Scary Things Part II
Last week, I blogged about the top “scary” things that we hear are keeping CIOs awake at night. Part two of that list follows.
- Merging Complexity
A merger is in the works, and the target company uses multiple OS platforms and a different range of systems and peripherals from what we use.
Painting yourself into a technological corner can impose costly limitations down the road. Keep your options open. Solaris OS is compatible with 791 systems (716 x86/x64 systems, 75 SPARC systems) and 557 components—far more than any other open source OS. And, with Solaris, you can even run Linux applications in Solaris containers unmodified.
- Getting Left Behind
When the next technology wave comes—even for Web 2.0—we'll be left behind with our disjointed, siloed infrastructure.
Compliment your existing infrastructure with open, flexible components that are built to scale, like our SOA tools, for integrating technologies of the future.
- License Headaches
Keeping service contracts, licenses, and security patches current is a huge task; Are we even using all of the software that we license? Am I paying more than I need to?
Look to new business models such as subscriptions, and solutions that allow you to service your complete infrastructure in a manageable, cost-effective way—like using Sun's Update Connection Enterprise.
- Tools That Don't Work Together
Developers want to take advantage of open-source IDEs like Eclipse. But at the end of the day, we need these projects to be integratable and that can't be guaranteed if projects are based on the various Eclipse tool subsets.
Sun's complete toolset is available to developers at no cost. It's a consistent approach, based on the open source, standards-based NetBeans IDE, and designed to work together.
- What To Do About Open Source
We thought that Linux was the answer to how we could capitalize on open source. But, now we're feeling as though we are getting as locked-in as we were before.
See responses to #6 (Solaris) and #7 (open, flexible components).
Our goal is to partner with customers to address these concerns. Last week's StartUp Camp is one example of how we're helping to foster more community growth and participation to solve business problems with choice, flexibility and innovation.
Take a look at some of the topics covered in this inaugural event, which brought together entrepreneurs, technologists and VCs to discuss and share ideas. The attendee-driven “unconference” included a cool Speed Geeking contest for startups to engage in multiple five-minute elevator pitch conversations, after which participants judged “best startup idea”. First and second place winners won Sun equipment valued at $12,000 and $8,000 respectively. Congratulations to the winners! Zoomr, a global photo sharing site, took top honors followed by an “untitled” fashion design start-up. Also announced, start-ups can now enjoy the benefits of Sun's Startup Essentials Program and receive discounts for building their business on secure, scalable, high-performance Sun infrastructure. Check back for more details on this new program and others.
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04:31PM Nov 09, 2006
by Peder Ulander in Sun |
