Jonathan's open letter to SJP
Jonathan's Blog
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan
On Friday, January 21st, Jonathan Schwartz (pardon me for giving him a blog-nickname Schwarzy) of Sun has published an open letter to IBM (http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20050121#an_open_letter_to_sam1) - urging it to port some of it's SW to Solaris 10 for x86 ...
... it's funny, that Schwarzy has to use a blog to beg IBM what to do. Actually, I just think he tried to persuade some people that Big Blue is getting back to its proprietary roots. -That's bullshit, JS - and you know it.
I like the fact, that he admitted, what a lot of people already know - it was a great sunny day, but now the sunset is coming. :-)
I'm wondering, why there was no customer response - at least I haven't seen any - with these same claims?
Maybe you should go to your customers more often and listen to them - you'll spend your working hours better that way. Instead of blogging funny jokes on the web ... :-)
However, I think you did a hell of a good job with that hot coffee, man! Java rocks.
Another personal remark: Sun seems that it just stayed a technology company. Hardware, Software. Mega, giga - bytes, -Hertz and benchmarks. Check the customer side sometimes - the value they get out of it, the problems they can solve and how this can drive their business. There are some great listening courses offered by IBM Learning Services! Don't worry, you'll get a discount ... :-)
Good comment on the story at The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/25/sun_IBM_blog/
"In addition, Solaris 10 isn't even shipping yet - on Sun's own servers! Sure companies such as BEA and Oracle have pledged to support the OS when it arrives, but can you really chastise one of Sun's biggest competitors for not rallying behind an OS that's not on the market"
... and...
"Sun's PR staffers, however, have been hounding reporters for weeks to talk about IBM specifically giving Solaris x86 the cold shoulder. They say at least 20 members of the Fortune 500 have asked IBM to port its middleware to Solaris x86. Sun, of course, won't call out these customers by name."
posted by JBT at 1/29/2005 09:59:00 AM
2 Comments:
I actually agree with Schwartzy - every other vendor has announced support, IBM hasn't, and there's no reason other than... they're afraid of a better OS than anything they've ever seen in Solaris 10.
Not correct - IBM hasn't announced support only for x86 Solaris 10. YET.
The way I see it - competition can't just come knocking on Big Blue's door saying:"Hi, we want you to commit your resources to our OS. It's not out there yet, it's not working on OUR OWN machines yet, but we need you to invest your people / $$$ so that we'll have easyer job selling it!"
As it's been before: when there's enough of customer demand to have a business case (that will be profitable) - I'm sure, IBM will support it.
It's not a thing of charity - it's business, so it has to make some money.
Afraid? Don't forget, that IBM supports Linux, Windows, HP-UX, Novell ...
Tnx for your comment!
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