SE Thought

Saturday April 15, 2006

Changes in Sun I'm amazed at how fast time flies. Since my first blog, it's been 1+ year. A lot of positive development (sure, there are negative ones. You'd expect a few in a 30000-strong company), which makes me feel more confident and happy about the company I'm with. Hopefully the stock will go up :-)

Now, this is just a view from an SE (System Engineer) or ITA (IT Architect). I've no reportee, so I'm just a node here, so this is a personal opinion from the ground.

Here are some changes that I'm happy about:

• No more "Sparc is slow". I've not got this message for a while now. With US IV+, my customers are pretty happy.
• No more "Sun not serious about X64 or Opteron". My customers begin to accept and mix Sparc and Opteron, so long both run Solaris. This makes it easier for me to architect a solution as I have more choices.
• No more "Solaris 10 is new". Now that my favourite OS been out for almost 1.5 years, my customers have stopped questioning me. In fact, some began telling me that they are comfortable with it, without me asking for it. Now, all my solutions are Solaris 10, unless customers need to run older softwares. No more Solaris 9.
• T2000. It's satisfying to share T2000 and Niagara with customers. I think it's been a long time since we have big lead over other chip.