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Wednesday, March 18. 2009

It needs a takeover rumour about Sun and IBM to read some pro Sun comments. The article "IBM opens talks to buy Sun Microsystems" is full of positive comments about Sun and Suns technology. I´ve read it twice as i didn´t believed so much positive stuff in a single article from TheRegister.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle at 12:06 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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I wouldn't have expected anything less of Chris Mellor - he's a hack of the laziest, lowest order.

I got a kick out his typos as well, eg "This transition will be eased by Solaris running on both Sun and IBN servers."

Hmm, IBN....sounds familiar...rofl.

#1 Dave on 2009-03-18 12:36 (Reply)

Where do you life if you wonder about that? SUN did not have any real problems with her reputation. SUNs problems are to make money with that what they have and to care about his products. You cant give all of your employes big cars und ferrarie notebooks if you dont have the money. But i guess register didnt have a t6300. Nice, cheap and buggy like hell.

As an example how sun works.
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5345333&start=0&tstart=0

nice new solaris release. ZFS Console is broken since month and nobody will work on this bug. You customer wait and sun think that it is OK. The nose of sun is very high but inside they have not enough engineers to work on all the bugs.

#2 Pere.Z on 2009-03-18 12:39 (Reply)

I know that we don´t have a problem with our reputation. But the Register isn´t known for writing positive articles about Sun ... to say it mildly.

#2.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-03-18 12:48 (Reply)

when ashley vance used to be with the reg, their reporting on sun was actually informative and balanced. not anymore.

#3 bro on 2009-03-18 14:03 (Reply)

If IBM actually buys Sun, there is no point in sticking with Solaris (for me the best platform [solaris 10]). Might return to OpenBSD. Let's hope the rumour is wrong and if true, the government authorities will disallow such move.

#4 Mario Medjeral on 2009-03-19 03:03 (Reply)

It says in the register:

It's become a truism that Schwartz has failed to protect Sun's proprietary high-end server business, failed to capitalise on the StorageTek product line of tape libraries and disk arrays and, the most damaging, failed to monetise Sun's vast numbers of free software downloaders. Will IBM do any better?

This could mean convergence? Why can't sun simply purchase IBM? Solaris may be Polaris?

http://polaris.blastwave.org/ is currently down. I think sun has the better software. My IBM favourite is rational rose purify plus. Please keep me informed on twitter. Im curious.

#5 Morten Gulbrandsen (Homepage) on 2009-03-19 04:12 (Reply)

the last entries on SUN CEO's blog are very interesting and I can't think it is a vision that IBM can share right now. Anyway, it shows that SUN has great stuff in stock. Hope that it can sell it as soon as possible with great features like deduplication on ZFS.

#6 h4mm3r (Homepage) on 2009-03-19 09:07 (Reply)

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