Re: [osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
Martin Bochnig wrote: > There doesn't seem to be a _functioning_ hierarchy in Sun's structure. > One group does this, another that, nobody is responsible, nobody has a > clue of an OVERSIGHT. > > Maybe what Sun needs is some real central government policy, _one_ > direction (rather than 360 degre

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-09 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Uwe Dippel wrote: > [i]They cannot see that I tried to help them. > Like MANY OTHERS.[/i] > > So true ... ! > > The analysis of the 6 mistakes looks pretty well done to me. > I'd add half of one more, for in here; also w.r.t. the other thread on the > success of Li

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-09 Thread Uwe Dippel
[i]They cannot see that I tried to help them. Like MANY OTHERS.[/i] So true ... ! The analysis of the 6 mistakes looks pretty well done to me. I'd add half of one more, for in here; also w.r.t. the other thread on the success of Linux versus Solaris: Most of the Linux-distros offer a basically

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-08 Thread UNIX admin
> when a company is struggling, there are millions of > "analysts" and > "experts" who come up with zillions of reasons for > not doing well. Very > conveniently these reasons come up only after the > fact. No, that's not true in this case; you can easily find my writings on the subject dating

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-08 Thread Rallavagu
when a company is struggling, there are millions of "analysts" and "experts" who come up with zillions of reasons for not doing well. Very conveniently these reasons come up only after the fact. Martin Bochnig wrote: http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/06/sun-microsystems-enterprise-technology-ente

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-08 Thread UNIX admin
> Same here. > Instead they complain about me because the > (mis-)believe I'm > "trolling" or "flaming". > They cannot see that I tried to help them. > Like MANY OTHERS. I'd make one small change though: I wouldn't lay off any engineers. I'd fire or demote all of middle management. And enjoy eve

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-08 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:09 AM, UNIX admin wrote: >> http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/06/sun-microsystems-ente >> rprise-technology-enterprise-tech-sun.html > > I'm not a Sun Microsystems employee, but from my perspective as an outsider, > and considering the end results, I would tend to agree with

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-08 Thread UNIX admin
> http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/06/sun-microsystems-ente > rprise-technology-enterprise-tech-sun.html I'm not a Sun Microsystems employee, but from my perspective as an outsider, and considering the end results, I would tend to agree with everything in that article. In fact, the article only re

[osol-discuss] Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes

2009-04-07 Thread Martin Bochnig
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