Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-10-10 Thread john kroll
If you want to take the bet off people and go even further back than 7-15-2010,their were only two key assets http://www.oracle.com/sun/letter.html . -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-10-09 Thread samantha brekel
interesting. a rising tide lifts all boats, I hear ya. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-23 Thread Erik Trimble
On 8/22/2010 5:47 PM, Jason wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, John Plocherjohn.ploc...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/20 Matthias Pfütznermatth...@pfuetzner.de Let me add some numbers... ... that a high percentage might be working on Solaris might provide us with an approach to a number

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-23 Thread Mark Bennett
We are sys admins of some Sun muchines we've sold to a customer in the Sun era. A T5120 with a ZFS mirror, had a disk fault, causing cyclic reset of the machine. Our hardware guy ran to the customer, disabled the disk and moved it out of the machine. Upon reboot the machine started normally,

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-22 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
Let me add some numbers... We know, that Sun was one of the IT companies, that spend an enormous percentage of it's revenue into engineering... More than 10 percent. If, and that's now a very crude approach, we then assume, that that relates to 10% of the costs also, we can assume, that

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-22 Thread John Plocher
2010/8/20 Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de Let me add some numbers... ... that a high percentage might be working on Solaris might provide us with an approach to a number close to 1000 engineers... Of your 1000 engineers, maybe 100 were the senior leaders in innovation, vision, drive

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-22 Thread Jason
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, John Plocher john.ploc...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/20 Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de Let me add some numbers... ... that a high percentage might be working on Solaris might provide us with an approach to a number close to 1000 engineers... Of

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-20 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Richard L. Hamilton) wrote: On 19 Aug 2010, at 15:43, Rick Ramsey wrote: I've been with Sun since 89 and our great engineers have always moved on. There's only room for a few at the top, after all. It's actually a healthy movement, since it gives younger engineers with

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-20 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
The move Sun-Oracle is casuing serious problems for mid-range customers resellers, here in Italy. Listen to this (happened few weeks ago). We are sys admins of some Sun muchines we've sold to a customer in the Sun era. A T5120 with a ZFS mirror, had a disk fault, causing cyclic reset of the

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-20 Thread Edward Martinez
This is getting to the point that I'm even starting to feel the pattern here, and I'm not one to proclaim bad news quickly. http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/815946 Since then, a couple of the names the poster speculated about have moved on. Adam Leventhal (co-D-trace creator)

[osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-19 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
This is getting to the point that I'm even starting to feel the pattern here, and I'm not one to proclaim bad news quickly. http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/815946 Since then, a couple of the names the poster speculated about have moved on. It's hard not to wonder if there aren't some

[osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-19 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
This is getting to the point that I'm even starting to feel the pattern here, and I'm not one to proclaim bad news quickly. http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/815946 Since then, a couple of the names the poster speculated about have moved on. It's hard not to wonder if there aren't some

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-19 Thread me
Well when the rising tide pulls back to sea, we will see what is left of Solaris proper. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-19 Thread Rick Ramsey
I've been with Sun since 89 and our great engineers have always moved on. There's only room for a few at the top, after all. It's actually a healthy movement, since it gives younger engineers with fresh approaches a change to step up. No question that Oracle is going to be different than

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-19 Thread Calum Benson
On 19 Aug 2010, at 15:43, Rick Ramsey wrote: I've been with Sun since 89 and our great engineers have always moved on. There's only room for a few at the top, after all. It's actually a healthy movement, since it gives younger engineers with fresh approaches a change to step up.

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-19 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On 19 Aug 2010, at 15:43, Rick Ramsey wrote: I've been with Sun since 89 and our great engineers have always moved on. There's only room for a few at the top, after all. It's actually a healthy movement, since it gives younger engineers with fresh approaches a change to step up.