[csw-maintainers] Ouchies

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Fri Nov 14 20:12:15 CET 2008


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:57:17AM -0800, Markus Mayer wrote:
> 
> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081114/sun_microsystems_layoffs.html
> 
> I don't know how accurate this assessment is, but it doesn't sound
> too good:
> 
> "[...]Sun's latest woes have ramped up speculation that one of the most
> storied names in computing could be snapped up dirt-cheap by a bigger
> rival. Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., and Dell Inc. are all possible
> suitors."

Ugh.

well, it's not too surprising, when they are wasting time trying to make
[Solaris next] "Just like linux", instead of just taking 
"the good bits" from it, and combining it with what makes people like 
Sun/Solaris over linux.

Arg.



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