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  1. IDEAS view on 2010 trends: http://ow.ly/N5d9 -- acquisitions, x86, virtualization, clouds
  2. Virtualization mostly used for turning one server into many; now how about turning many servers into one? IDEAS blog: http://ow.ly/zVQ4
  3. What's Oracle's Ellison's next move re: EC & Sun? 4 possibilities at FT.com/techblog http://bit.ly/TU704
  4. RT @Chris_Guan re:BusinessWeek story on Arista & Andy Bechtolsheim http://ow.ly/u96h
  5. IBM/Oracle DB battles should prove interesting/entertaining. BTW, Oracle $10M contest install date rules preclude use of DB2 pureScale
  6. DB2 pureScale for Power Systems borrows from mainframe DB2/Sysplex to enhance clustered DB perf to compete w/ Oracle RAC http://ow.ly/tBxr
  7. Oracle escalates DB war w/IBM, $10M contest: http://ow.ly/tBgP (rules: http://ow.ly/tBh8)
  8. RT @ibmperformance TPC slaps Oracle wrist http://ow.ly/rELI re: TPC-C claim: http://ow.ly/i/1Kh see also IDEAS blog: http://ow.ly/pK6R
  9. RT @itaniumalliance http://ow.ly/qAtV re:Tukwila&Nehalem; my view: commonality = Itanium less costly, but Xeon RAS+ dilutes IA64 difference
  10. RT @stshank Intel ASCI Red almost PA-RISC http://bit.ly/rExkX
  11. Even if flash trading limited, http://bit.ly/ScZQX, still plenty of demand for HPC on Wall St - IDEAS Blog http://tinyurl.com/mfo6by
  12. Oracle Exadata DB Machine v2 adds 5 TB flash memory to boost perf, and switches from HP Xeon 5400 Proliant (in v1) to Sun Nehalem servers
  13. #hponws Arista's Andy Bechtolsheim raced thru charts showing his 1-10Gb L2 switch latency as 1/5 - 1/50 of others.
  14. #hponws HPConWallSt conf exactly 1 yr after Lehman collapse. Vendors/attendees still think HPC can give profit edge.
  15. RT @ghaff re:BusinessWeek Sarah Lacy piece http://bit.ly/17MXWe I don't want "be-my-intimate-friend" girls that "show" up as followers
  16. RT @Burgess_Gary Nehalem vs POWER perf blogs http://tinyurl.com/nn84vz Full story free (w/regist) IDEAS newsletter http://tinyurl.com/lc6ccc
  17. Some POWER7 details: 8-cores/chip, 4-SMT/core, lower clock rate but as much perf/core as Pwr6. http://tinyurl.com/ndrcvy
  18. Sun users face expected acquisition FUD. IBM aggressively converting Sun users. Oracle needs to clarify HW plans ASAP. What's HP doing?
  19. nytimes.com\bits 6/15/09-3:46p: Sun Rock dropped. Competition-driven chip innovation victim of economy? Tremblay foresaw bits:4/7/09-5:28p
  20. AMD said 6-core Istanbul to come in June. Intel stole some thunder today previewing 8-core Nehalem EX, up to 8+ sockets, ships 2H09/1H10.