online.wsj.com — The DTrace trouble-shooting software from Sun was chosen as the Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards contest, the second time in three years that a Sun entry has won the top award. The panel of judges, representing industry as well as research and academic institutions, selected Gold, Silver and Bronze award...
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tmoliniSep 11, 2006Submitter
Wow! Sun is awarded several awards this week..... it is a good day for many folks in engineering and product marketing. Our hats are off to you!Not only was DTrace software from Sun was chosen as the Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards contest, the T1000 was awarded a runner up for the Energy & Power category.Additionally, two leading Java technology products - Sun Java Web Start technology and NetBeans IDE 5.0 - are recipients of the Java Developer's Journal Editor's Choice Awards. JDJ also recognized SwingLabs, a Sun-sponsored umbrella project for various open source initiatives that is part of the java.net community.Interesting common thread... with the exception of Sun Java Web Start technology, they are all open source.
superslothSep 11, 2006
Open source, yes. FLOSS, no.
rodrickbrownSep 11, 2006
Dtrace isnt a performance enhancement tool, I dont believe you really understood what he speaker was refering too, because if anything performance will slightly decrease not increase 30-40% lol. Dtrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework that you can us e to pretty much pull any information out of your system that your system records.
robbytSep 11, 2006
the main time i hear the word "innovation" abused is when it's used by microsoft
jamesdwiSep 11, 2006
well since many people reading this may not know what dtrace is here, is a blog entry that tries to emplain what dtrace is and how its being used. <a class="user" href="http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/05/what-is-dtrace.html">http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/05/what-is-dtrace.html</a>
joshjoneswasSep 11, 2006
I cannot speak for the IBM product... but it ranked higher than an inhalable version of insulin?Seems a little backwards! Can someone point me to an instance of IBM saving a life anywhere on the planet? :)
joshjoneswasSep 11, 2006
Showing my ass. I meant to say "SUN" not "IBM"