I’ve been working with a lot of enterprise software during my whole career and it keep surprising me that almost no enterprise tool has any consideration for performance. I understand that the pricing is usually per CPU, which makes performance a less interesting feature for sales. But it goes too far.
How is it possible that you are advised to run 1 Oracle WebLogic Portal instance on 1 CPU? I know portal is not comparable to PHP, but a factor 1:1000 is a bit to much for my liking. And Oracle is not alone in this: IBM, SAP, all of these are slow and slower. And it’s weird since we (the IT boys and girls) have fixed this a long time ago.
There is a beautiful concept called HTML caching. Yes, I know: that’s not nice, architectural incorrect, not flexible enough. Indeed, heavily personalised pages might not be the primary candidates for full page caching, but most of the websites out there still use a fairly static homepage. Cache that page!
At Componence we’ve (finally) delivered a standard caching solution to put in front of Oracle WebLogic Portal (or BEA Weblogic Portal and the result is shocking. The performance improvement is upwards of 1:20. Give it a try: http://www.wk-vet.fr. Yes, that’s portal, and it’s dynamic.
Dear enterprise architects, please stop being such principle asses and apply the most common fixes to your performance problems.
Enterprise 2.0, Opinion, Web
Enterprise, performance
It’s already old news, but Intrepid Ibex has been release. Get it while it’s hot. It’s worth the download.
Look at my Current install page for an overview of what I install after the default install.
Ubuntu
intrepid ibex, release, Ubuntu
It seems there is a little progress in the support of MS Exchange 2007 in Evolution. The development halted due to license problems of the code in Evolution and libmapi. But now it seems that a brave developer has opened the discussion to update the license of Evolution so that development can continue. I certainly hope so, not only because Componence uses Exchange 2007, but also for the spreading of Linux to the business user.
Update:
Apparently Mr. Srinivasa Ragavan is really doing something to get the Exchange connection working. Keep up the good work!
Linux
evolution, exchange 2007
I only ran Ibex from the Live CD. The suspend seems to have stopped working, when I suspend and resume then I get a working system, but no mouse cursor and a black screen. Killing X works, but it’s not nice. That made me not upgrade.
Very positive is that it’s FAST. Not only Gnome works smoothly, but Firefox is just incredible. I’ve visited sites that I know have a lot of, very slow, javascript and they worked just amazingly fast. The bug that the passwords for multiple wireless networks are lost seems to be fixed.
It looks good, not special, but I knew that. I’m a bit disappointed about the suspend/resume not working. I hope that will be fixed before the release, because I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the fast resume in the beta.
Ubuntu
intrepid ibex, review
Owwww, we’re almost there! The Ubuntu 8.10 release candidate has been released.
Ubuntu
intrepid ibex, review
I’m rather surprised that a lot of desktop solutions still use a huge amount of vertical space on the screen. Especially since most monitors are more wide then high. Why isn’t it possible to put a lot of toolbars and related stuff (menus, status bars) on the side of windows?
There is a nice little Firefox plugin that helps a bit: TinyMenu. It’s pretty good, it decreases the Firefox menu to a single entry so that you can combine it with other entries on a toolbar. It saves my 1 toolbar vertical screen real estate.
GUI, Ubuntu
GUI, rant, Ubuntu
I usually don’t run any updates on a beta release. For the Flash update in Intrepid Ibex I’ve made an exception: each page I opened that contained Flash (and in these days, which doesn’t?) pulled my CPU to 100%. That’s annoying.
If you have the same problem, just search for the flash update in your Update Manager and install it. Richt click in the list, select “Uncheck all” and select only the flash update. After a restart of firefox you should be OK.
In my install the Update Manager started complaining that it wanted to do a Partial update. Don’t worry, just click “Close”.
Overall 8.10 is running extremely well. There are a few bugs that are annoying:
- NetworkManager forgets the password if you use multiple wireless networks.
- The dimming of the screen still doesn’t work right. If I plug in then it will dim to a fixed value, even if I selected it to be at a lower value. And plugging it in will select a higher value.
- Suspend and Wakeup works very good on my Sony. But it seems that changing anything during sleep kills the stability. I mean stuff like: unplug, or plug, the AC or attached (yes, or detach) an external monitor. I understand that’s complicated stuff: you wake up and the world has changed. I have that every day.
- I still had to do some tweaking to make the external monitor work. What’s good: at least it tried to adjust the Virtual setting in xorg.xonf.
- Compiz still can’t handle more then 2048×2048. Is it just me, or is that a bit outdated?
What I miss in the release is the USP, the killer app, … Of course it’s faster, uses less memory, works better with the hardware, but what makes this release special? It should have been the theme, but that is too weak for me.
It’s going to be a good release. Probably it will bring Ubuntu up to the level where XP was after about 7 or 8 years: stable and just working. Let’s hope the next release will take that step extra that pulls it above M$ and Apple.
Linux, Ubuntu
Adobe Flash, intrepid ibex
(mike): HEH, THIs Is AMuSINg
(mike): I Got a WiNAMP pLUgiN THAt BLInKS THE KEYboARD ledS tO THE MUSIc
(mike): BUT IT acTUALLY turNs THe CAPsLOcK On AND oFF iNSTEad OF JuST the LIGHt
Do I feel nerdy, I actually find that hilariously funny! Check for more l337: http://qdb.us/leetness
Personal
funny
The beta is realy remarkebly good. Suspend works like it should now, and the while system feels more snappy and stable then Hardy ever did for me.
I don’t get the rave about the NewHuman theme. For me it shows all the same problems as the other dark themes: some applications (try CompizConfig) just don’t work with it.
But overall the release looks promising. I’m really looking forward to the final!
Linux, Ubuntu
intrepid ibex, Ubuntu
Of course I couldn’t resists the temptation and I installed the beta 8.10 release. It’s really good. The suspend has improved a 100 times and the overall feel has become more performant and stable. So far I’m very much impressed.
Linux, Ubuntu
intrepid ibex, Ubuntu
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