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Sun's Last Stand
non writes "Wired has an article by Gary Revlin in the July edition about the current state of affairs at Sun. He attributes half of Sun's problems to failure to recognize the emergence of Linux, and the other half to their failure to make up with Microsoft, and finishes up with a server price comparison. An interesting read."
Apple should offer them 25% of their current stock price in a buy-out offer.
Burn baby burn. Wait what does this mean for the UltraSPARC I just bought! Doh.
They won't be doomed until they start an insane court battle with someone. I don't think the Java wars really qualified for that.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Stiff-legged and hunched over, Scott McNealy limps slowly to a wheat-colored couch in the corner of his office. His eyes are bleary, and a wrinkly wattle is forming about his neck. In his semi-exhausted state, McNealy looks almost frail. There was a time not that long ago when the smash-mouthed, overamped CEO of Sun Microsystems would have been shuffling along like this because of a nasty collision during a no-holds-barred intramural hockey game. Instead, the culprit is a long international flight home two days ago following a week-and-a-half swing through Asia. "I'm getting old," groans the 48-year-old McNealy.
Goddamn, when I started reading that, I thought it was one of those tasty Slashdot porn stories, got sort of dissapointed by what followed.
It does come as any surprise. The Sun will surely fail once it exhausts all of its fuel. Yes, it will take billions perhaps trillions of years, but no energy source is infinite no matter what the marketing hype says. All that remains is for Netcraft to confirm it.
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I have a lot of experience in MS-DOS. I don't know what this Linux thing is, even though I have to use it at work. When my boss asks me to recommend a server, I would most definately recommend a MS-DOS server over the Linux box simply because I have far more experience with MS-DOS than Linux.
Think of something (a product, a company, an idea, whatever). Now presume that something is dying. Now search the web for that idea until you find an article stating that particular something is not doing well. Rephrase that article into a few sentences. Now tack on a suffix from one of these standard Slashdot patterns:
1. "It's an interesting read."
2. Write a short anecdote in first person. E.g. "I never did like that something."
3. Add a rhetorical question. E.g. "Can you believe it?"
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Wow, that's the first time I've ever heard torque used when talking about computers.
:-)
Cool. I'm gonna use that now.
Actually, it just happened. You have seven minutes to evacuate...
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