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Ben, Jason and Dave talk about OpenSolaris Build 56, Intel and Sun kissing in a tree; RSS readers…Vienna or NetNewsWire and some predictions for 2007.
Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
This week’s music: some of the soundtrack from arguably the worse James Bond film of all time: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. But the music is great.
This week’s highlighted product: Three Twins Ice Cream. From the heart of Marin County, California. Just like Joyent.
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I just finished listening to the pod cast.
Yet again, another great episode.
For all of you who complained in the past about audio problems – the audio was GREAT.
The audio was AWFUL—they kept clipping, though it was not as bad as it has been.
I love that bit at the end where Benr says “Do we really get to have coffee and ice cream?”
@Jared
What are you talking about? The audio quality was completely fine, stop complaining.
It must be your speakers because I could hear everyone crystal clear, and my volumne only set to only 25%.
No “clipping” experienced here.
I thought the audio was the best it’s been yet, too. No clipping whatsoever on my end.
So Jason, how about that weblog list?
“Dude Honda”. Aces.
Fun and informative as ever guys, nice one.
I am an avid ps pipe grep listener. After hearing this weeks episode, which addresses again how computing is moving towards a service model – Joyent should look to provide enterprise users the same functionality.
Note, I did not say enterprise web hosting – I simply say enterprise computing services (e.g. database services, network file sharing, web etc.)
Case in point, Oracle is making great inroads with their Oracle On-Demand (OOD) service. Oracle On-Demand, in case you are not aware, is a hosted environment for corporations to run their Oracle ERP instance.
Corporations love it because now they no longer have to purchase and maintain hardware, they simply load their Oracle instance on Oracle owned/leased machines and Oracle does the rest.
From a Sarbanes-Oxley standpoint, corporations are ecstatic because they are now able to offload some of their requirements for computer operations and security to the data center. Which saves them even more money.
I can envision Joyent providing the same service. You will need a SAS 70 for public companies to do business with you.
If you have any questions, please fill free to contact me via e-mail.
Joyent currently is a great company, and has the potential for so much more.
Why did you delete my comment? Have I become a troll? Confused.
@Michael, Yes I agree 100%.
@Andrew, I don’t think so but there was something like 200 automated porn comments that showed up on this post yesterday and I nuked them all. Perhaps I clipped your’s … ?
@Jason, that seems likely.
What I asked was how you saw the “consolidation” of Web2.0 startups in the coming year affecting your business. Like, if a significant fraction of your new signups cease to be, do you have sufficient growth overall to absorb that? That kind of thing.
Oh, and I wondered if you could have a little “ps pipe grep Episode n” announcement right at the start of each episode so I can easily find it on my iPod shuffle without having to figure out if the music I’m hearing is something I know or not.
There’s something about the idea of accepting call-ins to a podcast that sounds suspiciously like Mr. Show’s Pre-Taped Call In Show, which I was pointed to the other day. It made me smile, at least.
@andrew More then half of our customers aren’t startups but established companies who are looking for an “enterprise stack” that they can put an outwardly facing application in. Also many of our “web 2.0” startups are bootstrapped, relatively successful companies whose goal is to keep on cranking on their own. Also rarely does anyone of them (on their own) use more than say 1% of our infrastructure, that’s something we can absorb without problems.
I love the fact that you guys hope linux goes down and that solaris takes its place and especially that Sun doesn’t dual-license solaris with the GPL. However, you didn’t get to talk much about your reasons for reaching that conclusion, perhaps you could talk about that in your next podcast? I also believe the CDDL is better because it avoids the viral aspect of the GPL, allowing you to integrate proprietary code into solaris.
I can’t believe the ps pipe grep is back. Was starting to think you’ve given up making it.