Star Oracle Promises to Commit to SPARC, Solaris
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Sep 2009 19:41 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
SUN Microsystems There we are! It took them a while, but Oracle has finally said a few things about the future of Sun's SPARC and Solaris products. Oracle placed an ad in the European edition of The Wall Street Journal listing four plans the company has with SPARC and Solaris.
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binarycrusader
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2005-07-06

They should have done this sooner, before all of Sun's SPARC and Solaris talent jumped ship.


The core talent hasn't gone anywhere. I have no idea why people continue to believe this.

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Adurbe Member since:
2005-07-06

didn't you know they all jumped to that other sparc specialist... no wait... they prob sat in their jobs continuing to work and be paid.

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poundsmack Member since:
2005-07-13

"didn't you know they all jumped to that other sparc specialist... no wait... they prob sat in their jobs continuing to work and be paid."

ya its a shame no one else makes a SPARC product... oh wait. http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/sparcenterp...

In fact, Sun liked Fujitsu's chips so much... ah forget it, i don't have time to feed the trolls. (thats not true, i do have the time, but i just don't feel like it today).

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segedunum Member since:
2005-07-06

The core talent hasn't gone anywhere. I have no idea why people continue to believe this.

Probably because there's a lot of pretty strong rumours and firm events to suggest that all is not well, and many are people who have been with the company for a long time?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/08/sun_chip_geek_quits/ (this guy definitely qualifies as 'talent')

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/23/bechtolsheim_still_at_sun/ (which seems to be some sort of 'Buy my company' arrangement)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/25/sun_yen_juniper/

They also laid off about 2,000 people in September 2008, a lot of them skilled workers who had been at Sun for some time. Another few thousand went this year, and these were just the latest in a long line of culls over the past few years.

Quite how you can say that there isn't a problem with talent leaving, distractions and morale there I don't know. It's an open 'pretend' secret in many circles and the result of a classic case of being in a market where costs are too high but not being able to maintain what you have when you cut.

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binarycrusader Member since:
2005-07-06

"The core talent hasn't gone anywhere. I have no idea why people continue to believe this.

Probably because there's a lot of pretty strong rumours and firm events to suggest that all is not well, and many are people who have been with the company for a long time?
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Quite how you can say that there isn't a problem with talent leaving, distractions and morale there I don't know. It's an open 'pretend' secret in many circles and the result of a classic case of being in a market where costs are too high but not being able to maintain what you have when you cut. "

I'll put it very plainly, I know *many* of the engineers that work on Solaris at Sun and they haven't gone anywhere. The media likes to make big noise about people that leave whenever a company is having problems, but that's all it is: noise.

It's true that Sun has laid off many people, but so did a lot of other companies over the last two years (hello, recession!). Yet, despite that, I can tell you with certainty that Sun has kept its core talent, and none of them really want to leave.

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