links for 2006-06-08

NSTL Benchmark Demonstrates That Microsoft Message Queuing Outperforms IBM MQSeries: Independent Study Shows MSMQ Beats IBM MQSeries up to a Factor of 10

Performance study made for Microsoft, unfortunatly the report links no longer work.

(tags: wmq msmq microsoft ibm performance)
Comparison of virtual machines

The table below compares basic information about virtual machine packages, including: creator, guest systems supported, license, etc. Note that these are all Virtual Machines in the ‘hypervisor’ or ‘hardware emulator’ sense. None of them are VMs in the ap

(tags: virtualization vmware VM)
EasyVMX!: Virtual Machine Creator

EasyVMX! is the simple and failsafe way to create complete virtual machines
for VMware Player on the web.

(tags: vmware virtualization vm)
Lint4j

Lint4j (”Lint for Java”) is a static Java source and byte code analyzer that detects locking and threading issues, performance and scalability problems, and checks complex contracts such as Java serialization by performing type, data flow, and lock graph

(tags: java maven eclipse lint4j testing tdd static_analysis)
The Importance of Branching Models in SCM

(tags: scm development versioning format:pdf by:chuck_walrad by:darrel_strom)
rsync.net

Secure, Online, Geo-Redundant Data Storage for
Offsite Backup, Remote Access, and Personal Use

(tags: backup filesystem rsync storage)

4 Responses

AIXpi Says:
June 8th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
And here is the answer from IBM to the NSTL study: http://www.theserverside.net/tt/articles/content/MicrosoftIBM/MSCommentaryToIBMResponse.pdf
//Stephan
AIXpi Says:
June 8th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Sorry I meant Microsofts reply to IBM’s reply. ;-)
*Confused*
//Stephan
niklas Says:
June 8th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Well, it’s one reply, but not for that study :-)

/niklas
AIXpi Says:
June 8th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Oops, now it’s getting embarrassing… :D
Sorry I mixed it up.
//Stephan