Sun's position in the marketplace is really starting to slide and not having a strong service division is the least of their problems.
I work for a company that is Sun reseller, and recently they have been adding more bureaucracy and "rules" to their resellers. This causes the sales force to waste a lot of time and limits them from achieving a better sales position. Recently Sun "required" us to send a sun certified tech to a new product announcement in a town 8 hours away. This three day trip was a complete waste of time as the same knowledge could be obtained in one hour of reading information off their site and spend the remaining time billing hours to clients.
Sun is also slitting its own throat with their pricing. Several year's ago they use to argue price/performance, which was a strong argument for their products. Now with the improvements and wider sector approval of Linux, they can't make that argument. The only area where they have any strength in the marketplace is the very high end server and possibly security for the types that like to have a company behind a product. There market for the most powerful 5% isn't that small, and I think its only a matter of time before other products overtake them in the price department.
I still use them on a handful of client intranet sites where I only want to search for the values of the metatags, not the content page.
For example if have an intranet site with thousands of ducments about various hardware compements. All of the hardware has a part number and all documents pertaining to that hardware have the part number in the metatags.
Completely uninspired directing
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Review: Insomnia
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I saw this movie this weekend and was completely disappointed. If you didn't figured out the ending by the trailers, it was apparent 30 minutes into the movie. For a movie that is supposed to be a thriller, I was forcing myself to stay awake through most of the movie. My heart skipped more beats watching "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes."
I get the feeling that either Chris Nolan as a director is a one trick pony like Quentin Tarantino, or he coasted this one in relaying on the abilities of the Academy Award winning actors and the fact that it was a successful movie in Europe. The entire key of the movie is filming the movie from the prospective of Al Pacino and him battling his insomnia. He tried doing this but completely failed. Every scene should have had Pacino in it, reveal what Swank was doing on her own at the end of the movie. Inner dialog also would have helped. Help the audience understand how delusional and paranoid he was getting.
The acting in the movie was great, but poor directing can ruin an entire film.
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Sun's position in the marketplace is really starting to slide and not having a strong service division is the least of their problems.
I work for a company that is Sun reseller, and recently they have been adding more bureaucracy and "rules" to their resellers. This causes the sales force to waste a lot of time and limits them from achieving a better sales position. Recently Sun "required" us to send a sun certified tech to a new product announcement in a town 8 hours away. This three day trip was a complete waste of time as the same knowledge could be obtained in one hour of reading information off their site and spend the remaining time billing hours to clients.
Sun is also slitting its own throat with their pricing. Several year's ago they use to argue price/performance, which was a strong argument for their products. Now with the improvements and wider sector approval of Linux, they can't make that argument. The only area where they have any strength in the marketplace is the very high end server and possibly security for the types that like to have a company behind a product. There market for the most powerful 5% isn't that small, and I think its only a matter of time before other products overtake them in the price department.
I still use them on a handful of client intranet sites where I only want to search for the values of the metatags, not the content page.
For example if have an intranet site with thousands of ducments about various hardware compements. All of the hardware has a part number and all documents pertaining to that hardware have the part number in the metatags.
I saw this movie this weekend and was completely disappointed. If you didn't figured out the ending by the trailers, it was apparent 30 minutes into the movie. For a movie that is supposed to be a thriller, I was forcing myself to stay awake through most of the movie. My heart skipped more beats watching "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes."
I get the feeling that either Chris Nolan as a director is a one trick pony like Quentin Tarantino, or he coasted this one in relaying on the abilities of the Academy Award winning actors and the fact that it was a successful movie in Europe. The entire key of the movie is filming the movie from the prospective of Al Pacino and him battling his insomnia. He tried doing this but completely failed. Every scene should have had Pacino in it, reveal what Swank was doing on her own at the end of the movie. Inner dialog also would have helped. Help the audience understand how delusional and paranoid he was getting.
The acting in the movie was great, but poor directing can ruin an entire film.
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