Business intelligence, at least in my view, has always been about finding a way to take what employees know and marginalizing the employee.
Think about it. The reason a lot of folks have jobs is because they have a specific skills and knowledge. If you allow someone to siphon off that knowledge, it marginalizes the employee.
The whole implication of this posting, calling Sun "fair weather friends", and all that, is that Sun is trying to get people to jump to Solaris because of this.
No where in that article is Solaris even mentioned. It even says that Sun's Linux doesn't have the encumbrances because it bought out the Unix license the way HP did.
There are a lot of reasons to take Sun to task for stupid things they've done, but this isn't one of them.
"HP did a complete buyout of Unix licensing from SCO," HP spokesman Brian Garabedian said. "We have a perpetual license rather than per copy license for HP-UX...We don't believe we have any exposure to the SCO lawsuit."
Sun, too, bought out its Unix license, said John Loiacono, vice president of Sun's operating platforms group.
"We bought our Unix license out....We are unencumbered for all things," including Sun's version of Linux, he said.
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They are making statements trying to play up Solaris as a safe harbor for worried Linux and IBM users.
They don't say a THING about shifting users to Solaris. It says that their Linux is not effected by the lawsuit, since they bought it out.
I read up until that quote I pointed out, and didn't see the very next line. Doh! Thanks for pointing that out.
The interesting thing about the article vs. this news story is that if you read the article in context, you see that Sun's just figuring out whether or not they're going to be dragged into the lawsuit, not that they're dropping Linux support. If they're doing a strategy shift around Linux (like they said in the article), figuring out what their current legal rights are is an important thing to know.
Fortunately, since they already have a license for this stuff, they're not effected.
So, in reading the article (and in finding the quote in context), Sun's doing a strategy shift to Linux, this comes up, and they have to figure out what the implications of this are. Are they going to be dragged into this suit? Are they safe from it because they have a license that covers it?
NO WHERE in the article did they say they were stopping Linux support.
The original poster of this article makes it sound like Sun's just going to drop everything now that the lawsuit is happening to other folks, and THAT IS NOT WHAT THE ARTICLE SAYS.
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Business intelligence, at least in my view, has always been about finding a way to take what employees know and marginalizing the employee.
Think about it. The reason a lot of folks have jobs is because they have a specific skills and knowledge. If you allow someone to siphon off that knowledge, it marginalizes the employee.
The whole implication of this posting, calling Sun "fair weather friends", and all that, is that Sun is trying to get people to jump to Solaris because of this.
No where in that article is Solaris even mentioned. It even says that Sun's Linux doesn't have the encumbrances because it bought out the Unix license the way HP did.
There are a lot of reasons to take Sun to task for stupid things they've done, but this isn't one of them.
"HP did a complete buyout of Unix licensing from SCO," HP spokesman Brian Garabedian said. "We have a perpetual license rather than per copy license for HP-UX...We don't believe we have any exposure to the SCO lawsuit." Sun, too, bought out its Unix license, said John Loiacono, vice president of Sun's operating platforms group. "We bought our Unix license out....We are unencumbered for all things," including Sun's version of Linux, he said.
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They are making statements trying to play up Solaris as a safe harbor for worried Linux and IBM users.
They don't say a THING about shifting users to Solaris. It says that their Linux is not effected by the lawsuit, since they bought it out.
Maybe we shouldn't be involved in Linux, after all
Read the article. They're pausing to see what the lawsuit means, not leaving Linux.
I read up until that quote I pointed out, and didn't see the very next line. Doh! Thanks for pointing that out.
The interesting thing about the article vs. this news story is that if you read the article in context, you see that Sun's just figuring out whether or not they're going to be dragged into the lawsuit, not that they're dropping Linux support. If they're doing a strategy shift around Linux (like they said in the article), figuring out what their current legal rights are is an important thing to know.
Fortunately, since they already have a license for this stuff, they're not effected.
NO WHERE in the article did they say they were stopping Linux support.
The original poster of this article makes it sound like Sun's just going to drop everything now that the lawsuit is happening to other folks, and THAT IS NOT WHAT THE ARTICLE SAYS.
"We bought our Unix license out....We are unencumbered for all things," including Sun's version of Linux, he said.
How is does that quote imply they're a fair-weather friend?