I am relieved to have been distracted the past week (Usain Bolt, people), but I am keeping my eyes open, and have a simple request to the few stragglers at Sun that glance at my blog either through a hidden bookmark, or on JavaWorld’s page:get Jonathan to read my blog…I know, self-aggrandizement and self-promotion are two qualities that do not go well together, but every Monday from here until the Q109 results come out, I am going to cringe looking at finance.google.com and searching for JAVA news and stock-price: I mean, when is the investment community going to give-up? apparently the Sun executive team and the compliant PR department don’t think as soon as most everyone else, as they allowed this press release to come out: https://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-08/sunflash.20080820.1.xmlNow, I know openStorage is going to feature more prominently in marketing, as indicated by PTB in the FY08 con. call, but it is just a new way of saying the same old crap about openSolaris, something that no one – – and I literally mean no one – – is paying attention to…I can’t even bring myself to analyze this release of old news, as it is all well-documented in my previous posts…Something I will talk about is server marketshare, as the most recent update from Gartner came out last week:https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/gartner_server_q2_2008/ No, actually, I am not going to do much justice, because i am just going to get emotional and inflammatory if I do go in to it, as readers of this blog will no doubt understand that my take on Jonathan’s and Lehman’s assessment of a struggling server marketplace is a flat-out lie, and categorically a mis-leading analysis…go ahead, read the article on El Reg, and justify to me the statements of the CEO and CFO that the economy, in general, and the server customer-base, more specifically, is contracting: not to Dell, IBM, and HP…what do those three have in common: secondary support for Solaris…what do the two shrinking vendors – – Sun and Fujitsu – – have in common: primary support for Solaris…So, of course that is not a statistically relevant comparison, but then again, give me another reason: x86 v. non-x86 emphasis? perhaps, but even that does not seem to be spelled out in HP and IBM’s relative strength…all I am asking is for someone to give me some data that dispels my basic argument over the summer: Solaris is killing Sun…. openStorage is fine, go 4 it, make some headway in the growing storage market, and make some efforts to justify the enormous investment that Sun has made in recent years, with nearly nothing to show for it, through open source noise, but don’t give me another d*mn openSolaris-influenced press release…enough is enough, you guys (Sun executive management) are holding nice jobs today, and your inability or, more accurately, your lack of will to check your totally out-of-control and myopic CEO is going to result in your unemployment soon…and all those other Sun employees that have been 10% RIF’ed-like scared in to making any protest to the dominance of Solaris even in the face of all market conditions, forces, and facts, i feel for ya, i have been there, and when i protested something, i lost about 90% of annual income, so i know there is nothing to do…these blog posts that i make are not intended to be deflating or de-motivating for the truly peerless talent that Sun has in middle management and in the development ranks, but rather, they are intended to be an outlet, for change, for rallying forces to get the CEO to move beyond his own head, and start making decisions that are reflected by factors that are defensible in the marketplace, and stop making excuses, like the pot of gold is just out of reach, and may be attainable in the ‘next’ quarter… openStorage is fine; openSolaris is even fine, but it is not the primary mission of Sun, it is a legacy after-thought, though you wouldn’t get that impression from the emphasis that has been placed on it, by this losing shoot-the-moon strategy to catch Red Hat…sooner, rather than later, that long-held and morally (i mean, business-wise) non-supportable 10% marketshare of the overall server market is going to evaporate, and instead of Sun commanding a leadership position, it will be gone, like poof, gone…someone needs to intervene, and i am just in a position to provide the context, the changes, the issues, the arguments, and something of a plan that will be needed to overcome the damage done…someone needs to intervene… Java