Comments on: Microsoft Brand Far from Respected (Says Fortune), Company’s Future May Resemble Sun’s Trajectory (Says BNET)

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:35:29 +0000

Oracle has taken the Free software projects of Sun seriously enough so far, except GNOME accessibility.

By: your_friend

your_friend — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:13:56 +0000

Sun had great technical prowess but it clung to non free models too long for the company’s own good. While we can and should admire the GPLing of Java, for example, this came about a decade too late. Open Solaris was a good start but plans were laid to make that the default Solaris as Sun was on the chopping block. Sun, like other Unix companies, suffered when they all reinvented non free wheels on top of Unix instead of sharing the work and distinguishing themselves in service and hardware alone. The technical excellence of their software was always doomed, in the long run, to free software imitation. It would have been better for them to have not wasted their resources and everone else’s resources that way. Freedom succeeds, survives and is largely slog proof.

By: Robotron 2084

Robotron 2084 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:29:45 +0000

I’m amazed that you would defend a company consisting of individuals who in all likelihood have no awareness of your existence by using schoolyard insults towards their competitor. Calling people dweebs? How could this not be construed as ‘Trolling’?

Granted, it’s not a whole lot different than a sports fan rooting for his favorite team while badmouthing their opponents, but it still seems far out of place.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:15:01 +0000

Yes, in many cases history shows that best products just rarely win.

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:16:32 +0000

Much of that appears to be the result of “The Slog” and is both self-fulfilling and self-perpetuating. Only a few of their own staff have fallen victim to the psyops. The rest comes from without.

The talk of server consolidation is in no small part the result of the mess created by drifting away from Linux / Solaris (both open source) on SPARC (open architecture: http://www.opensparc.net/) Wintel can’t handle the work load. Go into a Windows shop’s server farm and you’ll see 3:1 or worse hardware to service ratio instead of 1:16 or so. Some places have almost one Wintel server per every two staff members. At a global level, a small country could be powered by that wasted electricity.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:44:36 +0000

I was not disparaging Sun’s products, just their financial performance in recent years.

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:40:58 +0000

Hey. Sun does not deserve that kind of disparagement. It’s a good company with good products and has in the past been a truly awesome company and greatly respected.

Microsoft has always made garbage products which have been, at best, laughed at, along with the dweebs that peddle or apologize the One Microsoft Way. Sure it puts food on the table, but so does selling crack, that’s not an excuse for what the dweebs are doing to the country.