Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck: The Wall That Was Not

At first pass, it looks like a shipment that arrived yesterday on the anniversary of the historic day, but it is actually more as it anticipates change. By the way, the interesting thing about the T1000 is that it can run 32 threads in parallel. That is FOUR times more than CELL. The T1000 features the UltraSPARC T1 processor, the same core featured at OpenSPARC. Now, whether we consider the Sun Fire T1000 server as the alternative developer platform while we get a new board developed or just a great server, time will tell, but be certain, it is time to “tear down this wall.” 

Beginning yesterday and running for the next few days marks the anniversity of euphoric change that swept across Europe. The sudden opening of checkpoints in Berlin on the night of November 9, 1989, was more than just one moment in history. It was the beginning of an exciting and sometimes difficult chapter for Germany, a chapter that is still being written 17 years later. All said, Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the German people made unification and a united Germany the firm anchor for Europe and the World it is today. The immensity of the event and the subsequent integration stands as a benchmark and an example for all the world. At stake was much more than Germany.

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