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Comment Dear Scott (Score 1) 408

by heybo (#34500792) Attached to: Ex-Sun CEO Warns Oracle of Death By Open Source
Dear Scott

The poster is right you and Jonathan Schwartz were the ones that killed it. I was a Solaris Engineer for over 15 years. Our shops back end ran on Solaris (around 300 machines) but we are now in the process of phasing out Solaris for Linux thanks to you. All the training I have with your system is now worth nothing.

I read the article and you missed what killed your company. You didn't do any marketing. Now I am one that hates the marketing department but still it does have it place especially when playing with the big boys that also use it.

When we would try to sell your products our customers would ask "Sun who?". Look at Cisco everyone knows the name. The average Joe's knows the name Cisco. They have no idea what Cisco does or sells but Joe knows the name from the cute little media ads "The Human Network".

I asked many times to your sales and engineers people "Why not get your name out?" and was told "Management doesn't think it is a good idea." Well no one knew your name so why buy Sun? Sun who????

Damn guys why didn't you run ads showing where you all shined. Little robots on Mars designed to run 90 days and RAN FOR YEARS! The fact that your old tag line was still true you guys where "The Dot in Dot Com" and still are to a degree. If you get on the Internet you touch a Sun box somewhere Everyone uses you but the average person don't know who you are even if they were using your products. I have talked to people that have bought Cisco stock and have NO IDEA what Cisco makes or sells. They have just heard the name over and over again and heard from there broker they are a good investment. How can anyone buy from you if they don't know your name asshole. Hell it was easier selling Linux more people have heard of it more than Sun and you've been around longer and Linux has no marketing budget and Sun had one. Seems the problem lies with you asshole. You should have done your job and got your good name to the public.

The truth is you could have made money with Sun if you tried. I fully believe you've been setting up this sell for awhile to line your own pockets with gold and to hell with your customers (oh wrong word "Consumers") and to hell with your employees.

You said in your article you did it for the stockholders and the employees. Well most of the good employees didn't get to keep their jobs. They quit. They couldn't work for an asshat company like Orcale. So did that work for you??? No. so shut up about jobs. Yes your "Customers" the stockholders did ok. You and Jonathan will never hurt for anything sitting on your pile of cash.

You wrote 'You gotta take care of your shareholders or you end up very vulnerable like we got." This is where you went wrong. You should have taken care of your NAME and branding and the people that used your products and sold them to the public. People like me. No matter how much money shareholders put into a company it isn't going to be for shit if your NOT SELLING PRODUCTS! People can't sell your name if no one knows it you fuck up.

So quit your crying and quit doing interviews its all you fault so go cry to your money and just shut up and go away. Your done here. No one likes you no one wants to hear from you. just go and spend you money on someone like yourself a two dollar whore and have a good time on us.

Oh yes please tell your buddy Jonathan that if I see him I will cut that pony tail off of his head. He doesn't deserve to wear it. He's no pony tailed geek. He's just another corporate asshole.

b0

Damn I do feel better now!

Comment The truth will set you free. (Score 1) 396

by heybo (#31818474) Attached to: "Father of Java" Resigns From Sun/Oracle

As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: just about an anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good.

The only harm honesty and truthfulness would bring is showing what lying and thieving asshole Oracle is.
It is wrong to tell the truth and bring harm on others that are harming others with their lies and money?

Comment Re:50 million can't use a computer? Ain't it funny (Score 1) 900

by heybo (#25542137) Attached to: WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes
I would like to point out that serving in war is a good thing before sending young people into battle. Look at the present state of affairs. Maybe if Bush hadn't been a coward and hid in the National Guard and had smelled the burning flesh of his best friend maybe he would have thought twice before sending people into a war over a lie. War is something that cannot be described it has to be experienced. Once you have experienced it the horror never leaves you. I know been there done that.

Counterfeit Cisco Gear Showing Up In US 182

Posted by kdawson from the procurement-via-eBay dept.
spazimodo writes to point out a Network World report on the growing problem of counterfeit networking equipment. The article surveys the whole grey-market phenomenon, which is by no means limited to Cisco gear — they just happen to be its biggest target. From the article: "Thirty cards turned out to be counterfeit... Despite repeated calls and e-mails to his supplier, Atec Group, the issue was not resolved... How did a registered Cisco reseller (also a platinum Network Appliance partner and gold partner to Microsoft and Symantec) acquire the counterfeit [WAN interface cards] in the first place?... Phony network equipment [has] been quietly creeping into sales and distribution channels since early 2004... Counterfeit gear has become a big problem that could put networks — and health and safety — at risk. 'Nobody wants to say they've got counterfeit gear inside their enterprises that can all of a sudden stop working. But it's all over the place, just like pirated software is everywhere,' says Sharon Mills, director of IT procurement organization Caucus."

Microsoft Wins Record Amount from Hotmail Spammer 79

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the losing-battles dept.
mytrip writes to tell us News.com is reporting that Microsoft has won a record $87,177 against spammer Paul Fox who used a hotmail account to direct users to his pornographic download site. From the article: "But while Microsoft has clearly won, the case highlights a failure in the British legal system to tackle spam. Despite efforts by the Information Commissioner's Office to gain power from the Department of Trade & Industry to deal with spam, Information Commissioner Richard Thomas remains hamstrung."

Business 2.0 Says 'Boycott Vista' 756

Posted by Zonk from the business-gets-surly dept.
amyandjake writes "Business 2.0 has a story about Vista's delays, the amount of time wasted by Microsoft bringing Vista to market, and the fact that it doesn't seem to have any compelling features for upgrading. The last paragraph of the story says 'Boycott Vista. Keep your old Windows XP PC around. Don't buy a new one. That's the only way we have to let Microsoft know Vista is an overhyped, late, and pointless update to XP — a perfectly fine operating system.'" Relatedly, torrensmith writes "Paul Thurrott is at it again with his seemingly never-ending supply of information about Windows Vista. This time, he discusses the things he dislikes about the program, in the article The Dark Side of Windows Vista RC1."

Do-It-Yourself Robotics 90

Posted by samzenpus from the homemade-droids dept.
PreacherTom writes "Imagine Legos and Erector Sets on crack. The fruit of a collaboration between Lego and the MIT Media Lab, the Toronto-based startup Playful Invention Company is offering the PicoCricket, "a kit of parts that can be used to build an infinite variety of robotic inventions. The kit contains an assortment of pom poms, pipe cleaners, and other craft materials reminiscent of a summer camp art period. It also includes a collection of Lego bricks and electronics: the Cricket "brain" and a motor, colored lights and a soundbox, a digital display, and an infrared beamer that allows the Cricket to communicate with a PC on which kids write the programs that control their invention's behavior. Perhaps the most important parts in the Cricket kit are the four sensors, which detect light, sound, touch, and electrical resistance. "It was lots of fun making things and controlling their action," says Grover Venkatasubramaniam (age 10). "The most fun was programming the robots. It felt like giving life to lifeless bodies.""

More Wiki Than Ever 170

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the fact-checking-a-lost-art dept.
Earlier today Slashdot took a look at a change being implemented on the German version of Wikipedia which raised quite a few eyebrows. Many of the implications, however, led the readers to believe things that just are not necessarily true. Wikipedia founder Jimmy 'Jimbo' Wales took a minute to help set the record straight. Jimbo writes: "Recent media reports have been quite confused about the new feature we will be testing in the German Wikipedia. Some explanation is in order. Wikipedia is undergoing change. The fundamental nature of that change, the fundamental trend of that change, is to open up more than before, and to become more of a wiki than ever before. If you have read otherwise in the mainstream media, well, digital culture is hard to understand, and it is no wonder that errors are made so often."

Unlock Internet or Risk Losing Staff? 519

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the productivity-still-the-bottom-line dept.
Dan Warne writes "People don't want to work for employers who heavily restrict internet access, a senior Microsoft executive said in a keynote speech at the opening of Tech.Ed 2006 Sydney today. From the article: 'These kids are saying: forget it! I don't want to work with you. I don't want to work at a place where I can't be freely online during the day," said Microsoft Senior Design Anthropologist Ann Kiera. She dubbed internet-wary employers "digital immigrants" and said the new wave of younger workers were "digital natives".'"

iPods at War 364

Posted by samzenpus from the what-are-you-listening-to-soldier dept.
phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica has put together an outstanding piece of journalism about the use of personal technology in America's military and how these devices along with blatant piracy is causing new problems in the face of war: "While soldiers once deployed with little more than a backpack and a rifle, today's crop of infantry troops pack along MP3 players, digital cameras, DVD players, video games, movie collections, and computers of their own. The personal electronics have made modern American warfare the most comfortable it has ever been, but they've also brought a new set of problems onto the battlefield.""

Poker Driving Artificial Intelligence Research 212

Posted by samzenpus from the I-wouldn't-fold-yet-dave dept.
J-Hawker writes "The Canadian Press has a story about a University of Alberta team that is using Texas Hold-'em to study artificial intelligence. Poker seems to be a much more useful game for this research than chess. From the article: 'Poker has what are currently some of the biggest challenges to (artificial intelligence) systems, and uncertainty is the primary hurdle that we're facing,' said Michael Bowling, adding that the University of Alberta program was able to use its opponents' actions to infer certain things about their hands. 'The same techniques, the same principles that we're developing to build poker systems are the same principles that can be applied to many other problems. The nice thing about chess as a property of the game is what we call perfect information. You look at the board, you know where all the pieces are, you know whose turn it is — you have complete knowledge of the game,' he said. 'But in the real world, knowing everything is just so rare. Everything we do all day long is all about partial information. So poker's much more representative of what the real world's like, and in that sense it becomes a much harder problem.'"

PlayStation 3 Manufacturing Not Started Yet? 210

Posted by Zonk from the that's-err-not-so-good-kaz dept.
aapold writes "Despite reports to the contrary, Sony Computer Entertainment American president Kaz Hirai states in an interview on Gamespot last week that 'We haven't started manufacturing yet. Some of our ops guys were actually just in China, and also in Japan just reviewing the [production] lines and everything else. But they are, again, preparing as we speak to get the manufacturing going. We've not announced and we haven't set really a specific date to say, 'As of this day we're going to start manufacturing.'"

Does the NSA Need More Electricity? 324

Posted by CmdrTaco from the paranoid-much-lately dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Baltimore sun (NSA watchers can't live without it) reports that the NSA worries about overloading the Baltimore energy grid if it were to install new computing capacity at it's Fort Meade HQ. This includes two multi million dollar supercomputers. Some systems are reportedly not getting the cooling they need. The temperature in NSA buildings is raised two degrees to conserve energy, according to the article. The NSA is Baltimore Gas and Electric`s (BGE) biggest customer the sun reports. Former NSA employees fear that a power outage at Fort Meade would have worse consequences than the 2000 "information overload" related outage. The NSA does apparently not have the backup power generation capacity to power the whole facility during power outages. Some point a finger at a new mall build in the area, but a BGE spokesman says the mall is "fairly easily accommodated". Some sources say the problem was identified in the late 90`s. But "keeping the lights on" wasn't a priority. A $4 million computer upgrade to the system that allocates power was postponed for budgetary reasons. (the NSA budged is estimated at $8 Billion) The article reports that the budget documents for listening posts around the world report similar infrastructural problems, in the budgets for 07 as well as previous years. It should be noted that the huge "groundbreaker" IT infrastructure upgrade program is reportedly over budget and late, but not yet fully operational."

RIP CGW 55

Posted by Zonk from the new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss dept.
Heartless Gamer writes "Ziff Davis Shuts Down CGW, Opens Games For Windows. The Ziff Davis Game Group, which produces consumer game site 1UP and Electronic Gaming Monthly and Official PlayStation Magazine in North America, has announced that it is shutting down its US print magazine Computer Gaming World and replacing it with an officially Microsoft-branded 'Games For Windows' magazine and website."

The De-Evolution of the Ocean 290

Posted by Zonk from the everything-is-fine-nero dept.
An anonymous reader writes to mention an LA Times article entitled 'A Primeval Tide of Toxins.' The article looks at changing conditions in the world's oceans, and the resulting explosion in the growth of algae, jellyfish, and other primitive lifeforms. From the article: "In many places -- the atolls of the Pacific, the shrimp beds of the Eastern Seaboard, the fjords of Norway -- some of the most advanced forms of ocean life are struggling to survive while the most primitive are thriving and spreading. Fish, corals and marine mammals are dying while algae, bacteria and jellyfish are growing unchecked. Where this pattern is most pronounced, scientists evoke a scenario of evolution running in reverse, returning to the primeval seas of hundreds of millions of years ago. Jeremy B.C. Jackson, a marine ecologist and paleontologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, says we are witnessing 'the rise of slime.'" The article is parting of a just-beginning series on our changing world called Altered Oceans.

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