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Sun's Linux Exec Departs
HyperbolicParabaloid writes "The NY Times (free reg blah blah) has an article about the departure of Sun's no.2 exec, but also mentions that
Stephen DeWitt, the vice president of an important business unit that leads Sun's efforts with the Linux operating system, quietly left Sun
on Friday, the company confirmed today."" And the question is: How will this affect projects like OpenOffice release and the on-again, off-again McNealy Linux relationship.
Sun/wipro was the driving force behind GNOME 2 development.
So how will this affect GNOME 2? We can expect more delays presumably.
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What are you smoking, boy? Solaris is a focussed OS that's consistent and scalable. Not a collection of contributed code that creates conflict as often as synergy, and won't scale on big iron. And if you don't think people need big iron, go talk to some CTO's who are buying E15K's.
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
Java is fucked. That is all there is to it. Its a lame language of the week thats been replaced by a different language of the week (c#) just like modula 2 trashed pascal. In 10 years java will be like Ada. It was trendy once but now dead. sun needs to understand that but they are clueless and so they will kill off a few tens of thousands of jobs but they aren't my job so I could care less.
My attemtps to get sun clued in to modern realilty have failed. I've invited sun reps to a number of socal meetings of technical people but they never show so screw them. I've been running sun hardware for over a decade and some these markting idiots have been in diapers before I ran my first sun box but they want to fuck me over, but in the months to come they may get to worry where their next meal is going to come from. I don't have that problem and I'll jump the sun ship when needed.
God they are F*cking clueless.
I don't normally post just watch. You should do more research other than post conspiracies on this site. SkUNk will not give their source to their kernel and the reasons are:
/. and saw the new release on OpenSun, FreeSun, EasySun etc. (Oops I think I just shot myself in the foot, again.) People would burn their licenses like a bad habit.
* SkUNk has too much pride. $McNealy$ is too much of a pea-brain. (Gates will clown forever and ever and ever.)
* How would Scott feel if he woke up tomorrow and went to
* Its not like if SkUNk was a startup. They are an established international company. SkUNk is the M$ of *nx. (OK, lets give our source so small companies can offer better support and charge less. Yes, this is the solution its so brilliant thanks emil.)
* Believe it or not, but SkUNk's intentions regarding cobalt are to kill cobalt and get people's mind off linux. Look at vasoftware, what you think SkUNk had nothing to do with them jumping off the hardware market. Sometimes you have to take these risks even if it means to spend millions on a company to kill. This is not a conspiracy it is so true. Cobalt has not been profitable for the longest and SkUNk laid off almost all Cobalt employees.