Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Jun 2004 03:13 UTC
Sun introduced recently the second version of Java Desktop System (JDS) for a flat fee per employee/per year. We tried it and here is what we found out about:
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SkyOS doesn't do multi-user. Maybe Sun would like that since it wants Solaris on the server... I dunno. But as far as Solaris 10 being outstanding, that's certainly a matter of opinion (not mine) - and won't affect JDS much.
The fact that JDS is so buggy, rushed to market and generally based on a Linux distribution (and supporting packages) from the relatively distance past (mid-2003?), it seems that Sun has approached this the way they have their other software...
What software, you ask? It's mostly gone now, having failed the test of the marketplace, often leaving the sales channel (and consulting affiliates like Solect) floundering trying to figure out how to make their customers happy again (can't tell you how many dealers had to supply FW-1 free after Sun's completely botched firewall product hit terminal crapulence... or their IPX-to-Internet integration product bought from Cisco and promptly dropped... or that SMB/IPX/NFS product they put money into, then ruined/dropped... ad infinitum). Take the Raq... please, take it... please?
One thing that leaves me scratching my head is this is Sun: the company that makes Java. They know full well that NPTL support in GLIBC/Linux makes their Java applications considerably faster - in some cases, dramatically faster... and here they are shipping 2.4.19 over a Linuxthreads GLIBC, throwing 30% or better of their Java engine's performance on Linux out the window. It makes no sense unless you have known Sun for long enough. 1996 was the year they *should* have turned it all around, and only the DotCom bubble has kept them floating on all that exhuberantly wasted cash.
(read modded down posts for some more history if you care)