RE: ACs
RE: Hey Matt
"....If you're such a hotshot, why does your full-time occupation involve hanging out here, writing essays, and getting owned constantly?" Wrong question! What you should have asked is "Why does Matt have the time to spare whilst I'm running around like a blue-arsed fly fire-fighting all my Sun kit?" The answer is because our HP OpenView management tools give us a much better view and control of what is happening with both our HP and non-HP kit (even the old Slowaris kit we haven't got rid of yet), and tools like HP's Insight Manager and ISEE mean we get predictive support from HP so we avoid the odd failure by some pro-active service, whilst the superior design of our HP kit means they have much lower component failure rates or software faults than the Sun junk they largely replaced. All this allows us to return much higher abailability, for less money spent, and gives me the extra time to spend enlightening you Sunshiners.
RE: I like Matt
Thank you, but I have to point out a few flaws in your theory.
"....El Reg seems to do a lot of Sun articles while doing very few HP articles....." Well, they seem to do a lot of stories along the lines of "Sun is dying", "Sun's market cap is tiny", "Sun is cutting jobs", "Will FSC buy Sun", mainly because there is a lot of interest in watching a trainwreck in the making. It's the tech equivalent of rubber-necking.
"....My guess is that no one cares about HP...." True, it is hard on the rubber-neckers when all you hear about is how HP is number one in high-end servers, number one in all servers, number one in x86, number one in disk storage, number one in printers, etc, etc. People just expect HP to turn a profit and do well. Meanwhile, the constant comedy of Sun's strategic-flip-flops-cum-deathrows are much more entertaining if only for their unpredictability. People are sitting there saying to themselves "I'll go check the Reg to see which lame-duck company Ponytail has bought this week."
"....I'm a big fan of Sun, so the more Sun news the better!..." That's the spirit! Optimism in the face of overwhelming and certain failure. Try and carry that over to your new job when the Sun sets.
"....Of course IBM actually does seem to provide actual technology to the world, while HP just resells and rebadges other companies tech and adds nothing in return." Now, now, you're asking to be reminded about the printer bizz again, where HP makes more money in a quarter than Sun's server sales did in the whole year. And that's because HP innovated and invented in print technology. I'll also have to point out that HP designed the original Itanium, the chip with which it is now stealing big chunks of marketshare from Sun (especially in that lucrative high-end, remember?). Of course, I do also respect IBM's ability to innovate, but then they're taking marketshare from Sun as well. It is Sun's inability to innovate something of value to the market that is consigning it to the dustbin of history, whilst HP and IBM roll on reporting profitable quarter after profitable quarter.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
