Ellison to recruit thousands for Sun integration army Larry Ellison has promised jobs for Sun Microsystems' existing employees and an expansion in their ranks, along with instant profits for his shareholders. Oracle's chief executive on Wednesday claimed that - far from laying off beleaguered Sun employees - his company would be hiring 2,000 additional people during the next few …
I work at a university, and used to be able to buy direct from Sun, which was great. You'd ask the sales droid a technical question, they'd go "huh, dunno" and pass you off to a "sales engineer" that usually knew what they were talking about and could actually help you configure a good setup for your needs, not just for their sales margin. At some point about 7 years ago, they shoved us off onto their "value added" sales channel, at which point it became a royal pain to actually buy anything. I think I've now gone through three of these different vendors, and one of them was finally OK. So yeah, if Oracle can improve on this, and Sun's products are still good, this could be an overall good thing.
Beer, because I'm toasting to the pony-tailed one hopefully being unable to screw Sun up any further...
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