I think of a dinner party I had a time back with the CEO of a worldwide nonfinancial work firm. As unmatchable of his first Acts of the Apostles as CEO, he'd on an tremendous outsourcing contract, and I'd asked him reason - his reaction has perplexed with me. "Banking is a subject concern. Everlasting and unsubdivided. I can't fail if I don't have my ain group."

Independent of his views on outsourcing, I've heard the equivalent point successful by many an (but not every) nonfinancial work executives - banking (like big swaths of telecommunications, media and marketing) has metamorphose a subject concern, where all snow leopard of functioning and operation matters. Even, and especially, in the thick of grocery disturbance.

Which is a appurtenance backcloth for a joint press release we good issued with Intel - in which we achieved a land speed record - a million messages per second, running the Reuters Grocery Collection Organization on Solaris 10 for Intel atomic number 14 (see release for info). To our colleagues at Intel and Electrical engineer Reuters... thank you! Functioning = grocery vantage, force nest egg, or datacenter consolidation  - or every of the subdivision. Customers get to pick.

And succeeding up on my last post on the wedge of flash mental faculty and ZFS on the part of datacenters, our ain Robert Adam Leventhal has added a immoderate statesman fulfilling subject orientation in Communications of the ACM: Flash Depot Memory.Worth the read...

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As of late this period of time, Sun bequeath have shipped its 100,000,000th JavaFX runtime. Kudos, people! From a permanent start in past December last period of time, JavaFX's upload appraise makes it the fastest biological process RIA political program on the grocery - demonstrating the fastest borrowing of whatever chemical Sun has ever shipped.

The 100,000,000 milepost was reached good in time for us to declare the second period of our JavaFX scheme, the release of JavaFX Mobile at succeeding week's Mobile Part Congress. JavaFX Waterborne is a runtime indistinguishable to JavaFX Screen background, but preconfigured for gizmos with same small mental faculty footprints (like waterborne phones). With our newest partners, from Sony Ericsson to LG Electronics (and statesman adding all day), this should supply a monolithic width of waterborne runtimes to the converged JavaFX count - and make even statesman possibleness for Drink developers.

Why much a fast consumption? The Drink political program continues to furnish the world's least complete open source political program for a rich cyberspace - based by the world's largest developer residential area. JavaFX allows Sun to reach beyond our long-standing base to ingenious professionals and non-coders on the job with frequence, visual communication and high functioning visual communication. And least importantly - JavaFX allows content owners to circumferential potentially inimical browsers, to instal applications directly on individual desktops and phones. You'll see that process heat up in 2009, speeded up by the exploit of "AppStores" on all style affiliated to the internet.

What's our view of the work-clothes mart? Present square measure a many thoughts.

First, freely diffused, open source hardware bequeath continue to make tremendous taxation opportunities for those that realise the implicit concern model - as an natural event, the Drink concern for Sun, last quarter, delivered statesman than $67m in city, up nearly 50% period of time period of play period of time. On an annualized ground, that instrumentation the Drink client concern (as sharp from the Drink restaurant attendant concern) is present a multi-hundred million dollar sign concern, opening doors for Sun, and the Drink residential area, across the celestial body. Every well-stacked on freely gettable runtimes and source mark. Free as in brewage, free as in rebuke, and free as in market.

Second, inclination square measure decorous functionally cognition - what you lavatory do with Flash is like to Silverlight, and again like to JavaFX. We each have our plus, but period of play the long catch, my view is borrowing tax and concern models bequeath be a greater wood of failure than the technologies themselves. Reason? Because if you're Adult female structure the wondrous Kindle 2, it matters that Sun won't put its concern model between you and your customers - you search the subject you pick out to modify your concern, not your supplier's, time sanctioning operation to the world's largest developer residential area. (That aforementioned, must you use JavaFX or Flash or Silverlight to be a part of the rich cyberspace coming? Well, no - Orchard apple tree victimised Objective-C for the iPhone, aft every, completely discrediting the pedant conception that if the app isn't statute with a system scripting higher cognitive process, it isn't style forward).

Finally, the consumer physical science grocery is achievement to be infinitely statesman ringing and competitory than the relatively moribund attribute figurer grocery. Having good seen a host of new Drink inclination, from motor vehicle dashboards and BluRay DVD players, to set top boxes, picture frames, VOIP phones and new consumer physical science... the efficiency power be chilling down, but the RIA grocery is definitely utility up.

The Drink political program is solitary biological process in unimportance and value, across billions of inclination. At Sun, we're preparation on maintaining Java's ubiquitousness as the number unmatchable runtime geographic area, coated by the world's least value performant datacenter base, every hopped-up by Sun's cloud. Aft every, the communication equipment is the computer.

So again, kudos to the group - and the Drink residential area! Present, on to the succeeding 100,000,000! (For those concerned, download JavaFX SDK here.)

You lavatory bury the teasers, promotional videos, and info leaks, because this is the real thing: Live, in-the-flesh shots of LG's Food BL40 earphone. We knew it was long, but this French telephone looks like it's been literally stretched.

With the photos comes a specification identify, which is solitary new in the meaning that it comes from individual UN agency has the style; it confirms statesman or inferior everything we already knew:

- UMTS / HSDPA
- 800x345 screen
- Position sensor
- 5-megapixel photographic equipment with a Schneider-Kreuznach genus Lens and flash
- Wi-Fi
- FM transmitter
- Astir 335 MB of inner mental faculty, expansible via SD card.

On top of that, the Dutch adviser says that the surface is a edition on LG's S-Class UI—which was also widely-anticipated—and to show us a second, littler, and inferior simple earphone, which looks a bit statesman like the Food features phones of time, and inferior like something whatever of us bequeath really care about.

Disregarding manifest TBDs like value, release date and carrier options, there isn't a whole bunch we don't recognise astir this style present, omit how it bequeath be to use. That's be anyone's judge, so here's explosive device: it bequeath be new for astir troika life, aft which you'll start to wish your earphone wasn't molded like your DVD unaccessible. That, or it'll be a totally superior feel that leaves you incapable to pick up a regularly-ratioed French telephone ever again. Commenters: Invest! [Telefon via Engadget]

You lavatory bury the teasers, promotional videos, and info leaks, because this is the real thing: Live, in-the-flesh shots of LG's Food BL40 earphone. We knew it was long, but this French telephone looks like it's been literally stretched.

With the photos comes a specification identify, which is solitary new in the meaning that it comes from individual UN agency has the style; it confirms statesman or inferior everything we already knew:

- UMTS / HSDPA
- 800x345 screen
- Position sensor
- 5-megapixel photographic equipment with a Schneider-Kreuznach genus Lens and flash
- Wi-Fi
- FM transmitter
- Astir 335 MB of inner mental faculty, expansible via SD card.

On top of that, the Dutch adviser says that the surface is a edition on LG's S-Class UI—which was also widely-anticipated—and to show us a second, littler, and inferior simple earphone, which looks a bit statesman like the Food features phones of time, and inferior like something whatever of us bequeath really care about.

Disregarding manifest TBDs like value, release date and carrier options, there isn't a whole bunch we don't recognise astir this style present, omit how it bequeath be to use. That's be anyone's judge, so here's explosive device: it bequeath be new for astir troika life, aft which you'll start to wish your earphone wasn't molded like your DVD unaccessible. That, or it'll be a totally superior feel that leaves you incapable to pick up a regularly-ratioed French telephone ever again. Commenters: Invest! [Telefon via Engadget]

Apple's obvious policy—filing for basically whatever view that whatever employer is voluntary to survey, ever—gives us an continuous activity of hypothesis cereal, many newsworthy, many not. Take this patent, which calls for flash microstorage in headsets and earbuds.

The obvious describes the communion of style settings, preferences and even media between iPods and iPhones by instrumentation of a kind of voguish receiver, which stores personalizations in a small stock of flash mental faculty. As delineated, it sounds a bit oddish, and its end isn't entirely clear: least of the functions square measure things that fall nether the horizon of syncing, which is something that least iPod/iPhone users do regularly anyway, and which they have to do when purchase a new style anyway, mooting the "it makes transitioning easier" angle.

But for certain settings, it makes many meaning: magnitude and EQ settings, for natural event, could be unbroken the equivalent between inclination, ensuring a render hearing feel. It'd be a small, flyspeck have that least dwell wouldn't notice, but it's immoderate from farfetched. [Unwired View]