Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Haddock]

> A one man job?
>
> To recompile abut 10 million lines of code?

Oracle already works on so many Unix variations incl. Linux, and I doubt it includes assembly code. It should be just almost totally automated to get it compiled on the new system.

All the apps on Linux probably have more lines of code in all, and I bet most of them compiled on Hammer with small or no changes. I'm not saying it's a tiny job, but I do think it's a one-man job. Two if they use pair-programming .

> And then perfrom extensive validation and verification in
> multiple CPU - and multi-user environments with a host of
> different applications, loads, etc.

All that validation stuff is only necessary if they actually want to sell it. They can do it if they decide to launch it as a product ie after they run internal benchmarks on production silicon. There's no evidence that Oracle have already made that decision.

> No wonder AMD is a failure in the business segment -
> they (you) don't have a clue what it's all about.

So you think I work for AMD?