I had the privilege of supporting Sun servers for a couple years out of school. They are by far the most robust pieces of hardware I've ever worked with. I remember vividly being introduced to the 1280r as it was the largest server we had in the lab. As a young and fairly inexperienced technician that thing both wowed me and scared the crap out of me. Sun's awesome old hardware prompted me to obtain a 280r, but I due to life and kids I haven't had time to do anything with it! I imagine it would do quite well as a web server or a front end to a storage "farm". But alas...time and money.
Mod this insightful!
I think you've hit the nail on the head. The average user knows nothing about the browser, just what they want to see. I think since Google is so highly used, if the browser choice is labeled "Google Chrome" a vast majority of users will click on that. On the other hand if it is just labeled "Chrome", then you're right back to everybody clicking the blue "e".
As a former partner with Sun, I strongly believe that Sun's insistence on using an Oracle out of the box solution to for its company wide sales to service system is what caused its demise. This software never worked and increased case handling times in the call center. That decreased customer satisfaction to such a point that customers started going elsewhere. I also believe Sun should have never gotten into the x86 server/workstation market. Instead they should have focused their energies behind their flagship SPARC lines and actually produced a processor of their own rather than buying Fujitu's technology. Overall I think Sun offers superior products, but their customer support system is rather terrible.
What about IE, Chrome, Opera, and Safari users? As of now this solution only benefits a small portion of users. I don't see this being widely implemented at all.
What were they thinking? I have seen nothing but horrors with Oracle's front end applications. But seriously...how difficult is it to actually implement a decent payroll system?
I'm surprised nobody's sued them yet. If they want to check your background, they don't need your passwords to do that. With the exception of Yahoo!, most of the other companies work pretty well with law officials. Either way, I would not ever apply for a job with them.
Sounds pretty normal for a call center. At my last job management got excited if a case was open for over two weeks regardless if the issue was resolved or not. That's what I call great customer service!
Whoa - I was born in the '80s and I still think vi is my most valuable tool! What else are you gonna use if your box is hosed and you have to edit those config files that you screwed up?
Apple's Mail works just as well as the Gmail interface because it also recognizes the conversations. I guess I will have to wait to see if there really is any benefit to using Gmail's client over Apples.
Thank you for pointing this out. Sun is not close sourcing existing portions of MYSQL. Just adding new features for the customers who will pay an arm and a leg for it. It may not be the smartest move in scoring points with the open source community, but it gives them more leverage with their high end customers.
I started my education at a liberal arts school. The subjects that were in my major, I focused a lot of time and energy in, but I didn't give a crap of the gen-ed courses. I finally switched to a specialized school to finish up and did very well. Don't waste your time with stuff that you'll have to force yourself to care about.
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I had the privilege of supporting Sun servers for a couple years out of school. They are by far the most robust pieces of hardware I've ever worked with. I remember vividly being introduced to the 1280r as it was the largest server we had in the lab. As a young and fairly inexperienced technician that thing both wowed me and scared the crap out of me. Sun's awesome old hardware prompted me to obtain a 280r, but I due to life and kids I haven't had time to do anything with it! I imagine it would do quite well as a web server or a front end to a storage "farm". But alas...time and money.
What 3rd party DNS managers would you suggest (or have you used)?
NBC Announced this morning that they will be airing the coverage of the impact live on the Today Show.
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Mod this insightful! I think you've hit the nail on the head. The average user knows nothing about the browser, just what they want to see. I think since Google is so highly used, if the browser choice is labeled "Google Chrome" a vast majority of users will click on that. On the other hand if it is just labeled "Chrome", then you're right back to everybody clicking the blue "e".
As a former partner with Sun, I strongly believe that Sun's insistence on using an Oracle out of the box solution to for its company wide sales to service system is what caused its demise. This software never worked and increased case handling times in the call center. That decreased customer satisfaction to such a point that customers started going elsewhere. I also believe Sun should have never gotten into the x86 server/workstation market. Instead they should have focused their energies behind their flagship SPARC lines and actually produced a processor of their own rather than buying Fujitu's technology. Overall I think Sun offers superior products, but their customer support system is rather terrible.
What about IE, Chrome, Opera, and Safari users? As of now this solution only benefits a small portion of users. I don't see this being widely implemented at all.
lol...I don't think so. I think that everybody knows that myth is BUSTED!
What were they thinking? I have seen nothing but horrors with Oracle's front end applications. But seriously...how difficult is it to actually implement a decent payroll system?
I'm surprised nobody's sued them yet. If they want to check your background, they don't need your passwords to do that. With the exception of Yahoo!, most of the other companies work pretty well with law officials. Either way, I would not ever apply for a job with them.
DRM is meant to be broken...it's only a matter of time.
Sounds pretty normal for a call center. At my last job management got excited if a case was open for over two weeks regardless if the issue was resolved or not. That's what I call great customer service!
Whoa - I was born in the '80s and I still think vi is my most valuable tool! What else are you gonna use if your box is hosed and you have to edit those config files that you screwed up?
Apple's Mail works just as well as the Gmail interface because it also recognizes the conversations. I guess I will have to wait to see if there really is any benefit to using Gmail's client over Apples.
Thank you for pointing this out. Sun is not close sourcing existing portions of MYSQL. Just adding new features for the customers who will pay an arm and a leg for it. It may not be the smartest move in scoring points with the open source community, but it gives them more leverage with their high end customers.
I started my education at a liberal arts school. The subjects that were in my major, I focused a lot of time and energy in, but I didn't give a crap of the gen-ed courses. I finally switched to a specialized school to finish up and did very well. Don't waste your time with stuff that you'll have to force yourself to care about.