March 27, 2009 12:33 AM
Posted by: David Vasta
IBM,
SUNI really thought SUN was going to get purchased by IBM and then come to find out IBM may be laying off 5000 employees? Come on IBM, you know you didn't have to do that? Seems like the past 20 years of IT have been very up and down. I wish it would level out for just a bit.
March 18, 2009 7:37 PM
Posted by: David Vasta
Buy Out,
IBM,
Solaris,
SUNLINK :: NYT - IBM said to be in talks to buy Sun for $7 Billion
I think this is long over due. Sun has been twisting in the wind for way to long with way to many decent products (Solaris, StarOffice, SSO, EIM, Java,...
November 15, 2008 4:54 AM
Posted by: David Vasta
Bad Economy,
Just Blogging,
SUNIt's not going to be easy to get throught this hard economic time. Sadly SUN was not in a position I think to survive it anyway. They have been on the bubble for years. I wish all the empoyees who got thier walking papers good luck, there are jobs out there you just have to be creative.
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November 5, 2008 8:40 PM
Posted by: David Vasta
Japan,
Just Blogging,
Offtopic,
Other Blogs,
SUN,
User GroupsJim writes an blog post that I found is not just for OpenSolaris User Groups, but could be used for all User Groups. Thanks Jim for the great post and sharing you thoughts on the matter.
LINK :: Jim Grisanzio - Running...
August 1, 2008 4:18 AM
Posted by: David Vasta
Open source,
OpenSolaris,
SUNI am a fan of Open Projects and OpenSolaris all be a SUN product is still something to watch, and I do ofter from Jim Grisanzio's Blog. I read Jim's blog for two reasons, one he is interesting and is honest about the progress of the...
June 22, 2008 2:48 AM
Posted by: David Vasta
AIX on Power,
Apple,
David on System i,
Domino on System i,
FreeBSD,
i,
i for business,
i on Power,
IBM i,
Linux,
Linux in System i,
Linux on POWER,
Lotus,
Lotus News,
OpenSolaris,
POWER Systems,
SUN,
System i,
Ubuntu LinuxI am working on a new site, so between work, this site, writting for Search400 (which I hope they change the name of soon) and family, I have also found little time to start building a new site that will in the end be a hub for all things POWER based. I have to bring the community together under...
May 7, 2008 2:04 PM
Posted by: David Vasta
Linux,
Open source,
OpenSolaris,
SUN,
UNIX
Sun has never been buddies with IBM...
