More on the Comcast-Level 3 spat

by | Nov 30, 2010 | Internet

Folks are piling onto Comcast but I am thinking they are wrong.  There’s one section in this post that blows Level 3’s arguments so full of holes swiss cheese looks solid: So what’s the issue? Level 3 told the world that Comcast had hit it up for more...

Comcast: Pay Or No Play(Not Really)

by | Nov 30, 2010 | Internet

Karl has this one nailed.  Just because Comcast is the bigger of the two doesn’t make it automatically wrong.  L3 is trying to push the colocation costs of CDN traffic to Comcast and L3 got Called on it.  Here’s a post on NANOG I found that very well...

Red Hat Releases RHEL 6

by | Nov 10, 2010 | Linux, Open Source, Vendors

I’ve been waiting for this.  There’s some performance issues with this latest version while virtualized but Red Hat is very good about fixing regressions like this.  I’m waiting the month or two it’ll take for Centos to get their next version...

Oracle’s hostility towards open source continues

by | Nov 10, 2010 | Oracle

You have to read both pages of the article…don’t just scan it.  Oracle has been slowly dismantling Sun’s entire portfolio and they are continuing that trend with Java. Apache threatens Oracle with Java exit • The Register.

It’s time to move to postgres

by | Nov 4, 2010 | Linux, Open Source

InnoDB Storage Engine Dropped From Oracle MySQL Classic Edition. Oracle owns Innodb and now MySQL.  It’s time to move from Mysql to postgres.  Not one of the mysql forks..but postgres.  Oracle is beginning the squeeze of Sun’s properties.
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