Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > Uh, Dtrace only works on one, at best two platforms. That
> > doesn't
> > > make it a very significant feature.
> >
> > I'm talking about from a press perspective. DTrace has gotten a
> > lot of ink lately, and is effectively a "buzzword" reporters on the
> > tech beat will recognize.
>
> Really? I was just about to comment that "nobody except insiders really
> know what DTrace is".. Are you sure you're not reading internal Sun
> magazines? ;-)
>
> FWIW, a quick search at swedens largest tech-news/press-release site
> shows up *a single* hit for DTrace this year. It's the press release for
> WSJs award they received.
> FYI, a postgresql search for the same time gives 20.
>
> If I search a different "business news" (not-just-tech-news-but-some)
> site, I don't get any hits at all.
Ditto. From my experience, the people who talk about DTrace most are
Sun employees. In fact, I think they take training to find out how to
work DTrace into every conversation. :-)
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