I have a busy Typo3-site running with NGINX+PHP-FPM.
No Apache anymore.
Unless you need complex rewrite rules or the need for user-accessible .htaccess files, there's no need for Apache.

Switzerland is far too small and with far too many large international companies with assets and real business in the US.
As the whole "tax evaders" situation described above proved, it caves in far too fast.
Add to that that they probably have no interest protecting a company that isn't even Swiss...
There's a reason why Snowden didn't fly to Zurich or Geneva from the beginning - he did his research (and from what he saw in 2007, apparently he didn't like the city anyway)

Just pay by credit-card or ask for 2*5 in return...

I'm really surprised at what people can get worked up on.

And here in Switzerland, too.

The people selling expensive (4 and 5-figure expensive) watches and jewelery to Chinese tourists here are making an absolute fortune these days.

No, but I'd really hate it if the "flagship" phone was bigger than the iPhone5.
I don't read books on it (I do that on my 24" iMac) or buy a real book. For what I do (some Mail, reading slashot and a couple of other sites, WeatherPro, some other apps and a couple of games - and phoning people, receiving calls) the size of the screen on my iPhone 4S is big enough. I don't want to lug around anything bigger.
If I wanted to, I'd have bought an iPad Mini long ago.
I also don't need a stylus (I don't need or want to run rdesktop on my phone, like the co-worker with the SG Note 2 does).

Given Apple's latest quarterly numbers, there seem to be at least a couple of other people who think likewise.
There is a market for "phat" phones - but I doubt it's much larger than the vocal audience that continues to push these phones.

And thanks to the good ol' US of A, this line of thinking has caught on to most western democracies.

This is a very dangerous and slippery slope that the US has led the western world onto.
Judging from history, nothing good can ever come from this.

Sadly, your advice will not be listened to.

It will need a couple of TV-shows for Americans to realize the reality ;-)

Guess what, there are other nations, also well-off that are not hated by some many other people. There's a reason the US is targeted and it's not your aircondition - your posting is just a perfect example of why the US is perceived to be a "problem" in large parts of the world. If it wasn't so sad, your posting would be funny.

Hah - I've still got a couple of t-shirts with that slogan.

Still wearing them - they are quite sturdy ;-)

Single-Thread performance was never the strong point of the SPARC architecture.
But I believe, memory-bus and I/O performance was superior - until AMD HT and then Intel QPI surfaced....
At least, they didn't waste as much money and focus on a "Windows NT" strategy as SGI did.

I didn't really "miss" it, though I never laid my hand on the larger kit from back then.
I also don't deny that they had great products. Just that the market didn't think they were great enough, at some point.

I have to agree. While everyone kind of liked SUN and cherished their accomplishments - few ever bought anything of them.
It might have worked, if everybody actually using Solaris had also bought SUN x86 servers instead of installing it on generic hardware and bought more software from their stack. Additionally, for too long their business strategy seemed to be "Let's invent some mind-blowingly cool stuff and then have sales try to sell it to our customers".
And this not for one product, but basically for almost all of the products they came up with in the last years.

Oracle has no choice but to milk their current customers literally till the sun goes down.

Yes, religion is the only way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Force
Gives a new meaning to the word "high-priest of technology"...

I didn't understand much of Unix before I read her book. But then I got my hands on the (then already ancient) 1st edition of the Unix System Administration Handbook - and it felt like a fog being lifted.

And I admit, I also thought she was a guy. She probably has baskets full of letters and emails with "Dear Mr Nemeth, ...".

Evi Nemeth, we owe you!

Do they only sell to "large" customers, buying a couple of hundreds a time?
What does such a switch cost, compared to a Switch from Cisco or HP?