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By: Deletium » Blog Archive » My Own Personal Easter Egg

Deletium » Blog Archive » My Own Personal Easter Egg — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:46:15 +0000

[...] was a semi-recent post to TechCrunchIT by Steve Gilmore about how software companies are transitioning from big bang [...]

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:51:38 +0000

I think I could’ve handled the video if it was about 1/2 or 1/3 the length.
Beyond that it gave me a headache and I was sorry I’d watched for more than a minute.

By: myinnervoice

myinnervoice — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:31:38 +0000

Clara comments are lucid. Open Source is an elegant concept. The challenge was in execution and in the definition of “free”.
Sun is one of the nicest company to work for, if we can keep alive our jobs. Open Source must be adapted by (1) not leaving the probability of profits in the hands of developers and content creators only, (2) sell branded services and branded utilities instead as selling the products themselves. How? I think the sale of branded software products will diminish and we all use Cloud Computing Services to “emanate” services , just as the Sun emanates light. In forum like this, it takes a few minutes to state ideas. Jonathan has great ideas. What it is need a clever, seductive, for profit, implementation of Services. Google, Yahoo, etc did it for day to day apps. Sun is perhaps best equipped to deliver the services in Enterprise Applications and High Performance computing, sparing customers of the enormous headache of setting up complex, complicated, one of kind data center monsters gobbling money and people. I am amazed how no one in the industry has not noticed this valuable potential of Sun.

By: Old Sunner

Old Sunner — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:45:01 +0000

It’s sad to watch Sun die before us.
Will the technology business be a better with or without Sun.
I think worse off without Sun, so sad..

By: Links List 10.31.08 | ScienceLogic

Links List 10.31.08 | ScienceLogic — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:11:05 +0000

[...] open source and his ponytail. The driest Sesame Street take-off you’ll ever see. Check out the video here. For those of you playing a drinking game at home, [...]

By: FunnyGuy

FunnyGuy — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:50:21 +0000

Steve,

You’ve earned my admiration… It’s OPEN SOURCE

By: Never Mind That $1.7 Billion Loss, Jonathan Schwartz Has A New Plan To Save Sun

Never Mind That $1.7 Billion Loss, Jonathan Schwartz Has A New Plan To Save Sun — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:35:42 +0000

[...] lays it out in the exclusive video interview above, which he conducted a couple weeks ago with TechCrunchIT editor Steve Gillmor. Okay, the interview is with Schwartz’s puppet. But it is an exclusive [...]

By: Clara

Clara — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:28:45 +0000

Thanks for the video…classic and reminiscent of the follies in the Muppet Show. This is a nice way to illustrate the challenges in innovation, which is usually incremental because phenomenal “big bang” innovation is really difficult, unless you are basically creating an entirely newly, never-before-addressed market. Sun is an odd duck. Sun suggests that open source offerings will lead to a higher propensity to buy Sun’s hardware products. But they are also challenged because “free” also lowers the barriers to entry for their competitors in similar markets, and you’re not earning any money. On the production side, there is just way too much reliance on the good will of content creators to develop a strong product. Also, free doesn’t create brand loyalty, and as Apple has demonstrated in the consumer iPhone market: you can create expensive, high value products that people are willing to buy.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:48:49 +0000

Hahaha! Too funny – well done Steve!

By: scott

scott — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:09:50 +0000

The dominant architecture of the mobile Net won’t include Silverlight? I thought Silverlight *was* the future of mobile architectures?? Or was that Mesh? Nevermind.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:43:07 +0000

Aahahaha :) Excellent video

By: Sekhar Ravinutala

Sekhar Ravinutala — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:01:45 +0000

I guess it takes the Suns, IBMs, and Oracles of the enterprise world a while to acknowledge social media and the rest of the revolution. Though IBM, to its credit, seems to be pretty active. E.g., their “Employee-Centered Social Media” initiatives and the “Bluehouse” (https://bluehouse.lotus.com/) thing. I signed up for Bluehouse, will see where they take it.

By: Aad 't Hart

Aad 't Hart — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:08:09 +0000

Steve,

I like this.. it’s all about small steps forward… so if you are on a path to fail, at least you fail quickly.. ;-)