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Sun's Last Stand

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nautical-twilight dept.

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."

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  1. For payback by BoomerSooner · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:For payback by elmegil · · Score: 2, Funny

      The FA, which I did R, was all about how Sun is on its last legs. That only helps fuel rumors that we're going to try and find some sugar daddy or momma to save us. Which all of it is BS.

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    2. Re:For payback by TheAncientHacker · · Score: 4, Funny

      Exactly what does IBM get by buying out Sun?

      A licensed version of Unix after Monday...

  2. We knew this all along. by Jerk+City+Troll · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  3. Re:Sun Doesn't appeal to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Ehh.. no... by CptnHarlock · · Score: 3, Funny
    Hey, Homer's the typical American, fat, loud, stupid and lazy! He does ridiculously stupid things every week, and by next week everything's back to normal, so he never faces the consequences of his actions!
    I beg to differ; that would be Micro$oft...

    Cheers...

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  5. This is what happens by Fjord · · Score: 4, Funny

    when you're the dot in "dot com". Dot coms crash, you crash.

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    -no broken link
  6. Torque? by tacokill · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, that's the first time I've ever heard torque used when talking about computers.

    Cool. I'm gonna use that now. :-)

  7. Re:You know.... by the_consumer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, it just happened. You have seven minutes to evacuate...

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