Sun has a plane flying over Corp Dell

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mugs

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Originally posted by: Ronstang
I guess Sun is getting desparate. They will not even be in business much longer. All their good people jumped ship becuase they know Sun's days are numbered.

Where'd you get this information?
 

Ronstang

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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: Ronstang
I guess Sun is getting desparate. They will not even be in business much longer. All their good people jumped ship becuase they know Sun's days are numbered.

Where'd you get this information?


From people inside the company, and they are all outside the company now. Sun is imploding.
 

Gibson486

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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: Ronstang
I guess Sun is getting desparate. They will not even be in business much longer. All their good people jumped ship becuase they know Sun's days are numbered.

Where'd you get this information?


I wouldn't say all their good people jumped ship, but the the future of Sun is not looking that postive.
 

AMCRambler

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That's friggin hillarious. It could only be funnier if the plane was dropping flaming bags of poo with the Sun logo on them!
 

BrokenVisage

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Originally posted by: Phoenix86
LOL, "our airspace" :laugh:

I know right, cause Dell has private jets flying in and out of the Round Rock TX Campus around the clock. :roll:
 

ultimatebob

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Originally posted by: cjgallen
Originally posted by: MoPHo
Originally posted by: jacob0401
shoot it down!

too bad dell doesn't make RPGs. Then all you'd have to do is format it, get all the drivers, point and shoot.

:laugh:


Oh. and call some bozo in India to help when the weapon locks up when you try to shoot it :)
 

FoBoT

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Originally posted by: AMCRambler
That's friggin hillarious. It could only be funnier if the plane was dropping flaming bags of poo with the Sun logo on them!

or turkeys with the sun logo on them. and a coupon, people love coupons
 

mercanucaribe

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Originally posted by: AMCRambler
That's friggin hillarious. It could only be funnier if the plane was dropping flaming bags of poo with the Sun logo on them!

Which is more expensive, an Apple flaming bag of poo or a Sun flaming bag of poo?
 

OutHouse

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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: Ronstang
I guess Sun is getting desparate. They will not even be in business much longer. All their good people jumped ship becuase they know Sun's days are numbered.

Where'd you get this information?

I hear the same things, a good friend of mine is pretty high on the food chain at Sun and works at the broomfield Colorado campus. she tells me all sorts of things that are happening within sun and its not pretty.
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: iamwiz82
And it'll be just as slow as the last generation, or the generation before that.

I hate our Sun crap. Why do designers need a $15,000 workstation when we could get the same thing on x86 for 1/5 the price.

Actually, the sun servers in question are x86-64.
 

zoiks

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I love Sun servers. They've been the best machines we've had and are rock solid.
 

ElFenix

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:thumbsup:

i used to work up there. i'd go over to the dickey's barbeque for lunch and get the free drink with dell badge. good stuff.
 

trmiv

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There was one of those flying around Downtown Oakland today too. Didn't say "Watch Out Dell" on it, but it did mention the new 64 bit server.
 

manno

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Originally posted by: iamwiz82
And it'll be just as slow as the last generation, or the generation before that.

I hate our Sun crap. Why do designers need a $15,000 workstation when we could get the same thing on x86 for 1/5 the price.

that's kind of why their using opterons now.
 

manno

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Originally posted by: Yzzim
thought you meant Sun Country airlines. Was wondering what they had against Dell :confused:

That's hilarious though, definitely need pics.



No that's hillarious.
 

manno

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Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Originally posted by: AMCRambler
That's friggin hillarious. It could only be funnier if the plane was dropping flaming bags of poo with the Sun logo on them!

Which is more expensive, an Apple flaming bag of poo or a Sun flaming bag of poo?

they cost the same, but one is better marketed, and aimed at "consumers"