So that's why Ballard stock dropped about 20% today... I was wondering what happened, since there didn't seem to be any negative press releases, Enron-like accounting announcements, etc.
Oh well - more competition and new ideas is always A Good Thing (tm MSO)
Pretty sure it rhymes with "ass" (as it should!), but I'm not even close to having a clue about anything to do with them, so don't take my guess as gospel...
I worked at Cobalt prior to the acquisition. I still work at Sun now, in the Cobalt group. SDW left on his 4 year anniversary with Cobalt, when all his options vested. No major mystery there. He's getting married and kicking back to enjoy his mega-bucks... all there is to it. Life at Sun (and Sun Cobalt) is progressing normally...
If it's a distribution review, who cares about the desktop system coverage? I want to know about kernel/gcc/etc versions, any new installer mods, clustering tools, etc. The desktop is just another app that I can upgrade from the owner if I want to...
If you're gonna cry about little Gnome coverage, what about all the users of better (faster) systems like WindowMaker, etc...:)
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I grew up in Plainfield, so I know just what you're talking about! Although we had several "part-time"/"special" officers (men like my dad who happened to work at home) to cover if needed... but only one actual cruiser for the police chief to tool around in.
Sun doesn't want M$ to ship a M$ JVM, because that's non-standard Java support and was the basis for the first lawsuit. Sun wants M$ to ship Sun's JVM, if they're going to ship _any_ JVM, because Sun's is the "legal" version...
I work for Sun, and submitted this story more than a month ago when we received internal email about the plans to charge for StarOffice.
FWIW, here's the original email that was sent out on Friday, January 11:
New Business Model for StarOffice/StarSuite 6.0 I am pleased to announce some significant changes to the StarOffice marketing strategy and corresponding business model. Along with our top goals of enabling desktop sales for Sun and being a critical component of the Sun ONE software stack, StarOffice is moving to a revenue based model. The major changes to the business model are:
Two products available to the market: (1)StarOffice/StarSuite 6.0 (Enterprise Edition) -- Sun sells & supports, (2) OpenOffice (Community Edition) -- free from OpenOffice.org and other sites outside of Sun
Other changes will include: - Removal of the full function, no-charge downloads from Sun - StarOffice 6.0 and service offerings available on GSO prices list at FCS (per copy, site license, OEM and channel pricing) - Global distribution channels: GSO, OEMs, Retail, Sun Store
The goal of this new business model is to generate revenue by providing a low cost, full featured office productivity alternative to the market place. Feedback from the market validates that customers are placing an economic value on StarOffice that is significantly greater than zero. This model allows Sun to generate new revenue from these customers willing to pay for StarOffice as well as creating pull for new systems, software and services revenue.
For those customers that would like to use a basic office suite at no charge, a "Community Edition" will continue to be available via
the OpenOffice.org project and other download sites outside of Sun.
This is an exciting time for StarOffice as customers, partners, press and analyst community are eager for a viable alternative
and highly supportive of our efforts.
Over the next 90 days, SSG will be focused on delivering:
GSO Readiness programs -- enabling any sales rep to sell StarOffice
Sales kits, channel program, TCO analysis, white papers, demos
Enterprise Support programs
Training, consulting services and support offerings
Stay tuned for more details on the specific programs and pricing to be available soon.
Um, no they aren't. There are absolutely no plans to switch any Sun Cobalt product lines to Sparc/Solaris (and I work in the Cobalt Server Appliance group, so I know of whence I speak =8^} ) There is support from the highest levels within Sun (from Scott and Ed on down) to continue moving forward with Linux-on-x86 as the basis for the Cobalt appliances.
They bought us because they liked the appliance concept. Cobalt is not, and won't be, a general purpose Linux/Unix solution. We play at the edge of the network, providing a front-end to the Sun big iron in the datacenter.
How about Cobalt for Linux from Sun? Granted, they aren't General Purpose Linux boxes, but it's better than nothing if you're an all-Sun shop that wants/needs Linux.
Nope, he misread or misunderstood the terminology used in the email. "Linux Insiders" are actually Microsoft salespeople who target Linux. They are *not* Sun or IBM or 'Linux' employees... I work for Sun, and we have internal people dedicated to countering IBM, M$, etc. too - it's a normal part of the sales process.
I sent the author an email asking him to correct the article; we'll see what happens.
I work for Sun in the Cobalt Server Appliances group. I personally run StarOffice on my RH7.1laptop for doing presentations for customers, etc. It is not _mandatory_ for Sun employees to use StarOffice, but most do. It's the only suite that Sun's internal IT group supports. So people who choose M$ Office are on their own for support. Also, Netscape is Sun's "official" browser and email program. If you read your mail with Outlook, etc, you're on your own too...
Found this link in a ZDNet TalkBack forum, of all places. A down-and-dirty expose of the real truths (they claim) behind the entire Microsoft history. Includes a long list of everyone who's sued M$, etc. Very enlightening...
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Got this back after sending abuse@home.com a short list of IPs culled from my Apache log:
Thank you for your report of Code Red probes.
While we are not allowed to give out specific information regarding
subscriber identity, or specific action taken without legal process, we
have identified the offending user and taken appropriate action against
this account. If you are receiving 'get' command strings from an @Home
user or users, directed at port 80, it is likely that that originating
machine has been compromised by the Code Red virus. One of the effects
it has is to cause infected machines to search for other machines that
would be exploitable. Machines that are running unpatched versions of
Windows NT Server or 2000, with a Web Server and IIS (Microsoft Index
Server 2.0 or Indexing Service in Windows 2000) are vulnerable to this
exploit. If you are NOT running this OS and services, your computer is
not subject to this particular compromise.
So it sounds like they are trying to do something, and apparently sending in IPs can help them weed out problem servers... slow, but better than nothing.
...and they didn't even say anything about me running a server in the first place!
Slashdot Mirror
Oh well - more competition and new ideas is always A Good Thing (tm MSO)
Microsoft JET Database Engine-Fehler '80040e57'
/includes/dataBase.asp, Zeile 135
Guess they don't really want to hear from anyone...The field is too small to accept the amount of data you attempted to add. Try inserting or pasting less data.
Pretty sure it rhymes with "ass" (as it should!), but I'm not even close to having a clue about anything to do with them, so don't take my guess as gospel...
Announcements about new Sun Cobalt products will be coming out before the end of this month...
I worked at Cobalt prior to the acquisition. I still work at Sun now, in the Cobalt group. SDW left on his 4 year anniversary with Cobalt, when all his options vested. No major mystery there. He's getting married and kicking back to enjoy his mega-bucks... all there is to it. Life at Sun (and Sun Cobalt) is progressing normally...
If you're gonna cry about little Gnome coverage, what about all the users of better (faster) systems like WindowMaker, etc... :)
> OSX on SunRays?
SunRays are a thin client, display only. Everything is pushed to them through the wire, so you can't run an OS directly on them...
There's also an alternate version, iRogue, at
http://roguelike-palm.sourceforge.net/iRogue/.
Doh. That would be everythingunix.ORG. Or go straight to the article here.
I grew up in Plainfield, so I know just what you're talking about! Although we had several "part-time"/"special" officers (men like my dad who happened to work at home) to cover if needed... but only one actual cruiser for the police chief to tool around in.
Sun doesn't want M$ to ship a M$ JVM, because that's non-standard Java support and was the basis for the first lawsuit. Sun wants M$ to ship Sun's JVM, if they're going to ship _any_ JVM, because Sun's is the "legal" version...
Excellent!
Of course. So freaking obvious... :)
Global Sales Organization
I work for Sun, and submitted this story more than a month ago when we received internal email about the plans to charge for StarOffice.
FWIW, here's the original email that was sent out on Friday, January 11:
New Business Model for StarOffice/StarSuite 6.0
I am pleased to announce some significant changes to the StarOffice marketing strategy and corresponding business model. Along with our top goals of enabling desktop sales for Sun and being a critical component of the Sun ONE software stack, StarOffice is moving to a revenue based model. The major changes to the business model are:
Two products available to the market: (1)StarOffice/StarSuite 6.0 (Enterprise Edition) -- Sun sells & supports, (2) OpenOffice (Community Edition) -- free from OpenOffice.org and other sites outside of Sun
Other changes will include:
- Removal of the full function, no-charge downloads from Sun
- StarOffice 6.0 and service offerings available on GSO prices list at FCS (per copy, site license, OEM and channel pricing)
- Global distribution channels: GSO, OEMs, Retail, Sun Store
The goal of this new business model is to generate revenue by providing a low cost, full featured office productivity alternative to the market place. Feedback from the market validates that customers are placing an economic value on StarOffice that is significantly greater than zero. This model allows Sun to generate new revenue from these customers willing to pay for StarOffice as well as creating pull for new systems, software and services revenue.
For those customers that would like to use a basic office suite at no charge, a "Community Edition" will continue to be available via the OpenOffice.org project and other download sites outside of Sun.
This is an exciting time for StarOffice as customers, partners, press and analyst community are eager for a viable alternative and highly supportive of our efforts.
Over the next 90 days, SSG will be focused on delivering:
Stay tuned for more details on the specific programs and pricing to be available soon.
Pat Sueltz
EVP and GM, Software Systems Group
R.I.P., Mr. Jones, and thanks for sharing your talents.
Um, no they aren't. There are absolutely no plans to switch any Sun Cobalt product lines to Sparc/Solaris (and I work in the Cobalt Server Appliance group, so I know of whence I speak =8^} ) There is support from the highest levels within Sun (from Scott and Ed on down) to continue moving forward with Linux-on-x86 as the basis for the Cobalt appliances.
They bought us because they liked the appliance concept. Cobalt is not, and won't be, a general purpose Linux/Unix solution. We play at the edge of the network, providing a front-end to the Sun big iron in the datacenter.
How about Cobalt for Linux from Sun? Granted, they aren't General Purpose Linux boxes, but it's better than nothing if you're an all-Sun shop that wants/needs Linux.
I sent the author an email asking him to correct the article; we'll see what happens.
Going for the "as in beer" definition for that one, I see... :)
There's gotta be a joke about MilliVanillion in here someplace, but I'm too low on caffeine to even try it myself... :)
I work for Sun in the Cobalt Server Appliances group. I personally run StarOffice on my RH7.1 laptop for doing presentations for customers, etc. It is not _mandatory_ for Sun employees to use StarOffice, but most do. It's the only suite that Sun's internal IT group supports. So people who choose M$ Office are on their own for support. Also, Netscape is Sun's "official" browser and email program. If you read your mail with Outlook, etc, you're on your own too...
The Canadian article can be found at the Information and Privacy Commisioner of Ontario's website here.
Found this link in a ZDNet TalkBack forum, of all places. A down-and-dirty expose of the real truths (they claim) behind the entire Microsoft history. Includes a long list of everyone who's sued M$, etc. Very enlightening...
Got this back after sending abuse@home.com a short list of IPs culled from my Apache log:
Thank you for your report of Code Red probes.
While we are not allowed to give out specific information regarding subscriber identity, or specific action taken without legal process, we have identified the offending user and taken appropriate action against this account. If you are receiving 'get' command strings from an @Home user or users, directed at port 80, it is likely that that originating machine has been compromised by the Code Red virus. One of the effects it has is to cause infected machines to search for other machines that would be exploitable. Machines that are running unpatched versions of Windows NT Server or 2000, with a Web Server and IIS (Microsoft Index Server 2.0 or Indexing Service in Windows 2000) are vulnerable to this exploit. If you are NOT running this OS and services, your computer is not subject to this particular compromise.
So it sounds like they are trying to do something, and apparently sending in IPs can help them weed out problem servers... slow, but better than nothing.
...and they didn't even say anything about me running a server in the first place!