318 BOFs and Sessions in 8 different Tracks…
BEA — 26 talks: 13 BOFs, 13 Sessions
Google — 2 talks: 1 BOF, 1 Session
IBM — No talks???
Sun — 144 Talks: 71 BOFs, 73 Sessions
Oracle — 16 Talks: 5 BOFs, 11 Sessions
Nokia — 11 Talks: 7 BOFs, 4 Sessions
HP — 2 talks: 1 BOF, [...]

MSFT @ JavaOne 2005

“I, Microsoft, take you, Sun, to be my partner,
loving what I know of you, and trusting what I do not yet know.
I eagerly anticipate the chance to be as admired as you were,
getting to know the force you had become,
and falling in love a little more every day.
I promise to interop, interop and interop with [...]