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What does it mean for Oracle to buy Sun and Virtual Iron? A play for the Cloud
May 20, 2009 – 6:00 am | 5 Comments

Last summer I signed up for a developer account with 3Tera in their AppLogic Cloud environment to begin testing it as a a place to move our current managed hosting environment. During that same time, we met with Oracle to discuss licensing Oracle in the 3Tera AppLogic cloud. The guys we spoke with could only [...]

Life of a Linux Systems Engineer
February 24, 2009 – 3:47 am | No Comment

Does a linux systems engineer have a life? I’m up at 3am working. I was up from midnight to 1:30am working as well. I will get up at 6am to go to work for 10-12 hours. The rest of the time I’m monitoring system messages to make sure everything is working properly and responding to [...]

Never enough time to tinker at home
February 21, 2009 – 5:59 pm | 3 Comments

I’ve been so busy with work I haven’t had time to take care of my network and system infrastructure at home. Anyone in this business knows that our setup at home is at least as good and at least as complex as our setup at work. Generally this is a source of frustration for our [...]