Thursday May 19, 2005 JavaOne Bloggers Social?
You may remember that I and others got together for drinks at the Thirsty Bear ar JavaOne in 2003 and 2004. Is anyone arranging anything for 2005? If not I'll try to fix something for Monday evening...
Posted by webmink
( May 19 2005, 03:31:28 PM PDT )
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Out of date
I must say I am fascinated by the news that IBM and Red Hat have teamed up to try to get Solaris users to switch away to Red Hat. I could have understood that strategy back a few years ago when Sun had dropped the ball and had no x86 or x64 strategy for Unix, leaving a gap in the market big enough to drive a red bus through, let alone a red hat.
But today, when Sun both makes some of the best x64 hardware on the market and offers Solaris 10 on terms (open source, no $ to use, no platform switch when you go live, binary compatible with all previous offerings since v2.6, same architecture on x32, x64 and SPARC etc etc) that make Red Hat's offerings on IBM's old iron look rather shabby, I wonder what's going on? Has IBM not noticed that the world has changed and that Sun is not a lame duck waiting for their cart to come round to pick up the dead and wounded? Maybe we should send them another invitation to join the OpenSolaris community - after all, IBM's proprietary software is reputed to run better on Solaris :-)
Posted by webmink
( May 19 2005, 07:28:17 AM PDT )
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