Sunday, August 22, 2004

Virtualizing via Solaris Patrick Giagnocavo writes: Solaris 10 will have "zones" which are similar to jails, plus will have a "container" setup where you have a zone located inside a container, and can configure RAM usage, CPU, number of simultaneous processes that can be run, etc. for each zone. If a zone takes up more than the configured amount of RAM, it will have its least active pages swapped out. Rebooting a zone will take a few seconds. You will be able to have up to 8191 zones per machine. That is impressive. http://www.jsequeira.com/cgi-bin/virtualization?SolarisZones 9:13:03 PM      comment []  trackback []

Bill de hÓra on why John Sequeira never got overly excited by Java Okay, that wasn't the actual title, but it definitely could have been. As Phil G articulated my distrust of application servers, so has Bill d O with my misgivings over java the language's technical, legal and organizational baggage. He goes a bit further though in prescribing some remedies, which also seem reasonable. I'm not sure about IronPython replacing VB though -- that seems like a reach. I think IronPython (and any other non-VB.NET and C# support) will occupy the same strategic niche as J++ and ActivePerl -- a sop to folks coming from other (mainly OSS/*nix) places, so they don't find the omnibus .NET platform so completely unfamiliar that they don't bother trying to learn it. 9:08:11 PM      comment []  trackback []