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While it's fair to say that we are still working on hardening, Zimbra was designed from the ground up for such scale. The Zimbra architecture inherits from distributed systems expertise that was gleaned building messaging systems that today host many millions of mailboxes world-wide and Java systems that have thousands of production server CPUs within single large Telco deployments.

Of paramount importance to scaling is partitioning. Partitioning leverages "locality of reference" for both processing and data---if certain servers can be specialized to solve some subset of the bigger problem, then the essential code and data are more likely already to be in memory or close at hand on fast disk.

Nice review of the principles of scaling VLIS.

Zimbra - Blog - Scaling up Zimbra

If you did take a look at the drive data, you can see that, for each half year, the drive with the best $ per megabyte figure has been highlighted. This is sometimes called the sweet spot. By calculating the percentage improvement, year on year, using the figure from the first half, I have come up with this graph which charts the history the annual improvement rate of bang per per buck.

Nice trend analysis.

Hard Drive Trends

Backup software is hard and thankless. A sizable minority has bad ideas about how backup does/should work, and what their real needs are.

Backup software is an organization’s software-quality acid test. For Apple’s software spread, I would place it only after the file system and Core Data in the ranking of software that absolutely, positively must-work. It requires an engineering backbone of steel, sometimes even saying “no” to data-compromising requests from users, upper-management and marketing.

rentzsch.com: Hole in the Umbrella: Backup 3

If all goes as planned, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," Michael Chabon's 1988 novel that put him on the literary map, will be made into an $8 million to $9 million movie starring a yet-to-be-cast actor in the lead, plus Peter Sarsgaard and Sienna Miller.

Still to be decided, however, is whether the movie in which Pittsburgh is a virtual character will be made in Pittsburgh.

Chabon's Pittsburgh movie may not be filmed here

# In Q1 alone, 24 Oracle customers (including Siebel, Peoplesoft, JDE, and Retek customers) committed to replacing their software with offerings from SAP. In Q1 there were 27 new maintenance contracts for TommorrowNow. To put that in perspective, there have been zero OFFSAP wins, not just in the quarter but to date.

# Oracle’s stated Q3 2006 application license revenue is 35% less than the Q3 2004 combined application license revenues of Oracle, PeopleSoft, Retek and Siebel prior to any Oracle acquisition.

# With Q3 2006 world-wide application license revenue of $269 million, Oracle sold roughly as much software as SAP sold in the Americas alone in our Q1 2006.

Venture Chronicles | SAP Earnings

Few at eBay initially saw reason to fear Google, say people at the company, in part because of a 2003 study it commissioned from McKinsey & Co. McKinsey concluded that Google wouldn’t use its search capabilities to break into e-commerce. That made Google a manageable threat, say people familiar with the study. EBay’s dependence on Google increased as it shifted ad dollars to online ads from traditional media throughout 2004.

I think McKinsey reports should come with a statutory warning. Why? These are the same people who told AT&T back in the day, that mobile phones will be a niche market.

GigaOM : » In McKinsey We Trust.. oh oh

Somewhere between theoretical constructs like finite automata and Turing machines and feature-rich programming languages like Perl and C lives a world of misfits. These so-called esoteric languages frequently employ obfuscation and fustian as central design goals; but that doesn't mean you can't do some neat (useless) things with them.

Programming doesn't have to be easy | MetaFilter

But the damned comment spam just keeps flowing past the CAPTCHAs and onto my pages.

The Internet Axis of Evil wins another round.

A VC: CAPTCHAs Don't Work

Intending no disrespect I assert that those who ask this question... are asking the wrong question. A more useful question would be: why would six honorable men do this at best controversial, at worst questionable thing?

Have the generals forgotten their schooling in our nation’s tradition of military subordination to civilian control? Is their true goal really to compel the resignation of the SecDef? Are they petty men working off petty grievances by thumbing their noses in public at a man they just don’t like? Are they working to get every incumbent up for election this year thrown out of office?

If your answer to any of those questions was “Yes,” then you have assumed these six generals are simple men, incapable of subtlety, whose public actions should be taken at their simple face value.
I‘m telling you this knife-fight ain’t about Iraq: it’s about Iran!

Well written piece based on a strong understanding of military conduct and military honor.

But Iran is the future, and for the soldiers with recent or continuing access to the details of our nation’s military plans and intentions, that elite group of men and women who *know* what is going to happen in the months ahead… the future will always be classified!

The Heart of the Matter: Iran and Iraq