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Rich Sharples’ Blog » Blog Archive » Snoracle — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:27:29 +0000

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By: Asif Shahzad

Asif Shahzad — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:02:41 +0000

I am using NetBeans and Eclipse for last 3 years. I strongly agree, Eclipse is great in performance perspective i.e. extremely light weight. Netbeans is comparatively heavy, every body can’t use it easily, specially those who write software on average systems.
No comment about other points.

By: ff

ff — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:56:09 +0000

forget to mention. Glassfish made jboss a bloated dinasour long time ago.

By: ff

ff — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:54:14 +0000

i am not a Sun employee and i disagree most of your points. Solaris is definitely a better choice than linux in server side. Netbeans already kicked eclipse. JavaFX turned out to be a good technology. Ahh you are from Redhat..

By: sharps

sharps — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:58:40 +0000

@peto – Linux is much bigger than Red Hat : read the following article to understand how many companies and individuals are contributing today to the Linux kernel : http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linuxkerneldevelopment.php

eg. Novell, IBM, Intel, Google, Cisco, Oracle, HP and when you move beyond the kernel – the ecosystem is even bigger. If any of those contributors stopped – Linux would continue to thrive. Solaris is only sustainable as long as Sun can make a profit from it (directly or indirectly).

wrt to # of developers – you are completely missing the benefit of open source – it’s no longer about who can hire the best engineers fastest. It’s about who can harness the power of collaboration.

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/dev/null » Blog Archive » what sun should do? — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:02:51 +0000

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By: Peto

Peto — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:47:52 +0000

#3: Suppose Linux really wins one day – who will drive development then? How many developers does Red Hat have and how many does Sun? Would btrfs or systemtap exist without Solaris? It seems to me that whole point of Linux’s existence is copying ohters…

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451 CAOS Theory » 451 CAOS Links 2008.11.28 — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:19:24 +0000

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Stratocaster · What Should Sun Do? — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:11:41 +0000

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By: Lamfeeling

Lamfeeling — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:38:35 +0000

Drop JavaFX!!! Strongly agree with you!