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Sun Chief Calls Out IBM, Demands Compatibility
downbad writes "Sun's President, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday published an Open Letter to the CEO of IBM, Sam Palmisano, in which he alluded to "behavior reminiscent of an IBM history many CIOs would like to forget" - a reference to Sun's frustration that IBM isn't supporting Solaris 10 with WebSphere, DB2, Tivoli, Rational and MQSeries products. In his "Dear Sam" letter - circulated via his blog - Schwartz refers first to the "long history of partnering" between Sun and IBM, and claims Sun customers have made repeated calls to IBM about having the choice to run IBM products on Solaris 10." *cough* Kettle, meet Pot.
IBM has their own port for AIX, mainframes, etc. Why isn't Sun supporting them?
As to Java on all platforms, ask the FreeBSD people how they feel.
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Last I heard the new FS api was a feature of Solaris itself, not a publicly purchasable seperate product like websphere, db2, tivoli etc... Now if you mentioned Java, thats another story.
So out of context your comment makes perfect sense, but when you put it in context of what Sun is asking, you sir, look like a bafoon.
No, sir, I do not.
The idea of the new Solaris ZFS is to export functions to programs - to allow programs to better search the file system.
That capability will only be available on Solaris - thus rendering any program that uses those features Solaris only.
A program that is Solaris only is not compatible.
Sun, by not making at least the API available to other OSs, is encouraging incompatibility.
Therefore, Sun is not following their own advice to IBM.
Therefore, they are hypocrites.
And since you are unable to follow such a chain of reasoning without having it explained to you, and yet you chastize me, you sir, are a moron.
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Why? Once Sun uses up their cash, they'll be out of business anyway. Come on, they are selling x86 PCs now. They are going the way of SGI.
"Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots." - Jonathan Nolan, Memento Mori
The word you need to learn is "churn". Here's some help: I'm talking about stabilizing Linux by adding Solaris tech, which is superstable. IBM is hardly stabilizing AIX by hybridization with Linux, is it? Oh, and "personal attack" means criticizing a person's actions which are irrelevant to their argument, unlike my criticizing Schwartz for throwing his weight around at competitors, rather than leading his own company in technology or marketing.
Those are all obvious points you somehow get backwards. What kind of preconceptions are keeping you from reading posts accurately?
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