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Organizational man

Posted on April 18, 2009 by admin

Irving Wladawsky-Berger started working at IBM in 1970 and retired in 2007 with what is, to me, the smartest corporate response to Linux/OpenSource as his capstone accomplishment. TG: Sun has committed to releasing all of its code as open source. … Continue reading →

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The ultimate snarky geeky Sun FAIL post

Posted on April 9, 2009 by admin

Well, it seems our friends at Sun have decided that their Spicetm Enhanced brains are completely sufficient to create an entirely new – but far simpler, mind you – module system for the JDK.  Mark “I’m just a simple Guild … Continue reading →

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Suns tracking SGI

Posted on April 5, 2009 by admin

IBM dropped its offer to acquire Sun for $7billion. Sun has now a series of projects for which it has large costs, but no clear method of making money. What did Sun gain from open sourcing Solaris, from giving away … Continue reading →

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