This link might be a bit more useful to some people: http://www.endicottalliance.org/aboutmembership.htm
As I have expressed, I do not think this is a wise match with IBM. I believe it will destroy value at Sun. My personal opinion is that a better match would be with Cisco or Google. I don't know how many of you have recently seen the 'secret sauce' of goog hardware deployments, but frankly they have some of the most ghetto engineering in the world going on. It works great up to a point... But bread racks (with electro-tasty slide out shelves no less) and some batteries strapped to them aren't exactly NEBS compliant either. On many fronts they have good ideas about merciless deployment, but they really could do way better too. They really don't have the back end for whatever Web 3.0 is going to be that's for damned sure. Cisco, well god knows they make good packet pushers, but after that the picture gets pretty damned dim, pretty damned fast. What's that leave them, a Linux strategy? Ooooh good luck with that one, it's worked so well for who? that they want to now buy Sun? Fran kly Cisco's better than Linux, so unless they want to fall on their asses with yet-another reinvention of the wheel with a reinvented wheel as a technological baseline, perhaps they ought to be thinking a bit more than babbling to the market half baked press releases. Sun is a company that I've always admired, and half the problem is the company is consistently ahead of the curve technologically. Much of that has come from a decent (I won't pretend it's perfect, I know better) corporate culture. It's one that's mostly steered it clear of a mainframe mentality, and that alternative is in part responsible for the companies success in the past. Joining with the company that originated that very meme doesn't seem wise on a very obvious level. Basic research would indicate this to be the case in actuality as well. This should be a concern for anyone who's holdings of JAVA are such that divestiture versus long term loss is an issue, much less a pile of code monkeys. Tim -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
