Tuesday 7th April 2009 at 22:37 = Can a diplodocus and a brachiosaur make a velociraptor?
Following recent offers and talks, Sun and IBM might merge, and/or might do something useful. Both companies should decide whether they do hardware and software. If they merge, the über-corp should be run as follows:
- ‘Soldering’ Department: Sun's hardware featuring RISC-based chips should be fused onto the same motherboard as IBM's best stuff, creating a new dual-processor archicture that other companies will have trouble beating.
- ‘Staff Who Were At IBM’ Department: Market Java, using the same strategies used for the Cell chip (e.g. industry take-up first), not the OS/2 strategy.
- ‘Staff Who Were At Sun’ Department: NEVER market Java, finish the promised code, and stop trying to make Unix/Linux versions.
- Without Unix/Linux versions being made, this will make the name ‘Solaris’ available, so the new company can be called Solaris Microsystems, which is a far better name than either company has come up with before. IBM staff should realise that all three words of their company's name sound prehistoric.
- All staff must attend ‘Clear Documentation’ workshops, and should forget “words” like synergy and functionality, particularly in their technical manuals.
- All sales staff must learn that a large black box only sells if it has a monitor doing cool stuff attached. They must learn what software is and what it does.
- Once the merger/takeover/mess is over, I expect to see ‘Java 3 Proper Edition’ on my desktop.