On 21.04.2010 14:15, Mike DeMarco wrote: >> >> So, folks, again, GET USED TO the new communication, >> and DO NEVER EVER draw >> WRONG conclusions! >> >> It's so easy! > > Normally I would agree, but I know for a fact that this lack of communication > about a way forward with Sun products is driving businesses away. Every > businesses that I talk to is now looking for a migration path away from > Solaris due to, UNCERTAINTY in the direction. > > Oracle had nine months to plan a strategy for Solaris and they did just that, > SAY NOTHING TILL IT DIES. We have are RED HAT AND THAT IS THAT. > > So you can look at it with your rose color glasses but when you take them off > and look at all the businesses that are looking for consultants to migrate > from Solaris to AIX, Migrate from Solaris to Linux. You don't need to be a > good poker player to read the tells that Oracle is presenting. > > Even the Sales reps are frustrated with Oracle as they can get no information > from them either. They do not even have Non Disclosure Agreement information > any longer. > > I have lived in the Sun world for the past 20 years and find Oracles > treatment worse than what we would have gotten from IBM.
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