To quote the article, "There is likely to be a lot of pressure on Sun for the next several months," he said. "I don't expect a dramatic shift, but the IBM share of the UNIX server market will increase. It's a significant step forward for IBM." I think TechWeb were aware that this announcement does not mean the imminent death of Sun.:)
Seriously, maybe the free software community should consider drafting a new, open hardware standard as an alternative to the PC platform. The expertise is out there. The market is out there. It's just the PHBs who can't get their act together because they're too busy chasing the Sun buzzword bandwagon.
A commercial entity (a corporation) 'lives' for profit, for example. This explains why a corporation comprised of basically decent, moral human beings can routinely commit immoral acts. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
IMHO the only way to stop corporations from behaving immorally is to structure them in such a way that the individual moral decisions of the employees are not stifled as they are in a traditional corporate structure. What structure would work best, I don't know, but the Internet doesn't seem to be any better (see recent slashdot story on computer ethics).
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To quote the article, :)
"There is likely to be a lot of pressure on Sun for the next several months," he said. "I don't expect a dramatic shift, but the IBM share of the UNIX server market will increase. It's a significant step forward for IBM."
I think TechWeb were aware that this announcement does not mean the imminent death of Sun.
I thought RS/6000 was a 64-bit MIPS architecture.
One transistor at a time!
Seriously, maybe the free software community should consider drafting a new, open hardware standard as an alternative to the PC platform. The expertise is out there. The market is out there. It's just the PHBs who can't get their act together because they're too busy chasing the Sun buzzword bandwagon.
Surely "As the ball bursts"?
A commercial entity (a corporation) 'lives' for profit, for example. This explains why a corporation comprised of basically decent, moral human beings can routinely commit immoral acts. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
IMHO the only way to stop corporations from behaving immorally is to structure them in such a way that the individual moral decisions of the employees are not stifled as they are in a traditional corporate structure. What structure would work best, I don't know, but the Internet doesn't seem to be any better (see recent slashdot story on computer ethics).