Sun Reineventing the Wheel - again (Score 1)

Why does it always seem big news for Sun when they've done what is already available?

And they don't even redo it well. Now, if dtrace were user/admin friendly, I could see why a new tool had to be reinvented. But dtrace is a step above writing a c program to use probe system calls - no imagination when it comes to what is useful to the user community.

No doubt, dtrace is a powerful tool, but so is crash and adb and just as user-unfriendly. Sun should read the technology history books and listen to the user community before they tout capabilities that have existed in other OS's for decades.
Instead they display their infancy to user-friendliness and mature OS capabilities. Kind of scary for an OS that's been around for 20+ years.

dtrace appears to be another Sun internal science project to make it easier for Sun's own engineers to figure out what's going on in their OS. Their engineers, being young pups, have no clue that what they "invented" is not unique and pound their chests to display their inexperience in relating to the business world and user community.

While IBM is touting technology that allows computers to read brainwaves, Sun is happy to give hackers yet another system monitoring tool (YASMT) and makes it front page news - no less. This is the type of tool IBM and others treat as ho-hum because they have much more relevant technologies to show off.