Ask Joyent: How do you feel about Oracle owning your toys?
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Um I'm phasing out a ton of sun gear too.
They run opensolaris, but they have A very customized version. They are all Dell baby, and as far as I know oracle doesn't have much relationship to them.
They run opensolaris, but they have A very customized version. They are all Dell baby, and as far as I know oracle doesn't have much relationship to them.
Joyent uses Dell, because Sun hardware turned to crap in the past 5 years, as confirmed to me personally by Ben Rockwood.
If memory serves, Joyent has been more of a Dell shop than a Sun shop for a couple years now.
Oh and Ben is right. ;)
How bad?
What I've heard is:
A) No one liked the change from 4 Intel Ethernet ports to 2 Intel and 2 Nvidia chipset ones.
B) Joyent's last straw was that Sun kept changing the management interface on them.
As of a few years ago Ben Rockwood was saying Dell's build quality was awful; did Sun's deteriorate as well? Dell's get better or perhaps became perceived to be good enough?
What I've heard is:
A) No one liked the change from 4 Intel Ethernet ports to 2 Intel and 2 Nvidia chipset ones.
B) Joyent's last straw was that Sun kept changing the management interface on them.
As of a few years ago Ben Rockwood was saying Dell's build quality was awful; did Sun's deteriorate as well? Dell's get better or perhaps became perceived to be good enough?
With all the Oracle v. Sun stuff going around (latest, http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/en_US/entry/and_now_page_2), I would like to know where this leaves Joyent. How has your relationship with Oracle/Sun changed since the takeover?
Any other predominantly Sun shops like to comment as well? Perhaps anonymously?