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The January rumours were true and on Friday Oracle laid off the core talent from the Solaris and SPARC teams, in effect finally killing what they had left of Sun Microsystems. When Oracle aquired Sun, there were a lot of valuable assets, each of which, except VirtualBox, has been squandered and abandoned. Simon Phipps enumerates the main ones and what happened to them.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday September 06 2017, @02:08AM
You only saw 2 errors? It was a fantastic example of corporate speak, loaded with euphemisms and catch words and phrases across every aspect!
"drive innovation": Never been a mainstream automobile called the "Innovation". The Nova and the Edsel were real cars though. Oh, they didn't mean that kind of "drive"? Oh, right, they omitted "slave". Guess it's so obvious it doesn't have to be said.
"joining forces": Doesn't that imply an element of voluntary acquiescence? Next time I eat a steak, can I say "a cow joined forces with me"?
"technology marketplace": Yes, the Holy Market. Bow down before the Market! We know, we know, corporations think they have no other purpose than worshipping at the Marketplace altar.
"enterprise software": So Oracle is the company that Scotty visited when the Enterprise went back in time to save the whales!
"across the globe", "global leader": A bit redundant, wouldn't you say? Must be obsessed over global domination. Or they watched too much Pinky and The Brain.