I agree, but I will say this: Publicly owned companies serve one purpose, one purpose which they are obliged to follow. That is to serve the interests of their shareholders. Trust is for friends and family, not for companies. There is not a single company I trust to do what is right by me, because that is not what they are there for. Private companies exist to serve themselves, public companies to serve their shareholders.
I don't trust Oracle, but I don't trust IBM, HP, Dell or any other company either. The key I think is to get what fits your needs and hope for the best. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Leigh Porter <[email protected]>wrote: > **** > > Spot on. And the answer is that no, I don’t trust Oracle really to do > anything other than to screw me over, to be blunt about it. **** > > I know some great and talented people who work at Oracle, it’s not their > fault but sorry, you’ve lost a customer and not just for the Rays.**** > > ** ** > > --**** > > Leigh**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jeremy Stagg > *Sent:* 22 October 2013 22:55 > *To:* SunRay-Users mailing list; Alan Coopersmith > > *Subject:* Re: [SunRay-Users] Sun Ray Product Discontinuation - Real > Reason?**** > > ** ** > > It's pleasing to see the contribution from an oracle.com address Alan.**** > > **** > > And I am sure a number of readers of the forum would be like a desert > awaiting a torrent of information from the Oracle source to clear up the > questions that have been posed since July this year from all around the > globe.**** > > **** > > Maybe take the opportunity to feed back into the Oracle funnels the input > that the brand with the user base has been greatly tarnished by a decision > that was not conducted on a community basis.**** > > **** > > And the FUD resulting from this has escalated even into training sessions > of related products.**** > > **** > > Trust. That's the core of the issue.**** > > **** > > Not fancy, bling driven, consumerist technologies like pink plastic phones > that can connect to the latest HTML5 representation of big data dribble.** > ** > > **** > > Trust. Because that's what an administrator relies upon with their user > base of hundreds to thousands of users.**** > > **** > > Trust. Because the management want 5 years planning for the business and > 10 years on non-repeated re-rollouts of updated Intel boxes.**** > > **** > > Trust. Because the economy demands stability and not knee-jerk reactivity. > **** > > **** > > Trust. Because the security model is yet to be surpassed by other > technologies still to this day.**** > > **** > > Yes tablets have a place as do other technologies. But not in the same way > as above.**** > > **** > > When you fail to include the customer in the decision process the result > is distrust.**** > > **** > > And a shy but recognisable turn away from the brand.**** > > **** > > Sure, the marketing team have calculated the interim cost of the leaking > bucket.**** > > **** > > But the resellers affected will remember this for some time along with the > customers who trusted them.**** > > **** > > All it takes is one small sentence in a sales cycle or cloud service from > a customer.**** > > **** > > *But Jeremy, do you trust them now ?* > > >>> Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> 23/10/2013 2:42 AM >>> > On 10/17/13 11:46 PM, Jeremy Stagg wrote: > > I've just come out of the ZFS/ZS3 training and learnt that SPARC may > also be on > > the way out. > > I don't think that's true at all, but if you'd like to ask, they've listed > some > time for questions at tomorrows webcast on the release of the third new > set of > SPARC servers this year (M6 now, after T5 & M5 in the spring): > > > http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=693509&s=1&k=C6EEB12F285FAFB56E82CBBCECC3248A&partnerref=ocomservers > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] > Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc**** > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________**** > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > >
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