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Blogging Roller Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/feed/entries/atom 2026-05-18T08:23:39+00:00 Apache Roller https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/latest_links37 Latest Links: Sun and clouds Dave Johnson 2009-03-19T16:00:04+00:00 2009-03-21T14:51:29+00:00 <ul> <li><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/19/ibm-sun-culture-technology-cionetwork-ibm.html">Forbes.com: A Rorschach Test for IBM and Sun</a><br>"Even as Sun has stiffened into a slow-moving, self-entangled behemoth over the past decade, IBM has gradually shifted into the nimble mode of a start-up."</li> <br> <li><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_11945653">IBM's bid to acquire Sun might cost jobs - The Denver Post</a><br>"Sun is known for having a lot of cool technology but not much recognition in the market for it."</li> <br> <li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=14817">ZDNet.com - IBM's potential purchase of Sun: Here's why it makes sense</a><br>"One problem: There's a lot of software overlap here. In databases, IBM has DB2 and Sun has MySQL"</li> <br> <li><a href="http://java.dzone.com/news/ibm-buy-sun">Javalobby - IBM in Talks to Buy Sun?</a><br>(in the comments) "Sun's energy would have been much better spent investing in writing proper Eclipse plugins for things such as Python/Groovy/Matisse/JavaFX/etc. instead of pushing their own IDE"</li> <br> <li><a href="http://www.sas.com/news/preleases/CCF2009.html">SAS to build $70 million cloud computing facility</a><br>"the facility will be built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for water and energy conservation"</li> <br> <li><a href="http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2009/03/customizing_your_cloud.html">Atlassian Developer Blog - Customizing your cloud</a><br>"we've released support for running builds in the cloud with the Elastic Bamboo feature"</li> <br> <li><a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/03/16/Sun-Cloud">Tim Bray The Sun Cloud</a><br>"We're going to be rolling out a Sun Cloud offering later this year"</li> </ul>