Hello, interesting blog, I see you are now working for IBM (since May), the company you went to quite a great deal of effort to run down. What about updates since this job change? Or is this a Sun only blog and not actually your personal blog, iow a Sun marketing blog so all the personal stuff was just window dressing? I do Oracle/Unix system integration type work and used to give Solaris training and enjoyed my Sun days tremendously but of late most of my projects have been IBM based becasue of the superior performance, current one on P5 IBM 570s, and they have performed very impressively, much better than the previous project running an IBM 690 on P4s but I think a lot due to disk configuration as well - the old thing about Disk IO on big multi-user systems being the main bottleneck. Interesting thing is it is often the support capability that determines the client's view of a vendor and on the current project IBM are not so hot but on the previous projects in different countries they were good. The current client has a lot of old Sun stuff and the datacentre people love Sun and are having a hard time switching. Interesting what loyalties a brand name can engender. So how about some positive IBM rhetoric or do you now have an IBM biased blog somewhere else that syays 'This is a personal weblog, I do not speak for my employer.' at the bottom too??? I am mostly just stirring cos I am inquisitive so don't take it too personal.

Posted by Peter on November 27, 2005 at 09:47 PM EST #