Parrot you say? Think of it as the engine which underlies Perl6 and quite a few other dynamic languages … One engine to run them all, and in the computer, bind them. Hopefully this means (also) that Perl6 will formally ship this Christmas. The running joke is that it will ship around Christmas, only the year is indeterminate. More seriously, I’ve been using Perl and dynamic languages in general for more than a decade.

The NYT reports talks in progress. Not sure if its real. Need to think on this somewhat … makes sense as Sun is so cheap, but like many other acquisitions, this one is likely to give some folks a real bad case of indigestion. There are a few elements of Sun worth having, and some … not so much. Will be interesting to see if this is real, and if so, what the market impact would be.

Cisco announced a new product today, code named California. You can read some of the info here. This system, also known more formally as a “Unified Computing System” aims to integrate computing, networking and storage into a single managed system. Cisco appears to be aiming for what it believes to be a sweet spot in virtualized infrastructures. Their play appears to be focused upon virtualization. They tied in a slew of players on the software stack side, and Accenture on the services side.

Maybe later on this week I’ll write up a more detailed set of things I’ve been thinking of, while I see another “fad” grip the computing world. Until then, John West at InsideHPC.com asks a question of why is Sun coming back to the cloud table? John points* out I’ll save my “cloud” comments until the future article. Though I might point out that for a new investment in technology to build a cloud computing facility, the business model generally needs you to spend as little as possible per system and per gigabyte of storage.

Back at SGI, the company did a pitful job explaining who it was, what it did, and how it did it, not to mention why it was important. This is marketing, basic simple, get the message out marketing. In the 90’s, SGI was a great company. We had at the time, great products. And, as we naively believed that the world would beat a path to our door in order to get them, we sorta … kinda … forgot to tell people about what we did and why it was important.

ok, looks like it is mostly one way … oh well … [update] Nope … bidirectional … with a bit of latency though. I now have Wordpress talking nicely with twitter, and Wordpress and LinkedIn tied together. Scary. Social networking gone wild. Too bad there are few if any business models that will work for these folks.

testing the reverse link…. twitter to blog … Content free post, just testing shiny new tools (everyone say “oooohhh”)

this is a test, had this been an actual post, you would have been given content to read …

Also working on some business proposals/models to pursue a number of funding (equity/etc) opportunities.

Working on storage software updates. Making the software simpler/easier to use. Working on the web interface to status/updates.