Sun CEO Schwartz Tweeted His Resignation With $12 Million
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz is the first CEO that tweeted his resignation with a 140-character haiku:
Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more.
He walks out with $12 million and it is reported that take over giant Oracle CEO dislike him.
NASA’s Ibex To Study Boundaries Of Solar System
NASA gas launched space probe Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) to study the violence and turbulence at the very edge of the solar system.
IBEX will orbit high above the Earth to take pictures of the interstellar boundaries for the first time. These boundaries separate our heliosphere from the local interstellar medium of our Galaxy. The region is a vast expanse of turbulent gas and twisting magnetic fields. This mission of taking pictures and recording those interstellar boundaries will take two years.
David McComas, IBEX said, “The interstellar boundary regions are critical because they shield us from the vast majority of dangerous galactic cosmic rays, which otherwise would penetrate into Earth’s orbit and make human spaceflight much more dangerous”.
Source: NASA launches probe to study edge of solar system
Sun Open Source Solaris
Sun Microsystems will launch a supported version of OpenSolaris operating system at the CommunityOne conference in San Francisco. OpenSolaris is based on the Solaris kernel and uses many of its features like the Zettabyte File System (ZFS) and Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), which offers predictive self-healing capabilities. Sun wants to compete with Linux and aiming this open source software at web developers.
Source: OpenSolaris Ready for Prime Time
Sun mySQL Deal Stinks
Sun has bought open-source software maker MySQL of Sweden for $1 Billion. So what is Sun going to do with this purchase.
John Dvorak from MarketWatch said that Sun Microsystems gobbling up MySQL is perhaps the worst single event he has ever witnessed in the history of tech mergers and acquisitions. His reasons lies in Sun having a bad track record with its acquisitions.
John go on further linking Oracle, strategic partner of Sun, paying the billion to kill off mySQL.
A likely story?
Source: The Sun-MySQL deal stinks
