Sun/Oracle removed public firmware downloads

Re:Sun/Oracle removed public firmware downloads by pilib on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @05:29AM (#1320719)

Huh. I guess that after recent changes (Solaris downloads, etc.), most people will find alternative vendors in both hardware and software arena.

It's not like there's no competition anyways. It is funny though, that a company like Sun, after acquisition by Oracle is deploying procedures we more commonly associate with IBM, HP, and other behemoths of the IT world.

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Re:Sun/Oracle removed public firmware downloads by viraptor on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @05:51AM (#1320741)

Wait - you don't associate Oracle with a behemoth? You know they target large corporations and will happily recommend you to buy a cluster of 64GB 8+ core machines, right? Have a look at validated configurations... I can think of only one larger database company, but they design stuff for you from scratch.

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Re:Sun/Oracle removed public firmware downloads by pilib on Thursday May 06, 2010 @01:31PM (#1324938)

heh, I do actually, maybe I should have phrased it better ;).

My point was, Sun was trying to be a hip and modern company, open sourcing a lot of their work, and then Oracle bought them and in the best impersonation of Eric Cartman, just said "you damn hippies" :), and fucked all that effort up.

I did expect it to happen, but I'm still sad it did happen.

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