Views on the Industry

je ne comprende pas

One message from today's announcement: Orion is dead. The much ballyhoued initiative from JS, that apparently warranted his rise to President has been killed, gone are subscriptions for software licenses, in favor of enterprise contracts with Sun Services. I guess his boys on Wall St. who were claiming that most of Sun's profits would come from software can't quite keep up with its all-aware COO. Now, SLA's are the only thing left of iPlanet. What a shame - - what a joke. Making AS 8.1, EE free is yet another nod toward BEA's business. I will take official credit on this Blog for making Sun's app server free, and I give PP credit for making it OSS. The only thing that could have made this announcement anything but yet another non-release of info. would have been to describe Glassfish indemnification. Are we to presume Sun will do this? Or will that hurt WebLogic too much? As far as making Solaris a platform of choice, why not do reference architectures, (see first link in my post, here:
http://douglasdooley.blogspot.com/2005/11/step-2.html

to demonstrate the integration of the platform. It just makes me look forward to better days everytime JS gets on stage and proves another one of his volume theories with vaporware. Even MSFT has web-sites dedicated to software integration, how can Sun not? Let me be clear to those in Sun and those outside supporting it, and those external on life support because of continued non-moves by the supposed-to-be software leader, the days (more likely, years, unfortunately) of inaction are numbered. Whether it is me, Marc, or some girl from Beijing, there will be a change that will sweep away possible plays of inaction by Sun, and will lead the charge through the development community to a new mantra of determination (more to come), based on skills and not politics. I am tired of hearing nothing coming out, except from MB, about the strongest portfolio in the market. I am tired of gearing up for something big, and having another let-down. It's already time for a change. It will just take longer than anticipated back in 1999, but make no mistake JL, JS, and all the infrastructure that supports the current software administration, we shall be back, and this time we'll be stronger than you...

posted by douglas dooley @ 1:38 PM