The main issues I have with IBM:- They always proved that their product line don't take developer productivity has an input. Developers time is a big revenue stream for IBM global services and others and so they have negative incentive to actually reduce our suffering :( - Sun has the worst sales department of any big company I had interaction with. But, IBM sales tactics (deception, black mail, pressure, ...) always disgusted me! I'm not naive and I know the sharks but IBM amazing ability to sell bad products is worrying me for the future of the amazing Sun technology offering.
Anyway, let's hope it ends smoothly, Fred. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Joe Data <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 19, 12:29 am, Steven Herod <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you see the possibility that Solaris could supplant Linux in the > > IBM suite? > > I don't know. For all the talk by Sun about the fabulous Solaris > uptake in the market, it sure doesn't make a lot of money: $42 million > in the last quarter, -29% year-to-year. And that number includes > virtualization and management software (http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/ > investor/earnings_releases/Q209_SLD.pdf, slide 6). Maybe IBM would > support Solaris if there's money in it, but they don't really need > another OS, they already have Linux. The Register thinks IBM would > just move the SPARC Solaris stuff to AIX using the emulating software > it recently bought (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/19/ > ibm_sun_deal_comment/). > > > -- http://www.jfrog.org/ http://freddy33.blogspot.com/ http://nothingisinfinite.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
