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Sun to Build Alternative Desktop ?
murthydn writes " At "Sun Tech Days 2003" Developer Conference in India ,Sun Microsystems Inc Chairman, President and CEO Scott McNealy exhorted Indian software programmers to build Sun's "desktop computer" as an alternative system to Microsoft software architecture .The complete article is here" 'Cuz if there is one thing that will save Sun, its a new desktop platform. *cough*
Well...
I for one am not overly excited for a speedy Java desktop environement. *cough*
Anyone know if Sun gonna code this is anything but Java?
Posting useless rant since 2003.
Scoot 'ballmer' Mc Nealy said to indians : "developers! developers! developers!"
( http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html )
That sounds good, since it will lead to competition. So this should help stimulate our lagging economy right?
... oh. Well, thanks for remembering your roots...
Sun Microsystems Inc Chairman, President and CEO Scott McNealy today exhorted Indian software programmers to build Sun's "desktop computer" as an alternative system to Microsoft software architecture.
"I only speak the truth"
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INDows.
I can never trust them again after this.
Note to self: get smarter troll to guard door.
or... " We're the 'top' in 'Desktop'! "
sun seems to jump from gimic to gimic a little too frequently for a healthy company. Does anyone have a link to a history file of Sun's marketing campaigns?
This is kinda spooky. McNealy is trying to fight the Empire by recruiting some far-away mercenaries to build him clones of something the Empire already has. It sounds like he's been watching too much Star Wars, and not the good stuff, either.
Mongolian Hordes technique n. [poss. from the Sixties counterculture expression `Mongolian clusterfuck' for a public orgy] Development by gang bang. Implies that large numbers of inexperienced programmers are being put on a job better performed by a few skilled ones (but see bazaar). Also called `Chinese Army technique'; see also Brooks's Law.
gang bang n. The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an attempt to wedge a great many features into a product in a short time. Though there have been memorable gang bangs (e.g., that over-the-weekend assembler port mentioned in Steven Levy's "Hackers"), most are perpetrated by large companies trying to meet deadlines; the inevitable result is enormous buggy masses of code entirely lacking in orthogonality. When market-driven managers make a list of all the features the competition has and assign one programmer to implement each, the probability of maintaining a coherent (or even functional) design goes infinitesimal. See also firefighting, Mongolian Hordes technique, Conway's Law.
Would those be Big Indian or Little Indian programmers?
-twb
Sun has repeated this for how many years now??
Those of you who fall for this again will probably also fall for this everytime too, "Wolf!! Wolf!!!!"
Evilman
Do you have Sun Rays in your bathroom stalls?
I would instantly convert from agnosticism to the religion of any deity who would strike down with wrath the people who are so dorky they use their laptops while taking a shit.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman