After more than three years of development, Ceylon is now feature-complete. Ceylon 1.0 beta implements the whole language specification, providing the capability to execute Ceylon programs on both Java and JavaScript virtual machines and to interoperate with native code written for those platforms.
We think we may have created the largest Minecraft world ever built based on real-world data
The map can be downloaded from the Ordnance Survey here.
Hilton has been speaking at the VMworld conference in San Francisco this week about the challenges he faces as an IT decision maker of a major enterprise. His account makes for insightful reading – and covers a set of challenges all too familiar to his peer group.
On security:
“I was saying to somebody just the other day, I actually believe that we need to start viewing the data center network as untrusted. We’ve just got to the point we’re viewing our LAN, our office network, we’re viewing as untrusted."
On hybrid clouds:
And while hybrid cloud is something that is worth considering, Hilton isn’t keen on the idea of OpenStack: “My answer’s no. It’s not worth it. I’ve got 15,000, 20,000 VDI systems running on VMware. I’ve got probably another 30,000 virtual servers, 25,000 to 30,000. I like having a single fabric. It’s very important to have a single fabric. If I go back and go OpenStack, that’s not where the money is. “The money is in my people having to build, having to certify, and run it and operate it. The money we spend with integrated stack like VMware pays for itself, magnitudes, like hundreds of times when it comes to my people’s cost to run it.”
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
