IPS

Managed to make a fool of myself today mixing up blastwave.org with blastwave.network.com in a question on the opensolaris.org indiana forum. I'm although not convinced that blastwave.org is fully operational as IPS package repository for an updated OpenSolaris 2008.05 installation i.e. one upgraded to snv_91.

OpenSolaris rules

There was another one of those "Blame OpenSolaris for all you can think about" articles on /. today http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/24/1723226

I find it most amusing that the Linux kids never grow up enough to work with real UNIX. It's as if everything isn't exactly as in their favorite distro, it's bad. And then they blame OpenSolaris for their own shortcomings. And throw up on ZFS just because. Is it to much Jolt, or?

Ranting about that they cannot add whatever they want is so kiddish. Solaris is a state of the art UNIX system and one of the most stable environment around. There must be control and if that's to hard to understand, stay with the toys.

VirtualBox

The acquisition of German based Innotek with its VirtualBox was a nice move by Sun. I'm now downloading it for both OpenSolaris and Windows XP to test run OpenSolaris on XP and XP on OpenSolaris (plus some Ubuntu I think). Will be interesting...

Symptomatic???

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Nice move

CEO Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems has announced that they will buy the Swedish software company MySQL AB, http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/date/20080116.
I think that is one of the best moves Sun has done in a long time. Much better than changing SUNW to JAVA as stock ticker or buying STK.

Not sharing shares

Sun Microsystems [NASDAQ: JAVA] has started to buy back lots of it own shares. I got a proposition to sell my JAVA shares from them. Wonder why? The price is falling drastically as most other shares in the US lately. What's the reason to by back your own shares? Can it be that you have a lot of cash and when the stock price is going down it's easier to become a target for a hostile takeover. Having loads of "useless" stock shares instead of cash can prevent companies like IBM and HP to be to interested in Sun, or?

Developer team

Put =STARCALCTEAM() in a cell and find out who did the development of Calc.