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.

Comments

Typical lies...

[Free Bird]

Dear Sam,

IBM and Sun have a long history of partnering. We've worked on Java together, more recently you joined us in the Liberty Alliance, helping to drive standards around network identity. We, and our customers, appreciate constructive partnership.

As you're no doubt aware, Sun is set to ship the newest release of our Solaris operating system, Solaris 10. It's the most secure OS the world has ever seen

This is where I stopped reading.

Re:Typical lies...

[Allen Zadr]

No... He stopped reading, because he went right out to buy a Sun machine with the most secure OS the world has ever seen (although, I'm quite certain there are more than a few AS/400 enthusiasts who would be quick to disagree, their opinions don't count anyway).

Dear competitor,

[stupidfoo]

Help us make money and give your customers an alternative to your products.

Thanks,

Sun

Re:Blog, anyone?

[British]

Then: teenage girls arguing with each other via blogs
Now: CEOS of multi-million dollar corporations arguing with each other via blogs /Emma Bunton

Next step - LiveJournal

[khasim]

Then: teenage girls arguing with each other via blogs
Now: CEOS of multi-million dollar corporations arguing with each other via blogs /Emma Bunton

Tomorrow - CIEIO's with LiveJournal accounts.

"iBM iz such loosers. i not let them on my Freinds list. ha ha! i tell them to port DB2 and i might think about it. Loosers. Sam will not tell me my poetry sux N E more now. i write what i feel. i want to ask the Q T girl out but i am shy. Maybe i will send her some of my poetry. iBM better port WebSphere 2 or i still keep them off my Freinds list. ha ha! Take that you loosers!"

Easy come-back

[Tablizer]

IBM should simply say, "We don't feel it in our best interest to begin supporting a dying product.", and leave it at that.

The real deal

[codepunk]

IBM to SUN: We want you to Open Source Java
Sun to IBM: Get Bent we are keeping it to ourselves

Few months goes by ...

SUN to IBM: Please oh Please make your stuff run
on slowarus.
IBM to SUN: Get Bent we are keeping it to ourselves.

See how simple things are!

Re:Blog, anyone?

[nomadic]

Then: teenage girls arguing with each other via blogs
Now: CEOS of multi-million dollar corporations arguing with each other via blogs

omg u would not believe what I heard at the conference last night!!!! the pres of oracle (she was wearing like this skirt that was like so cute omg!!) said that she's like totally adopting a 10b51 plan and selling like so much stock!!! and i was all like you gotta be careful cuz mr. donaldson over at the sec is like totally a dork and will be all up in her face about whether she had like inside information!! god he's such a tool lol!!

Re:Stating the obvious...

[pchan-]

well, the funny think about the solaris killall command is it doesn't take any arguments. it just kills all processes that you own. in the best case scenario you just killed your login shell (and, y'know, oracle, and anything else you're running at the moment). but if you're root, well, you're going to have to go press the power button on the machine after the init process is killed.