Star General Electric Selects Sun Microsystems
Linked by Adam S on Mon 1st Aug 2005 19:52 UTC
SUN Microsystems It has been a big day for Sun Microsystems today, who, after announcing their largest deal ever, now report that General Electric has selected Sun's Java System Identity Manager, "the provisioning component of the Sun Java Enterprise System, [to deploy] across all GE business units and 450,000 users on a global scale."
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RE[3]: Very Insignificant
by jayson.knight on Tue 2nd Aug 2005 02:38 UTC
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2005-07-06

GE is *not* the largest company in the world. The largest non-govt company is actually wal-mart, but who knows what provisioning software they use.

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RE[4]: Very Insignificant
by ma_d on Tue 2nd Aug 2005 03:18 in reply to "RE[3]: Very Insignificant"
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2005-06-29

They don't, if they did they'd probably have half the country in their database of former employees ;) .
Actually, I do wonder what they use for tracking their former employees. They track every register transaction, you'd think they'd transfer employee transactions and figure out that paying $7-$8 an hour gets you crappy employees who steal from you or quit within 3-6 months.

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RE[4]: Very Insignificant
by kaiwai on Tue 2nd Aug 2005 05:10 in reply to "RE[3]: Very Insignificant"
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2005-07-06

They probably use what most companies use; a big frigging UNIX box loaded with SAP; either that or a big frigging mainframe running some custom written software; either way, it isn't going to cheap.

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RE[5]: Very Insignificant
by on Tue 2nd Aug 2005 08:52 in reply to "RE[4]: Very Insignificant"
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IMHO GE uses Oracle Applications. And for OraApps Solaris is a better choice anyway.

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