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Slow Oracle Merger Leads To Outflow of Sun Projects, Coders
An anonymous reader writes "Sun Microsystems might have had a chance if the Oracle merger had gone through quickly, but between the DoJ taking its time and the European Commission, which seems to get off on abusing American firms, just plain dragging its feet, that won't happen now. As Sun twists in the wind, unable to defend itself, and Oracle is unable to do anything until the deal closes, IBM is pretty much tearing Sun to shreds. By the time this deal closes, there won't be much left for Oracle. This is not how a Silicon Valley legend should end."
How should they end?
#shutdown -h now
In a cathartic orgy of violence in the third act, in which everyone dies except the narrator, who is finally revealed to be an obscure character who was shown briefly in the second episode and everyone forgot about in the meantime.
Oh, sorry, I was reading TVTropes.
That wouldn't end a sun box
It will if the Sun box is running Linux :D
But my post would have been funnier with the Solaris syntax. For my oversight I should be spanked by Jen from The IT Crowd.
You lose your geek card, please hand it over.
NEVER misquote Yoda.
My Babylon
Please can you tell me where I can buy a lively hood, as my old one is all worn and discoloured.
I hate printers.
Misquoting Yoda cry baby Jesus makes.
A triple-digit slashdotter blowing a Yoda quote red-lines my cognitive dissonance meter.
Slashdot user 1049312 tells Slashdot user 926 to hand in his geek card. I never thought I'd see the day.
Although really, the correct syntax is "Geek card you lose. Hand it over you must."
I am officially gone from