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Sun: Laggard or gaining momentum?

Sun: Laggard or gaining momentum?The increase in gross margins the most interesting thingSun has seen a significant increase in product gross margins, which has directly translated into an increase in gross profits.What is causing the increase in margins is the real question. Most of the systems Sun has added...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Sun Microsystems Inc., SUN HAS, sales

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

Mashup Camp 3, Apex Code, Solaris 10, Google Office and more...

Mashup Camp 3, Apex Code, Solaris 10, Google Office and more...Sun Vs RedhatSun Has some great products and solaris is a good OS but they are a bit pathetic in that they just "all of a sudden"a big open source on their own terms company bla,bla..they throw around words like...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Google Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, stratergy, SUN HAS, open source, Linux, Sun Solaris 10

Discussion threads 2007-01-19

The fall of McNealy: the end of an error

Sun’s present predicament – which has now culminated in Scott McNealy taking chairman’s bum rush – can be boiled down to one simple fact: this is a hardware company that has never understood the value of software. Sure, Sun has tons of software: Solaris, I'm told Jonathan Schwartz knows a...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., SUN HAS, software

Blog posts 2006-04-24

Do we need an open source DRM?

Sun has announced what it calls Project DReaM the funny capitalization is intentional. The idea is to build an open source Digital Rights Management system. The cynical response is that this is not really about open source at all. Sun has no real play in the DRM space. Microsoft has...

Tags: digital-rights management, SUN HAS

Blog posts 2006-03-09

HP Sun : A good combination?

HP Sun : A good combination?HP + SunAssuming HP spins off the debt ridden PC unit, then the imaging business, what's left? Servers. What does Sun make? Servers. I think Sun has the technical resources, witness the brilliance of Java, a new marketing approach, and a throng of...

Tags: Desktops, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., SUN HAS

Discussion threads 2005-02-14

Sun has software plans for rival servers

Sun has software plans for rival serversDunno, kinda seems like a day late and a dollar shortFor a company headed by a blow hard as big as Scott McNealy the lack of competitiveness in their products when the euphoria of the late 90's disappeared makes me incredulous.Sun's problem is that...

Tags: Programming languages, Processors, Application servers, server, software, Sun Microsystems Inc., SUN HAS, Java

Discussion threads 2004-07-26

Sun's gimmicky good idea

Sun's gimmicky good ideaSun is dead.Everybody keeps saying it, so everybody can't be wrong. Actually, they still have a lot to offer and they can still perform. That doesn't mean they will, but they can. It's perplexing. There are just too many smart people at Sun to allow things to...

Tags: Sales strategy, Outsourcing, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., SUN HAS

Discussion threads 2004-06-09

Additional Resources

What's up, what's down on our warming planet?

Glaciers are down, the ocean is up. Here are some details: Europe is losing its Alpine snowmass. Glaciers in Europe have lost 25% of their snowmass since 1980. It's more than agony for skiers. Huge sections of rock and rubble are leaving...

Tags: Meter, Glacier, Business Ethics, Government, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-06

Mainstream media writes Windows obit

Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

The Importance of Dissent

Word is going around that Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, is parting ways with Sun. Matt Asay blogs about it and says it's a good thing Widenius is taking his dissent on the road: At this point, however, Monty has done the right thing with his dissent. He has...

Tags: MySQL, Arjen, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-09-05

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureOverbroadYou wrote:[The appliance computing culture’s interactive] applications model drives almost everything, from processor and OS evolution to appropriate management structure - and even the conflicts with traditional business systems experts whose internal model of “automatic data processing” is broadly unrelated to the needs and...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Processors, business systems expert, appliance computing culture, mainframe, best practice, Windows PC

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlightis Flash chopped liver?I don't get it... Flash is ubiquitous.. it's on almost every PC out there and has a huge developer base behind it, yet these people are implying Silverlight is THE platform to beat. What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't (besides a...

Tags: Scripting languages, Adobe RIA, SWF, Chrome, WebKit RiA, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, WebKit, Microsoft Office, SVG, Adobe Systems Inc., developer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?

Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?Microsoft is also airing the Mojave experiment ads. nt.RE: Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?That add is really stupid . . . but, if you're totally incapable of building a quality operating system, why not try comedy?Best marketing for...

Tags: Operating systems, Branding, Microsoft Windows, advertisement, Windows Gurus, Windows brand, Microsoft Corp., brand, Seinfeld

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet

The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...

Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Google Apps adoption rates up

At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart on how the company's Google Docs word processing product has surpassed Sun’s OpenOffice in the last year and is slowly...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Cloud Computing, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Microsoft Office

Videos 2008-09-04

Red Hat acquires Qumranet

I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinking

Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinkingI wonder -- would others please weigh inOk, your stats here are out to lunch but I wonder about your basic point.I think it's wrong - that almost any non OS specific programming language can be used to produce a standard code base from...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, operating system, Linux, Google Inc., IE8, Chrome, longer-term, COBOL, window

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

TiVo HD XL (150 HD hours)

When TiVo discontinued its high-end cable-ready high-def DVR, the TiVo Series3, it was really just making room for a new product in the line: the TiVo HD XL. The new TiVo is a near twin to the existing TiVo HD, but for three changes: it's got a much larger...

Tags: DVR, Digital video, Network technology, TV & Home Theater, TVs, cable, TiVo Inc.

Product reviews 2008-09-04

10 ways to get maximum value from a professional development class

If your company or you invests in training aimed at helping you become more capable and well-rounded, it only makes sense to get everything you can out of the class. Calvin Sun offers some practical tips to help maximize the benefits.This download is also available as an entry in our...

Tags: Professional Development, Calvin Sun, Training And Certification

Download resources 2008-09-04

Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting case

Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting caseGreater than what...."Server virtualization (in the PC/IBM sense of hosting multiple equivalent OS instances on one machine), for example, is extraordinarily popular right now and can definitely reduce data center cost - but almost always does so at greater cost to the business...

Tags: Data centers, Virtualization, Murph, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., IT IS, e-voting

Discussion threads 2008-09-03