Ah well, as long as we are speculating and reading into rumours (and I can't
sleep anyway) I may as well contribute :-P
Words from Scott a week or so after the initial 18th March rumour:
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1351994,00.html
Sun's McNealy touts
[i][On the bright side, we're getting a lot more press lately./i]
Yes. Press that brings up Scotty's shares and SUN down. Win one lose one.
Actually, the discussion before this was a good one, for a change. Yes,
'invention is faster at SUN', as someone answered to an earlier post of mine.
IPS
There are now early reports (in reality more bullshitty secret squirrel
stuff) that talks are either on the verge of collapse, or have broken down
entirely.
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5206-10532-0.html?forumID=1threadID=62908
a href=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/03/sun_gutted_ibm/;Massive Sun
cuts planned as IBM focuses on software trio/a
blockquoteIBM staffers have, according to a Reg source close to the parties,
been talking to Sun about its software portfolio and - unsurprisingly - they
don't like what
If it's one thing I've learned out of this, it's how pathetic tech journalists
are. *Every single last piece of journalism* on this matter has been sourced
from the same persons famliar with the matter, and over the course of a month
it's become de facto truth. Paul Ottelini has been the sole
I might add that amongst these ineloquent commnents about Ponytail it was
through JIS I was introduced to Sun, precisely at the time he mentioned ZFS was
being included in Mac OS X. Prior to that I knew zip about the company and its
products, and was a fulltime Mac OS and Wintel guy.
In that
davenz wrote:
I might add that amongst these ineloquent commnents about Ponytail it was
through JIS I was introduced to Sun, precisely at the time he mentioned ZFS was
being included in Mac OS X. Prior to that I knew zip about the company and its
products, and was a fulltime Mac OS and Wintel
