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Jun 15, 2013, 4:22 PM EST
The Red Sox were hoping that Clay Buchholz would be ready to make his next scheduled start during Tuesday's doubleheader against the Rays, but Evan Drellich of MassLive.com reports that he has been scratched due to continued discomfort in his neck.
Buchholz left his start last Saturday due to neck tightness. While Red Sox manager John Farrell said that he "felt a little bit better" while throwing today, he's not ready to test things with a bullpen session. Felix Doubront is now scheduled to pitch one of the two games on Tuesday, but the Red Sox may end up placing Buchholz on the disabled list in order to make room for the other starter.
"Yeah, we are (considering a trip to the DL) and Clay's well aware of that and we had a chance to talk about where our threshold might be to make a decision," Farrell said. "Still, bottom line being we're not going to put him out there until we go through the normal build-up and make sure he's in a safe place physically.''
Buchholz leads the majors with a 1.71 ERA and is tied with Detroit's Max Scherzer for the American League lead with nine wins. The 28-year-old right-hander missed a start late last month due to soreness in his AC joint, but it's not believed to be related to his current injury.
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I'd say "back by popular demand," but I can't find anyone, anywhere who demanded it.
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Jews in the Former Soviet Union are generally well aware that the Russian-dominated part of the Communist empire was getting increasingly anti-Semitic after 1948, when it became clear Israel would not turn "red." What might have been had Stalin stayed in power? Yosef Begun's memories from Moscow Two years after the end of World War II in 1945, I was 15 and started my studies in a technical high-school attached to the aviation industry. I was lucky since a year later, in 1948, "the years of late Stalinism" began, with all kinds of discrimination and persecution of Jews. Jewish students were not accepted at our school. 1948 began tragically. I remember well a cold day in January. I was coming home late, frozen, looking forward to a hot supper. Right away I see that Mama is very upset; she is silent, with her hands resting in her lap."What happened?" I ask."Mikhoels is dead. It was an automobile accident." she replied.I must confess that at that time I didn't feel anything special. People were perishing every day. During that period I didn't know who was this famous Yiddish actor, director of the State Jewish Theater and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which was very helpful in the fight against Hitler. In my youth there was no place either for the Yiddish theater or for its great actor Solomon Mikhoels.I was very assimilated, like many others of my generation whom the Soviet regime deprived of Jewish education and Jewish identity.Mama and some relatives went for the last farewell.Before the Bolshevik Revolution Mama had had a "classical" Jewish girl's education in the cheder of her shtetl and respected everything Jewish. I was brought up as Soviet citizen who studied to be aviation engineer and literally did not know the difference between Mordechai and Haman. As a 15-year-old boy I had something "more important" to do that day. Still today I feel ashamed of this.At the time we still could not imagine what difficult times were beginning for us. Soon rumors began to circulate, each more terrifying than the one before. For example, at the great automobile factory in the name of Stalin in Moscow they said that "a group of saboteurs" had been uncovered, consisting of top engineers, all of whom were Jews. The newspapers wrote about "cosmopolitans" who did not love the Soviet homeland and Russian people and were "kowtowing" before the West. Almost all of the names of such people were Jewish.There were rumors about closing down the Yiddish Theater...at that time we knew nothing about the arrests, torture, trials and execution of Jewish cultural and public figures.There were hints, rumors and much uncertainty which contributed to our sense of fear of what was to come.Then came January 1953, when there were announcements about the "murderers in white coats." Once again the Jews. Anti-Semitic articles appeared in the central newspapers Pravda, Izvestiya, Komsomolskaya Pravda. There were caricatures in Krokodil, with exaggerated Jewish noses and sinister faces. The newspapers printed letters from workers demanding that the "Zionist agents" be rooted out and punished. No one knew who these "Zionist agents" were, but the papers explained that American Jewish organizations were recruiting Soviet Jews in order to harm Soviet people. Every Jew was, therefore, suspect.Many Jewish specialists were fired and rumors also circulated about the imminent deportation of Jews from Moscow.It was said that Jews themselves asked to be sent to distant regions to be saved from the "people's anger." As many others I thought that the newspapers could not lie; I hated those "Zionists" who were planning to harm our country. Because of them it would be bad for all Jews! Only one hope remained: our great leader, Comrade Stalin, wouldn't allow this! He saved us from the fascists and he knows that we love this country. He would determine who were the enemies and saboteurs. And our enemies, not just the Jewish ones, always got what they deserved.FEAR WAS the constant companion of every Jewish family in the Soviet Union. The mass propaganda affected everyone.In January 1953 I was on holiday at a small rest home near Moscow. Those who relaxed there were mostly simple, uneducated, hard workers who spent their time playing dominoes. However everyone showed up at a lecture about on "the international situation of the USSR." In fact the hall was full and people were turned away. After the lecturer from the city committee of the Party sounded off about the machinations of "western world reactionaries" and the Soviet struggle for peace, he was peppered with questions about the main topic at the time: "What will we do with those doctors – the murderers in white coats?" Waiving his right arm, the lecturer stated with pathos: "The criminals have confessed. There will be a trial!" On March 5, four days after Purim, when Stalin's death was announced, I was already 20, but was still terrified. I thought that now, finally, "they" would come after us; there was no longer anyone to protect us. One of the closest men to Stalin and a fellow Georgian, Lavrentiy Beria, became minister of internal affairs, and on April 4 it was announced that the "case against the doctors" had been fabricated by members of the state security service, including its deputy minister, Mikhael Ryumin. All of them had been arrested and quickly executed. Beria himself was arrested, secretly tried and shot.The Soviet "Haman" and a Pharaoh of our time, who had planned soon after the Holocaust another major program against Jews, collapsed on March 1, 1953. In a symbolic and miraculous way that day coincided with a joyous Jewish holiday and entered Jewish history as "Purim 1953."3,000,000 Jews of the Soviet Union and its colonies were saved from the great disaster. One can only surmise what would have happened if Stalin hadn't died just then. The possibilities included mass deportation of the Jews – following the model of Stalin's murderous wartime deportations of the Chechens and Crimean Tatars. Disagreements among historians about what Stalin had planned continue to this day.The truth about anti-Semitic Soviet actions was hidden from the public for many years until the Soviet regime collapsed at the beginning of the 1990s. Only then did Soviet citizens, including myself, become aware of the following.In 1948 and 1949 a group of Russian Jewish writers was arrested, among them the most prominent being Peretz Markish, David Hofstein, David Bergelson, Itzik Fefer, Leib Kvitko. Famous actor Benjamin Zuskin, who played leading roles in Mikhoels' theater, was also arrested. All of them and some other Jewish cultural figures were members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) during the war.Together with them, some prominent public figures were arrested: Solomon Lozovsky, the former deputy foreign minister, Boris Shimeliovich, the chief doctor of the big Moscow clinic, academic Lina Stern, a specialist of physiology. Altogether there were 14 Jews, defendants in the "JAC trial."All the accusations were invented – as for example that the leaders of JAC were going to give up the Crimean peninsula to America. The real "crime" of Jewish writers was their activity in Jewish culture. By preserving Yiddishkeit, even at a very low intensity, they were an obstacle to Stalin's plan to accomplish the Soviet "final solution of Jewish question": total assimilation of the Jews. After three years of interrogation and torture all the Jewish defenders, with the exception of academic Lina Stern, then 73, were sentenced to death. On August 12, 1952, they were shot in the Lubyanka KGB dungeon. Many other Jews, mostly Jewish cultural and leading public figures, were arrested and sent for long terms to forced labor camps. Some of these people died under interrogation.In 1949 famous Yiddish writer Der Nister was arrested, and he died in the Gulag in 1950. Yitzhak Nusinov died in prison. Shmuel Persov and Miriam Zheleznov were shot. Solomon Bregman, the deputy minister, died in prison in January 1953.Larry Pfeffer's memories from Budapest I was 10 yeas old in Budapest when Stalin collapsed and died. I only recall the pervasive sense of mourning in the city. Black flags and black drapes were hanging from the buildings. The newspapers' front page had a picture of Stalin within a thick black frame. As far as I recall on the eve of Purim 1953 I acted in a purimshpiel in the Orthodox community complex auditorium. Sundays and afternoons I attended cheder in that complex, from the age of six. Probably this was one of the few operating cheders left in the Communist empire.Periodically I saw the principal, Shlomo Grossberg – in fact, like other students I attended his wedding in the Orthodox complex courtyard. Suddenly there were rumors in the "Kazincy" central Orthodox synagogue that Shlomo had been arrested by the Hungarian secret police. Grown-ups didn't discuss such matters with children.Perhaps they also didn't know what really happened.I recall Shlomo returning to his position maybe eight to 10 months later, and his face showed that he had been through very difficult times. I recently met him in Israel and learned that he was arrested on Purim 1953 for a "Zionist" show trial. I didn't want to ask him how he was treated, because I didn't want to bring back painful memories.Even as a child I often heard typical Communist propaganda about "Titoist traitors," the "imperialists and their lackeys," and "capitalist warmongers" – especially during the Korean war. In Hungary I was not aware of the scale of the Stalin's terror against Jews, or that it was not limited to the USSR: anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist trials were organized also in the Kremlin's colonies.Only long after I escaped from Hungary in late 1956 did I become aware of the following events.On November 20, 1952, Rudolf Slánský, the second most powerful man in Czechoslovakia, and 13 other leading Czechoslovak communists were arrested and tortured. Two received life sentence and the rest, including Slánský, were shot. Slánský and 10 more of those arrested were Jews. The trumped up accusation was being "Titoists" and "spying" for the "Western capitalists and imperialists" – typical of Moscow-directed show trials of that time.Raoul Wallenberg, who did so much for humanity, fell into the hands of the Russians on January 17, 1945 – a day before the Russians drove out the Germans.Wallenberg disappeared into the Russian dungeons.His fate is still unknown. Reliable and highly respected investigators, such as Professor Irwin Cotler (former Canadian minister of justice), clearly state that Wallenberg was probably alive for decades after his abduction.In 1952/53 a Moscow directed "Wallenberg" and "Zionist" show trial was in preparation in Budapest.Leaders of Hungary's Jewry: Lajos Stöckler, Miklós Domonkos and Dr. László Benedek, were arrested – along with two non-Jews who worked with Wallenberg: Pál Szalai and Károly Szabó. They were tortured to force them to "confess" the "crimes" invented by the "script," according to which in 1945 they "murdered" Wallenberg in Budapest. (Szalai and Szabó rescued many Jews during the Holocaust. At Wallenberg's request Szalai met with German general August Schmidthuber and prevented the murder of Budapest ghetto's 70,000 inhabitants.) Other Jewish leaders were arrested and accused of "Zionist crimes" and "spying for the "capitalists and imperialists."The anti-Semitic "Doctors' Plot" and Budapest show trials stopped and the danger to Jews in the Soviet Union and its colonies was prevented by Stalin's sudden possibly assisted collapse on March 1, 1953, which was Purim, and his subsequent death a few days later.The accused doctors, the accused in Budapest, and probably large number of Jews and others living in Soviet Union and its empire were saved when Stalin collapsed on Purim, 1953.It is suggested to start remembering Purim 1953 in Israel and in Jewish communities around the world.Hopefully the Knesset would have an annual remembrance event and the Chief Rabbinate in Israel would advise synagogues to celebrate the miracle of Purim 1953. It is also hoped that schools in Israel will teach about these events and the immense crimes of international communism, which is estimated to have taken about 94 million lives (The Black Book of Communism – Harvard Press).
Yosef Begun one of the prominent refusnik and Prisoner of Zion in USSR. Spent 9 years in GULAG for defending rights of Soviet Jews to know their national culture. In Israel from 1988. Larry Pfeffer survived the Holocaust in Budapest, escaped from Hungary after the 1956 revolt and made aliyah from New York.
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Is 'basket of cow flaps' an idiom? This is a passage from Elizabeth Strout's book, a story taking place in present day Maine:
Olive can understand why Chris has never bothered having many friends. He is like her that way, can't stand the blah-blah-blah. And they'd just as soon blah-blah-blah about you when your back is turned. "Never trust folks," Olive's mother told her years ago, after someone left a basket of cow flaps by their front door.
Could it be about some local custom ? because there seems nothing else in the story that might explain it.
I have never heard this expression but I am surprised that I did not immediately connect it with "cow flop" which is manure. I googled "what is a cow flap" and found only one site that said it is the same as "cow flop." So I am not sure that they are the same but I think they probably are.
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An elderly man suffering from urine scald and bedsores died a day after arriving at Christchurch Hospital from a rest home that has recently been take over by the district health board.
The 80-year-old man died in Christchurch Hospital on July 31.
He had been living at Wiltshire Lifecare in Rangiora for three months.
In the second week of July the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) appointed a temporary manager to the facility after receiving nine formal complaints since 2010.
The man's son spoke to The Press about his father's death so "other families don't have to go through" what his family did.
He believed his father died of kidney failure and infection.
The man's son, who did not wish to be named and only wanted his dad to be known as Jack, said the family came up against "continual problems" at the rest home.
The family was unhappy about the quality of care Jack received.
"We can't bring him back but we can try and see the systems at Wiltshire changed so other families don't have to go through this."
He said he understood his father was frail and elderly but did not think the last days of his life were "comfortable or pleasant".
"My sister was the first one to get to the hospital and she was really upset at the condition he was in. He had urine scald [redness and irritation caused by urine] and bedsores, and when I saw him the staff at the hospital said the state of the sheet [that was wrapped around him] was absolutely disgusting and they were shocked - you could tell they were shocked."
The man believed his father's room was cold, the facility was dirty and the food was "pretty awful".
"We had issues around his clothes going missing. My mum and I both bought him clothes, but when we visited he wouldn't be in his own gear. He would be wearing ill-fitting summer clothes that were someone else's, and he was never warm enough," he said.
Earlier this year, Jack suffered from a stroke and the Canterbury DHB placed him at Wiltshire.
In a letter sent to The Press from Wiltshire, a staff member said things were "getting worse, not better".
"People are still getting bedsores, they are still losing weight and the food is still of minimal standards," the letter said.
The staff member, who did not wish to be named, claimed residents were neglected, money often went missing and the facility was "filthy".
"Call bells are taken away and tied to the rails outside the patients' rooms so they cannot use them."
There had been more than one scabies outbreak, the letter alleged.
However, another family member of a Wiltshire resident, who also did not wish to be named, said there had been some improvements since the temporary manager started.
"Communication still isn't great, but it's much cleaner and the food has got a bit better too."
The man, whose grandmother lives at Wiltshire, believed people were too scared to be named in the media.
"The DHB won't always be running that place so what happens when they leave and we've all been named and shamed? What would they do to our relatives then? That's the concern for all of us."
Margaret Busby, the owner of Wiltshire Lifecare, yesterday denied claims of neglect and lack of care.
She said there was an incident where some money had gone missing and a call
bell had been removed from one patient's room.
The missing money had been repaid, she said. "[They are] isolated incidents that were rectified once they were discovered."
Busby said Wiltshire had implemented a "range of improvements".
Extra staff, including a cleaner and new clinical manager, had been appointed, she said.
Canterbury DHB chief medical officer of health Nigel Millar said the contract for the temporary manager had been extended until the end of this month.
The board would not comment further until the audit had been finalised.
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- Studio: Universal Pictures
- Release Date: Jul 1, 2009
- Starring: Christian Bale, Johnny Depp
- Summary: No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone—from his girlfriend Billie Frechette to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang thrilled many, Hoover made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One. (Universal Pictures)… Expand
- Director: Michael Mann
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, Romance, Crime
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Score distribution:
Positive: 24 out of 35
Mixed: 11 out of 35
Negative: 0 out of 35
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May 21, 2013Honesty is a rare and often sought after trait in any individual, and when we see Johnny Depp portray one of the most notorious criminals in American history, we see exactly what Depression era bank robber John Dillinger was all about, upfront and straight to the point...honest.
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Dillinger uses his charm to woo Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard) who he is entirely honest with in his robbery prowess. She accepts his life and his determination to be with her, while Dillinger and his friends continue to evade the Bureau of Investigation, leading the hunt is Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) who took down Pretty Boy Floyd and is now on the hunt for Dillinger.
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EvinCAug 12, 2009Boring but the acting is well done. Rent it. see if it's your taste.
Sep 12, 2010when i went to see this movie there was just something about it which made it not an enjoyable experience. the story was fine and well in sequence with the events that occurred in real life with a few changes. however there wasn't enough suspense provided especially since most people will have known what would happen. however the acting does save the movie in most points… Expand
CamilleJul 1, 2009I should have loved this movie. I like and appreciate many of the actors and I love crime dramas and heist movies. This wasn't either of those things. This movie was boring, plain and simple. Performances were wooden, facts were implied rather than explained, and I wasn't rooting for either side. Depp never felt like the anti-hero he was supposed to; I didn't care whether or not he was caught. And Bale didn't inspire me as the hand of righteousness he was supposed to represent; I didn't care whether or not he captured Dillanger. And story and acting aside, the film itself looked like it was shot on a handheld digital camera, which often took me out of the movie theater and made me feel like I was watching the homework assignment of a film student. Plus, the movie was more than two hours long. Had I not been with a group of friends, I would have walked out and saved myself an extra hour of my life. All in all, it wasn't the worst movie I've seen, but I expected more that what was delivered and as an avid movie-goer, I was pretty disappointed. I would have much rather spent my $10 seeing Star Trek again.… Expand
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- Matt Hardy is asking TMZ to pick up on a feel-good story involving him after they published his hotel arrest story last month. Hardy recently met a young fan named Cody Goodman, who is a CHARGE syndrome survivor, at an indie wrestling event. Here's a photo of the two:
– Last summer we noted that former WWE writer Alex Greenfield told The Fight Network in an interview that at one point, Vince McMahon wanted to put a blue dot over Christian's face because it bothered Vince. Greenfield said:
"Right before I started, there was a big show, I think it might have been in Toronto. Christian was just so completely over, and everybody thought he was going to get a push at, I think it was the World Heavyweight Championship at that point. We were on the plane one time shortly after I started, and Vince was just like "God damn, I just don't like his face. His face really bothers me." I was like, "He's ugly, Vince?" "No, it's not that he's ugly, it's just, I don't know, it's ratty! You know what we should do? That Kennedy gimmick." And we're all like, "What?" Some see-on of the Kennedy fortune I guess got arrested for rape in the 1990s at some point. When the woman who was accusing him was on the stand, all of the networks put a blue dot over her face. Vince was like, "God damn, you know what we should do? We should put a blue dot over his face whenever he comes out." It was the flight to Sheffield, England, also the flight where the Spirit Squad idea was invented. This was a whole flight of bad ideas."
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Operating profit in the second quarter of 2013 was down compared with the second quarter of 2012 when the shipping industry was in less troubled circumstances.
Operating profit for the second quarter totalled USD 106 million (USD 139 million) based on a total income of USD 903 million (USD 972 million). Compared with the previous quarter, the operating profit was up 37% while the revenue increased 4%. The figures were down 23% and 7% respectively, when comparing with a historically strong period in the shipping segment in the second quarter of 2012.
"We have seen higher activity levels in our main business segments. The major driver is a 13% increase in volumes transported deep sea. Combined with a sound development in the cargo and trade mix and gains from operational efficiency initiatives, Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA's total income and operating profit improved by 6% and 22% respectively quarter on quarter," says Thomas Wilhelmsen, group CEO in WWH, when summing up the second quarter.
He continued: "The income from our maritime services activities was stable quarter on quarter and up 37% in earnings lifted by a substantially stronger margin for ships services. The technical solutions area continued to grow with increased order intake, while ship management had a slight reduction in vessels on full technical management."
Commenting on future prospects, Mr Wilhelmsen says: "We anticipate that volumes to be shipped by WWASA will remain at present level in the second half of the year. We will therefore continue to actively optimise and adjust tonnage to market demand. A generally weak shipping market impacts owners' purchasing capabilities and put pressure on demand and operating margin, especially in the maritime services segment.
The gradual increase in newbuild ordering activity and the global merchant fleet is, however, expected to continue to drive demand for maritime services."
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Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA offers global car and ro-ro customers high quality sea transportation and integrated logistic solutions from factory to dealer through its operating companies.
The shipping segment in which the group's and the joint venture's shipping activities are carried out, includes shipowning, chartering, transportation and consultancy services.
The logistics segment includes logistics services conducted by the group and the joint ventures such as terminal services, technical services, inland distribution and supply chain management.
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Top ship broker Clarkson is seeking to acquire Norwegian brokerage and investment bank RS Platou for 281.2 million pounds ($441 million) in a deal that would create
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Imagine you are an IT professional or executive, and your teams are running a data center with 1,000s of machines and applications. You know that there is a set of 10-15 year old applications running business critical functions on SUN hardware and the Solaris operating systems.
These applications, their OS and the underlying infrastructure are old. In fact, measured in "IT-years," where the lifespan of an infrastructure is 3-5 years, they are ancient. By my calculations, an IT year is equivalent to 20 people-years, making these systems 200-300 years old ...and ....
... stranded on an island.
It is not a question of if one of these servers will break or die; it is a take-it-to-the-bank-matter that these mission critical application servers will die. The only question is when.
There is no replacement hardware available. You can't even find these servers on eBay anymore. The poor old servers can not access new SAN based storage. The cost of re-engineering the applications so that they can play in a supportable IT world is huge.
I have talked with many people in this situation and simply put, they do not sleep well at night.
Here's their situation in a nutshell:
- Fact: Extremely valuable business application runs on infrastructure that is soon to fail.
- Fact: Huge pain and lost dollars to the business will result when these servers fail so there is a very tangible and measurable need for them to be fixed ASAP.
- Fact: I have talked with some IT folks who say that if their custom Solaris applications ever went down, it would take them weeks, months, or even years to recover.
- Fact: These applications are integrated with other systems and do very specific tasks tuned for the business, making them poor candidates for prebuilt alternatives.
At this point four choices are available for these companies:
1.) Rewrite/port the applications
2.) Complain loudly so that when it hits you can say "I told you so"
3.) Run ... find a job at a cloud company where systems are only a couple of years old
4) Take AppZero's "virtual Viagra" to scoop and move your apps from the old OS to a new OS with zero re-write
The AppZero capsule, taken once, will last more than 4 hours without requiring any re-engineering or any trip to the doctor.
AppZero = engineering-free Solaris application modernization -
How do we move old Solaris applications to new environments without re-engineering? We separate the application from the OS and put it in a very portable capsule.
Just to be clear, separating an application from the OS is not something you can easily explain to your mother. I know. I've tried. Why these old applications are stuck on old hardware and how AppZero can separate and move them to new hardware in a matter of hours excites me, but Mom? When I hear, "That's nice, Greg," I know she has no idea what I am talking about. So instead we talk about how Jameson is doing in football this year. (btw, he's doing real well, thanks).
AppZero builds software that enables IT and software developers to create, control, and maintain virtual application appliances (VAA). The VAA decouples an application from the operating system (OS). It encapsulates that application, along with all of its required underlying infrastructure, so that it can then easily be transferred and run on a different system.
I sometimes compare the VAA capsule to the gelatin that surrounds everyday medicine you'd find in the average medicine cabinet. The gelatin isn't the medication, it surrounds it. In a similar manner, the VAA is not the application, but contains or encapsulates it. This capsule can then be picked up and moved to another system with very little effort or interruption.
VAA vs the cost to rewrite or port an application
An AppZero customer who modernized a few dozen applications with our technology recently spent a good 45 minutes telling me about the bidding process with IBM, Accenture and Wipro to "refactor" the systems that he later moved via our application virtualization. The baseline number was $7M and 4+ years.
Our "capsule" solution was less then 4% of that number and implemented in 9 weeks. Maybe I need to talk to my new board members about raising the price of this tool we have for Oracle and its newest crowd of faithful users?
Many of our prospects have been talking to us about how they can remain faithful to Solaris while still getting the thrill of running their applications on a "newer model". They are confident that Mark will inject some new life into the Solaris platform.
In the meantime, long-time, faithful Solaris users can take advantage of "capsules" that allow them to share in this exciting new life today without having to divorce themselves from the applications that they have come to love and rely upon.
To quote Viagra's tagline, "This is the age of taking action. And getting the answers you want. So you can get on your way." AppZero couldn't agree more. Greg O'Connor, AppZero CEO.
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