Sun is cutting 6000 jobs.
I am sad. Sun was one of those companies t that I looked with tremendous respect.
I heard that piece of news just after I was informed of Solaris 10/08.
Maybe some of world finest engineers are at Sun.
I wish that more light would shine on them.
I think that if Microsoft would move quick - they could buy Sun out in this period.
ReplyDeleteThey might get the following:
- enormous IP in all fields of IT
- control on a good niche of server market - chance to impose windows on an until now closed platform for them
- control on Java technology - this would be really a big hit for them
in the past Sun was the first promoter of the standards & technologies in java world now when jee and development technologies for web is what everyone looking for Sun is only a week player on the market ..their app server is not use by anyone (only for learning the technologies maybe...) glassfish was only a rename of existing product with so many bad releases...even waiting for the java7 release became eternity.. In the market many technologies claim to be a new boom every day ..but they come and go ...what meters the most is a clean design of an application, decoupling things.. old school :)
ReplyDeleteSun is not only Java.
ReplyDeleteI agree That Java is now Sun's icon but they were in servers business long before Java.
They are one of the last companies that still stands to the WinTel assault.
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