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Comment Why abandon SPARC? (Score 5, Interesting) 280

by makinsky on Thursday May 07, 2009 @11:00PM (#27872179) Attached to: Oracle Won't Abandon SPARC, Says Ellison

During their initial press release Larry Ellison said: "Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system - applications to disk - where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves..."

Doesn't that sound like they did actually want to keep all the Sun's hardware business including SPARC from the very beginning?

Submission + - Nortel filed for Chapter 11, change equipment? (telecomasia.net)

Submitted by makinsky on Sunday January 25, 2009 @12:56PM

makinsky writes: Nortel Networks filed for Chapter 11 in Canada & US on 14 January 2009.
Although not an unexpected move due to their continued revenues drop, this has gone unnoticed on Slashdot!
As a giant telecom and network equipment maker that might disappear from the market (and that will surely be welcomed by the competition), this deserves to be mentioned, imho.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/14/technology/nortel_bankruptcy.reut/index.htm
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10142422-94.html

Comment Re:Mandatory (Score 1) 118

by makinsky on Sunday January 25, 2009 @11:27AM (#26598235) Attached to: Mozilla Labs Wants To Monitor (Volunteers') Firefox Use

In Soviet Russia, open source monitors you!

No, no. In Soviet Russia, monitors open source you!

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