I totally agree. Selling out to IBM is a huge mistake on soo many levels. I encourage people to sign my petition ASAP and pass along the link to fellow supporters of help keeping Sun independent:
http://www.petitiononline.com/smi09/petition.html *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Anon Y Mous <system5u...@yahoo.com> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2009 12:29:28 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun The part that bothers me the most was where he said: "I think the stuff on Solaris and SPARC is likely to see EOLs over time through the IBM acquisition. " WE CAN'T ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN!!! Where's Scott McNealy and his golf clubs when you need him? Maybe he can pummel some sense into the rest of the Sun executives. He's still the majority share holder in Sun right? How can they sell the entire company without his permission? I'm sure McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim, Eric Schmidt, Bill Joy and Vinod Khosla have enough cash between the five of them that they could buy up enough shares to block this IBM takeover if they really wanted to. In bad economic times like these, Sun needs to focus on it's military and government customers and make money that way. The United States is at war, and I'm sure it won't be too difficult to justify buying more SPARC servers with Trusted Solaris on them to expand the military / government secure computing infrastructure to fight terrorism. If Sun downsized to the point where they only focused on their government customers and put all their effort into developing even more advanced security features for Trusted Solaris, they could probably still make enough money to survive on those contracts alone. Also, if we could get the entire U.S. Federal government and the medical industry to replace all their insecure Windows desktop machines with green, energy efficient, Sun Ray thin clients that connect to secure SPARC servers running Solaris, and if they did all of their office work in OpenOffice or Star Office, then that alone would be enough income to keep Sun afloat for the next 10 years and save billions of dollars in tax payer money (which is going to unworthy companies like Microsoft and Dell). Why isn't anybody talking to their senators and congressmen about doing this? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
