This is inevitable that SUN is looking for selling itself as consecutively 4 quarters they reported loss. I wish I could buy SUN ;) It has huge assets used and unused and lots of stuffs that another company may take decades and billions to recreate. IBM is preying on SUN. I am calling it preying as IBM has that bad boy attitude to acquire and kill the way they did with Rational likes. As a SUN admirer I do not wish to see IBM buying SUN. My solely personal opinion is - CISCO should buy it. I am a CISCO employee incidentally but this is my solely personal opinion. What benefits CISCO may get out this buy out and what we SUN admirers may get.
1) CISCO is foraying into server market - if CISCO buys SUN, CISCO can use SUN's mature server ranges along with legendary Solaris. Data center will be sexier than ever with all CISCO+SUN products.
2) Virtualization - CISCO needs it and working on it but in my opinion CISCO will take decade to reach what SUN has already reached if at all it reaches there.
3) Software development legacy - SUN has sound software development legacy and CISCO can not afford to sale only hardware so this can be inherited from SUN.
4) Intellectual Properties - do I need to say anything here!!
5) Love - through Solaris and then mighty Java, SUN acquired huge number of lovers worldwide. CISCO may get that love by buying SUN.
6) Benefit we (SUN admirers) get - IBM would kill SUN's philosophy if it buys it. CISCO I believe will not, rather will allow SUN to grow on its own and leverage the SUN's deeds and we will still get the SUN flavors undistorted.
7) CISCO has strong sales force with very good connections to governments and big industries worldwide. This would play a pivotal role to lift SUN sales up fueling its growth and continuing the R&D thats at the heart of SUN philosophy.
If it has to be sold out SUN should consider selling it to CISCO. If at all they can not afford selling it to Chiradip ;)
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Soft hardware ;)
Software products are getting complex everyday in terms of setting up, configuration, operation and maintenance. What if working on software gives us the feel of working like a well packaged hardware like iPod?
What is my definition of soft hardware?
1) Of the shelf usable.
2) Works with my laptop or desktop or server just upon connecting them.
3) No installation of software and no configuration for general use.
Examples
1) An integrated development environment with 1 or 2 test servers integrated with it (think of websphere integration developer - if you are aware). It is pain to install manage and work daily mainly due to the configuration. Now if that can be obtained in a USB stick and you just have to connect it with your computer and you are all set to go, you can do whatever you want. Not working! just remove the media and start afresh.
2) Pre configured webserver on a card
What is my definition of soft hardware?
1) Of the shelf usable.
2) Works with my laptop or desktop or server just upon connecting them.
3) No installation of software and no configuration for general use.
Examples
1) An integrated development environment with 1 or 2 test servers integrated with it (think of websphere integration developer - if you are aware). It is pain to install manage and work daily mainly due to the configuration. Now if that can be obtained in a USB stick and you just have to connect it with your computer and you are all set to go, you can do whatever you want. Not working! just remove the media and start afresh.
2) Pre configured webserver on a card
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