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In the multi-core age, can recursion be considered harmful?

By ray On March 31, 2011 · 2 Comments

I was playing around with some code recently and I thought, following much advice on functional style, that a little recursion would be nice:

I like the way that the collections have the right API to make this so easy (head and tail).

I had a quick comparison with how one might achieve this [...]

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How to licence for a MultiCore architecture? Part 3 (Oracle DB)

By tony On February 27, 2011 · 5 Comments

All of the opinions expressed here are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my clients.

On a recent project we had to architect a solution for a 1,000,000 user plus Oracle DB based solution. Before I came to the project there was an IBM based proposal on the table for hosting the [...]

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How to licence for a MultiCore architecture? Part II (SpringSource and VMWare)

By tony On February 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment

SpringSource TC server and VMWare Virtual Image Licencing

I recently spoke with the very nice sales teams of both SpringSource and Vmware (same company I know but different divisions). The explained how the TC server is licenced:

One licence per CPU Socket

But….

Only for a maximum of six cores!

So for an 8 core [...]

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How to licence for a MultiCore architecture?

By tony On February 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Licencing policies are difficult for software houses to get right. Which unit do they choose to charge per licence?

Which model to use?

per socket? per instance? per production instance? per core? per named user? per hostname? per user? per usage metric? per site? per concurrent user? per Enterprise? per avergae consumption per month? per [...]

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