Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Apr 2009 19:00 UTC
With today's surprise announcement that Oracle will acquire Sun Microsystems, several questions were raised as to some Sun products, including MySQL, Solaris, and OpenOffice.org. Browsing around the net, there are several viewpoints on the future of these Sun products, and the OpenOffice.org team has even issued a statement itself.
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RE[6]: Sun Ã��ïÂÂ&iq
by akrosdbay on Wed 22nd Apr 2009 15:11
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Ask yourself - where are they located? you and I might go to the Sun blogs but are the people who make the decisions going to be visiting the same things you and I do? This is the one thing I have berated Sun over for years - their lack of realising that advertising in IT oriented magazines aren't going to get the managers who make the decisions interested in your technology.
You need to get into management magazines like NZIM - heck, and if it involves having to have a article/marketing blurb of a customer who moved to your technology - and an article in the words of the manager for managers. Advertising on blogs that none of the decision makers in a larger organisation is an exercise in futility.
Can't argue with you about that. Hopefully Oracle has a larger Advertising budget and can get the word out.
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http://blogs.sun.com/chrisg/entry/zfs_pool_in_an_iscsi
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http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/zfs.jsp
"Compatibility
Applications do not need to be changed or modified to use Solaris ZFS and take advantage of its industry-leading capabilities. It employs familiar POSIX interfaces, and existing storage infrastructure — device drivers, storage fabric, and devices — work without requiring changes. For applications that prefer to operate directly on block devices, Solaris ZFS provides the Zvol volume emulator, which delivers all of the benefits of transactional integrity and checksums, and is compatible with existing block-based, volume manager interfaces."
Ask yourself - where are they located? you and I might go to the Sun blogs but are the people who make the decisions going to be visiting the same things you and I do? This is the one thing I have berated Sun over for years - their lack of realising that advertising in IT oriented magazines aren't going to get the managers who make the decisions interested in your technology.
You need to get into management magazines like NZIM - heck, and if it involves having to have a article/marketing blurb of a customer who moved to your technology - and an article in the words of the manager for managers. Advertising on blogs that none of the decision makers in a larger organisation is an exercise in futility.