[rescue] rescue Digest, Vol 124, Issue 3

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On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:21:07AM -0800, Gary Sloane wrote:

<Lots of good info snipped>

> When Sun endorsed the Linux/Opteron market, I wrote a letter to Sun
> stating that it would be the downfall of Sun. If Sun made it look like the
> Linux/Opteron combination was a valid replacement for Solaris/SPARC then
> people would quicly realize it was cheaper to purchase the hardware at
> Fry's rather than from Sun.

This seems so painfully obvious yet the bean-counters totally shanked it.

Someone else wrote:

> > Lastly: Oracle only paid 7.5 billion for Sun.  They probably paid for
> > the entire deal in the first two years.  Even if they lost 90% of Sun's
> > customers afterwards, they still come out way ahead on cost-of-capital.

Business sure is an ugly, ugly thing. I've seen this in my world also. I've
seen the people walking out in droves (or escorted out of the building by
cops) holding boxes of 20 or 30 years worth of career. In a year or two the
products they worked on all those years will have no developers assigned to
them and in another few years won't sell well enough and they'll be
decomissioned. As long as they make the next quarters' numbers, nobody can
be bothered to give a damn.

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