Miko Matsumura Platform Software Executive Technologist

Sun Oracle Snorkel CEO Email makes me sick

Jeremy Geelan posted Jonathan Schwartz’s email to all Sun employees announcing the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. Frankly this email makes me very angry. Please consider that analysts are responding to Oracle’s profitability plan: Oracle expects the Sun deal to contribute $1.5 billion toward its earnings next year and $2 billion in the second year of the acquisition, making it “more profitable in per-share contribution in the first year than we had planned for...

Sun Oracle –”Snorkel” stretches limits of credulity

Snorkel will be a bloody mess! Oracle has no systems experience. What are the possible drivers for a SNORKEL (Sun Oracle)? * Oracle Hardware? Oracle is claiming that highly specialized and tuned hardware can turn in up to 100x performance. So why not mash up Sun systems and Oracle to extend the Oracle appliance concept, already announced in partnership with HP. >>my comment is this is not enough. With Oracle’s lack of experience in systems, this will be exceedingly hard for...

Helping Dolphins Fly

Does anyone else see the irony in Jonathan Schwartz’s blog entry titled : Helping Dolphins Fly? (about the MySQL acquisition). http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing This image is all-too-close to the image of the other flying cetacean du jour, the Fail Whale. It’s also evocative of another kind of proposed flying mammal: I’m sorry if this is all coming across as vitriolic or non-constructive. I’m just expressing a collective...

Sun IBM Collapse Heralds the Return of McNealy. Jonathan Schwartz is Toast.

The Wall st Journal reports two board factions at odds in Sun Microsystems, one in favor of the IBM deal led by Jonathan Schwartz, the other opposing, led by Scooter McNealy. Pundits are already spinning this FAIL WHALE as a repeat of the Microsoft Yahoo! debacle starring another egotistical company founder, Jerry Yang. Butting heads with Scott McNealy at Sun Microsystems is ill advised. Even if you are the CEO. With Schwartz touting an exit with IBM as being the company’s best...

Google in talks to buy Twitter (hope) in the shadow of IBM buying Sun (fear)

Eric Schmidt has had quite an amazing ride since becoming CTO of Sun Microsystems. So has @Ev, Evan Williams who launched the blogging phenomenon with Blogger.com (sold to Google) and is in “late stage” talks to sell Twitter.com to Google (again!). Looks like Google is rising while Sun is sinking… Is Sun a Fail Whale? Now it is rumored that the 1500 layoffs announced by Sun Microsystems recently were part and parcel of the negotiations with IBM. Also rumored is a late-stage...