Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Jonathan Schwartz tears it
Jonathan Schwartz cracks me up. Read this post on his blog that he calls an "Open Letter to Sam Palmisano". A lot of the content is misleading but the end is the best part. Jonathan paraphrases Ronald Reagan's famous Brandenburg Gate speech:
Note: Just in case you're curious, here's what I found misleading about the rest of his post — Jonathan repeatedly blurs the distinction between Solaris 10 the operating system and Solaris 10 running on x86 hardware. Not the same thing. And he minimizes the costs of testing and certification of complex enterprise software — it's just a "simple recompile". Right, and you're Ronald Reagan.
We stand at the ready to help you tear down this wallSo Sam Palmisano is Mikhail Gorbachev and IBM is the Soviet Union? I'm sure Jonathan thought he was being clever but this is just too much.
Note: Just in case you're curious, here's what I found misleading about the rest of his post — Jonathan repeatedly blurs the distinction between Solaris 10 the operating system and Solaris 10 running on x86 hardware. Not the same thing. And he minimizes the costs of testing and certification of complex enterprise software — it's just a "simple recompile". Right, and you're Ronald Reagan.
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