sun to cut 5,000 jobs.
shouldn't be a surprise...
i do systems work. i have forever. what's
systems work? getting hardware to do things. opportunities have
gotten slimmer since the dot-com downturn.
but its not just the dot-com stuff that's hurting sun. sun made
lots of its own hardware. i mean down to the processors. the
commodity marketplace was slowly creeeping up the performance
chain, and x86 machines were getting used by the "smart people"
cause they were less expensive, and provided a richer set of
features. i know cause i helped that happen. i worked on
some freely-available OS's, and added features to 'em.
now we'll soon see quad core chips (where we now see dual core
chips), -- that means there's TWO cpu's on each "processor slot".
and 16-way systems won't bee too unusual.
i decided to work here to keep the slippery slope from damanging
my job choices in the future... at least in that was a major of the reason... i had been screwed by the U when they couldn't find
funding for one of the projects i was working on and cut salary
in half. since they were willing to do that, i figured they'd
do it again...
sigh.. unique archictecture machines are slowly dying out...
hp (PA-RISC) is out, sun (SPARC) is slowly going out.
sun was the among the last ones. in fact, i can't think
of any new ones in the last years... and here, withing earshot
of stanford... remember what sun stands for?
Stanford University Network...
i do systems work. i have forever. what's
systems work? getting hardware to do things. opportunities have
gotten slimmer since the dot-com downturn.
but its not just the dot-com stuff that's hurting sun. sun made
lots of its own hardware. i mean down to the processors. the
commodity marketplace was slowly creeeping up the performance
chain, and x86 machines were getting used by the "smart people"
cause they were less expensive, and provided a richer set of
features. i know cause i helped that happen. i worked on
some freely-available OS's, and added features to 'em.
now we'll soon see quad core chips (where we now see dual core
chips), -- that means there's TWO cpu's on each "processor slot".
and 16-way systems won't bee too unusual.
i decided to work here to keep the slippery slope from damanging
my job choices in the future... at least in that was a major of the reason... i had been screwed by the U when they couldn't find
funding for one of the projects i was working on and cut salary
in half. since they were willing to do that, i figured they'd
do it again...
sigh.. unique archictecture machines are slowly dying out...
hp (PA-RISC) is out, sun (SPARC) is slowly going out.
sun was the among the last ones. in fact, i can't think
of any new ones in the last years... and here, withing earshot
of stanford... remember what sun stands for?
Stanford University Network...