Regarding: 'SUN'

13 Nov 2006

Shackled But Free —

My best attempt at saying something nice about Sun’s GPLing of Java, even if a bit grudgingly.

tomayko.com 05:01

12 Jan 2009

“By installing Java, you will be able to experience the power of Java” —

Funniest thing I’ve seen on Joel on Software in quite some time.

joelonsoftware.com 17:29

17 Jan 2008

Sun and MySQL: I don't get it —

Oops: “At $1 billion … Sun paid a multiple of 10 times sales for MySQL today. Optimistically assuming a 20% profit margin, they are looking at a multiple of 50 times earnings for a return on investment of around 2% per year. Optimistically.”

baus.net 06:36

16 Jan 2008

Give Me a M: The MySQL/Sun Q&A —

Steve does the Sun/MySQL aquisition Q&A and speculates on some interesting effects of the deal: “… YouTube sold for $1.6 billion, and consumed virtually no software. If that acquisition was to take place today, they would have been buying from Sun.”

redmonk.com 23:07

Sun acquires MySQL —

What?!

blogs.mysql.com 00:50

24 Oct 2007

ZFS Puts Net App Viability at Risk? —

Schwartz: “… we will be going after sizable monetary damages. And I am committing that Sun will donate half of those proceeds to the leading institutions promoting free software and patent reform, and to the legal defense of free software innovators.”

blogs.sun.com 18:33

22 Sep 2007

Sun’s Ruby strategy - Engage and Contain? —

“Maybe I’ll start to believe when they start promoting Ruby on Rails at JavaOne, as opposed to promoting JRuby on Rails at RailsConf.”

logiccolony.com 03:02

19 Sep 2007

Sun surprises at RailsConf Europe 2007 [loudthinking.com] —

“‘Why are they doing all this?’, that’s a common concern with most Ruby folks … A Sun that’s heavily involved with Rails on the software side is a Sun that’s much better positioned to sell loads of hardware …”

loudthinking.com 18:47

14 May 2007

Charles Nutter - Big Plans [headius.blogspot.com] —

“And yes, I’ve seen the Microsoft news … If Sun did something like this I’d resign.”

headius.blogspot.com 10:35

Open Letter to Jonathan Schwartz from NeoOffice.org —

Best Open Letter Ever. Add your signature!

trinity.neooffice.org 02:55

08 May 2007

Does JavaFX Spell The End Of AJAX? —

Is anyone actually falling for this crap? “‘The goal is to make it so people never have to see code’, said Gosling.” — Gag Me!

internetnews.com 16:10

05 May 2007

Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" [slashdot.org] —

Slashdot has become a horrible discussion forum for most topics. Disk theory and UNIX sysadmin type stuff is an exception, though. This story on ZFS might have the most informational comments I’ve seen in years.

linux.slashdot.org 12:26