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There is a new Oracle Solaris Podcast available:

By combining the great products and technologies from Oracle and Sun, we are able to deliver a complete solution to our customers - from applications to disk. In this episode, the hosts dive into some of the things we've been doing over the last six months to integrate testing, support, and applications. They also cover early plans for deploying Sun systems in Oracle's Global IT infrastructure and how this will benefit our customers.

$2.07 billion for 3PAR - a company just working in the storage area - ... now i'm sure that $7.4 billion for Sun was a steal.

I sat a on my fingers for all the weekend but now i can't take all this comments in the blogs and the mailing lists any longer. Ten years ago, i would have gone ballistic long ago... but the fuse got longer of the past few years. However i'm still able to detonate, however despite the undirected explosion 10 years ago, it's more directed today.

And this article is such a directed explosion. I worked a while on this article and this was one of the reasons why it was relatively silent on this blog the last few days. At first i didn't wanted to publish it, but some events of today led me to think otherwise. I don't know if this is a wise move, because the torch of this rant will burn down some beards. On the other side, i think the article is worth the publication, but you have to judge about that.

However i try to prevent me from exploding thus i used this weekend to play with my new toy (i purchased an iPad last week and it's really fscking cool, i just thought "Like Enterprise ... i just wouldn't gave them away like they do in TNG" ) and worked a lot on the planing on the modifications on my newly purchased building.

However the mail by Garrett d'Amore asking about the removal of SVM was a drop. It was one of those drops, that led to a severe spill-over. So this blog article will be a long rant. If you don't like rants, just skip this.

And keep in mind, it's a rant ... it's not meant to be fair or objective ... think of it as a way to write down my frustration about a lot of events in the last few weeks and especially in the last few days.

Just in case you wonder about the relative silence in this blog ... i wrote a longer article in the last few days circling about Illumos, OpenSolaris, the Java lawsuit, some people in the Solaris community, an article about the live, the universe and all the rest ... it was a large big rant. I've decided not to put it on the blog ... a lot of work in the evenings for the bucket ... but believe me ... it's better that way

Last week i've reported about the point that the X-Force numbers regarding unpatched disclosures could be sorted in a different way to yield a completely different view on the data. More interesting is a recent development: After reassessing the data, many of the vulnerabilities had to be sorted into different categories. So the numbers were fundamentally incorrect as well.

The list changed a lot due to this changes: Sun went from 9% high+critical to 0%. IBM leads the pack with 29% unpatched high+critical vulnerabilities without patches. However 22% for Oracle doesn't look that good as well. You will find the updated list in the blog entry " Mid-Year 2010 X-Force Trend and Risk Report - Update to Unpatched Vulnerabilities Chart".

Nach der Sommerpause findet nun wieder ein HHOSUG Meeting statt. Am 23. September (nicht zufällig einen Tag nach der Oracle Open World) findet um 19:00 Uhr das 13. HHOSUG Meeting in der Hamburger Oracle Geschäftsstelle am Nagelsweg 55 statt.

Agenda bisher:
1. Wie gehts mit der HHOSUG weiter? Weiterführung der Diskussion vom letzten Mal.
2. Was zwischenzeitlich passierte? (Illumos, die merkwürdige Mail, Solaris 11 Announcement)
3. Was gabs auf der Oracle Open World für Solaris an relevanten Announcements?
4. ...

Weitere Vorschläge und Vorträge sind erbeten

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