Gordon Haff
Gordon Haff
asset base great huge protection provides system upgrade
This announcement of yet another no-hassle SPARC system upgrade provides great asset protection to Sun's huge base of applications and customers.
cell certainly model relatively
Programming Cell is relatively hard. Certainly a higher-level, more abstracted model makes programming a lot easier.
companies content happy jobs leave people reasonably
People do not typically leave companies if they are deliriously happy with their roles, but sometimes even people who are reasonably content with their jobs find better opportunities that come along.
changing direction general number people scope small struggling
I see this as fine-tuning more than changing direction. Obviously, they're struggling financially, but in general this is a small number of people in the scope of things at Sun.
cement certainly chip current fast helps strong
A fast chip got faster. This certainly helps to cement their strong current position.
buying consider deliver focused leverage lined managers market money price research saving spend work
Dell has had a very focused strategy: Don't spend a lot on research and development, leverage the work of others, and deliver cookie-cutter servers and desktops cheaply. That lined up well with the market when saving money was in. But IT managers have to consider more than price now in making buying decisions.
boxes buying coming era good problems run selling solving
Dell has had a really good run selling essentially cookie-cutter rack-mount servers. But the era of solving problems by just buying more boxes is coming to a close.
anybody chip exactly knows open result technology
I don't think anybody knows exactly what the end result of open sourcing the chip technology is.
assume company financial good paint preferred reality results track until waited
I assume Scott will paint it as things are back on track and the company is in good hands, but I think the reality is he would have preferred to have waited until the financial results were really there.
apple developers intel transition windows
If developers don't make the transition to Apple and Intel, they'll probably be making the transition to Windows and Intel. Intel doesn't have a lot to lose.