Excellent presentations from M...

Excellent presentations from MICROSOFT on tuning Oracle on Windows.
http://tinyurl.com/dbz2qt via http://www.diigo.com/~k2bravo

Oracle buys Sun! Owns Java, Solaris, MySQL

Oracle buys Sun! Owns Java, Solaris and MySQL Hopefully they'll kill MySQL for ever and dump Red Hat. Solaris use to be the primary development platform, and hjopefully it will be again. I'd love to see the back of the the Linus Torvalds kernel, and the crappy GNU software that gets bundled with it. Am I hoping for too much? Probably.

MySQL should be killed completely. If you want a free database, use PostgreSQL - it is WAY better.
http://bit.ly/18MK65

Oracle Critical Patch Update A...

Oracle Critical Patch Update April 2009 released.
2 vulnerabilities remotely exploitable without authentication.
http://bit.ly/GVG3

How to implement 4GT RAM tuning /3GB in Windows Server 2008 / Vista

How do you implement the same functionality as the Windows 2003 /3GB boot.ini switch in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008?

See: Microsoft Windows Performance Team Blog: Who Moved My /3GB?

http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2009/04/03/who-moved-my-3gb.aspx