About this product: Sun Microsystems is the type of company that most new startups hope to become: massively profitable, astoundingly innovative, and supremely adaptable. But as Karen Southwick's engaging narrative High Noon makes clear, there were many bumps along the road to Sun's $25 billion market valuation. In fact, when Sun started out in the early '80s as a spinoff of the Stanford University Network (SUN), there was barely a road at all.
It's hard to remember a time when there wasn't a computer on every desktop, but in 1981, engineers had to stand in line to use their company's mainframes. Sun's business strategy was to sell a desktop workstation for each employee who needed a computer. On top of that, Sun allowed those workstations to exchange data via an intracompany network, and used graphical interfaces to make them easier to navigate. Standard stuff now, but a radical series of concepts back then, and it was inevitable that Sun would clash with Microsoft. Sun CEO Scott McNealy's enmity for the software colossus is well-known--he was a key player in the U.S. government's antitrust action against Microsoft in the late 1990s--and it temporarily scattered the company's focus, leading to a major reorganization.
The conclusion to the Sun story is, of course, unknown. Southwick ends her book with a peek into the future, speculating on what will become of promising computer languages like Java and Jini. But it seems like it'll be a long time before Sun sets. --Lou Schuler
About this product: (Sun Microsystems) A definitive guide to the internals of the Solaris kernel, focusing on core kernel functions, major data structures, and algorithms. An indispensable reference for kernel developers, containing useful information for monitoring and optimizing Solaris systems.
About this product: Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world’s most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book. Chapters Include: Rodney Nelsestuen, AgriBank, FCB – “How Business Relationships Determine Technological Efficacy”; R. Blake Young, Dynegy, Inc. – “The Importance of Communication in Technology”; Tom Beauchamp, Hot Topic – “The Role of a CTO in the Retail Industry”; Bill Howard, Sun Microsystems – “The Key to CIO Success”; Thor Geir Ramleth, Bechtel Group, Inc. – “The Art of Being a CIO”; James E. Burdiss, Smurfit Stone Container Corporation – “Developing a Partnership Between IT and the Business Functions”; Stephen S. Brown, Carlson Companies – “Strategies for Success”; Filippo Passerini, Proctor & Gamble – “Making an Impact as a CIO”; Mike McClaskey, Perot Systems Corporation – “A People Business”; George Chappelle, H.J. Heinz – “Building and Working with a Strong Team”; Marc West, H&R Block – “Determining Technology Essentials”; Jeffery Carl Almoney, The Reynolds and Reynolds Company – “The Transformation of Automotive Retail.”
About this product: High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "In the software development process, a reference implementation (or, less frequently, sample implementation or model implementation) is the standard from which all other implementations, with their attendant customizations, are measured, and to which all improvements are added. An improving reference implementation in turn reflects its unchanging specification, or else an attempt at an implementation may prove that the specification is impractical and needs improvement itself. Testing the implementation-specification relationship further enhances the production's inter-process efficiencies: ? A reference implementation is, in general, an implementation of a specification to be used as a definitive interpretation for that specification. During the development of the ... conformance test suite, at least one relatively trusted implementation of each interface is necessary to discover errors or ambiguities in the specification, and validate the correct functioning of the test suite."
About this product: This digital document is an article from ColoradoBiz, published by Wiesner Publications, Inc. on November 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1432 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Palo Alto, CA-based Sun Microsystems Inc had announced in 1996 that it will establish a division in Colorado. The $11.7 billion company's Sun Enterprise Services Division is in the process of developing a 75-acre land in Broomfield's Interlocken Business Park. This is the Sun's only division headquarters that is located outside of Silicon Valley. It is believed that Sun will eventually provide employment to about 4,000 people in Colorado.
Citation Details Title: Sun also rises.(includes related article)(Sun Microsystems in Colorado) Author: Sandy Graham Publication:ColoradoBiz (Magazine/Journal) Date: November 1, 1999 Publisher: Wiesner Publications, Inc. Volume: 26 Issue: 11 Page: 44(5)
About this product: This digital document is an article from Computer Workstations, published by Worldwide Videotex on August 1, 2005. The length of the article is 916 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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About this product: Multithreading lets programs do two or more tasks at once, and it can let programmers take advantage of the latest symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) systems in Unix. But to get this performance boost, you'll want to read Multithreaded Programming with Pthreads first. It delivers both the concepts behind multithreaded design along with real-world source code excerpts that show you how to apply the concepts to real-world Unix projects.
This book begins with the evolution of the various libraries that support multithreading. In the ecumenical spirit of Unix, the authors cover all the bases of Portable Operating System Interface for Unix (POSIX) libraries, including Linux, DEC, IBM, HP, and Sun Solaris, and even add-ons to NT and OS/2 for their POSIX support. The authors acknowledge that there may be variations in your version of Unix, but suggest that POSIX threads have good support from most vendors.
The authors then cover the basics of threads and how they run in today's Unix. The authors turn quickly to their implementation in variants of Unix, including Lightweight Processes (LWPs). They then cover the lifecycles of threads and how they are scheduled.
The primary focus in Multithreaded Programming with Pthreads is on how to make threads work together effectively. Multithreading involves a host of design issues, from patterns of how to organize threading in a program (with models such as the Producer/Consumer or the Master/Slave) to how to coordinate work done by multiple threads with facilities such as mutexes, critical sections, semaphores, and more arcane solutions (such as monitors and spin locks). The authors guide the reader to all the possibilities here, including suggestions on program design.
The real-world focus here involves some sample code (in C), a quick tour of the issues in using Pthreads with other programming languages, and some excellent material on benchmarking multithreaded code. The authors' ideas on when to use and when to avoid Pthreads are also useful. Though Pthreads will not work everywhere, they have a lot of potential to enhance the performance of today's software. This technical--and quite engaging--text can show you if Pthreads are in the cards for your next Unix programming project.
About this product: For developers who want to design for performance and administrators who need to improve performance, this book is an indispensable reference. It covers SPARC systems and peripherals and the latest release of Solaris (2.6). It includes detailed configuration and performance information not available anywhere else, plus clear explanations of how to use system monitoring tools.
About this product: *The experienced developer's guide to Java programming-now fully updated for JDK 1.3
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