On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Anon Y Mous <system5u...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Does anybody who knows McNealy know if this is true: >> >> http://www.i-newswire.com/pr269855.html > > This looks like good news. > > I did see Scott again last year at Technical University in Berlin. Since > then, I understand why Scott tried to find a successor for his position (from > comparing my current impression with the impression I had from hin 15 years > ago) but it seems that even though he may believe that he needs to resign as > CEO, I believe that he still is the better choice for Sun. > > When looking at the video in > > http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/date/20090318 > > I was remembered to a steering board meeting where we listened to a > talk and where Bruce Perens asked: "Are we playing bullshit bingo? > If so, I have already three hits..." > > At least the first half of the video is full of empty phrases. I have > the impression that Jonathan does not understand what inside Sun is > different from other companies. The important thing however is that > the whole video looks displaced with the aquisition talks in mind. > > > IBM cannot be interested in Sun but seems to have interes in Sun's "organs" > only. > > Given the fact that the most important cause for the current depression is the > fear of the depression, I am sure that a better driven Sun company does not > need > to look for an investor. > > Sun does not properly use opportunities outside the USA that could help Sun as > a whole to place Sun for new customers and to sell more. A problem I see with > Sun is that Sun USA sees e.g Sun Germany only as a selling desk for Sun that > cannot influence total Sun sales even though it could be nuch more. During the > past years, Sun did aproach easy markets instead of important market places. > It is now easy to sell in Russia or China but it is important to sell in > Germany > because selling in Germany is apraoching key markets and allows to get > lighthouse customers that help to find similar customers in Europe later. > > We in Europe and in special in Germany currently have a major move towards > eGovernment and Sun has a very interesting product portfolio for eGovernment. > We tried to approach Sun for several years in order to get Sun involved in the > chances from the evolving eGovernment market to no avail. It seems that Sun > Germany cannot do the needed steps from own force and that Sun USA is not > willing to get involved. It is interesting to see that Microsoft USA at the > same > time sees that this is an important future market. > > Sun was aproached by the city of Berlin to make a bid for then thousands of > SunRay desktops and failed to be cheaper than HP. Now Sun does not get any > money > and in addition misses an important example customer..... > > Trying to help only works if Sun is willing to get help. Is Sun willing to get > help? > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) > joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
One of the best messages covering that topic. Respect. +1 -- %martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
