Blade Watch

http://docmurdock.blogspot.com/2007/11/open-letter-to-mark-hurd-ceo-of-hp.html 

It’s a time of year to be thankful and personally I am thankful for many things. It’s always nice to see companies playing together to make the stream flow easier. Recently a company where I spent time during the .com BOOM forged a new relationship with an old rival. SUN was that company.

During my time at SUN I noticed the company played very well in a place known as the datacenter. Clients out there use both SUN AND HP as the workhorse servers/computer systems in their datacenters. Clients are always saying it would be great to run Solaris on everything. It’s heard around the world. You may not hear it because others fear bringing it to you. I don’t. Mark, IT people find it easier to support Solaris in the Datacenter than they do HP-UX. It’s a fact. I have heard companies (major ones, some even provide plastic cards in your wallet), say that they love Solaris and wish everything that they owned ran it.

A lot of us out there in technology land have said for years that it would be really great to see SUN and HP or HP and SUN play together on the same hardware. HP providing really great hardware and SUN providing the great software in the form of SOLARIS. IT costs could be cut, downtime could be shortened, and managers would be much happier with the increased availability of their servers. Company revenues would increase, corporate spending would go up and both HP and SUN could benefit. Support staff are both really familiar with Solaris so the training of your staff to support the OS would not take long and it would really make things easier for all involved.

Interesting comments, do check it out. The recent news that Dell and Sun would collaborate on several things including support for Solaris on Dell x86 brought more opportunities for clients using the Solaris platform and more options for the consumer. The more platform and operating system combinations there are, the more we can find a solution that works for our business and our IT. Adding support for different platforms might open your business to markets that might previously have seen barriers to entry, real or perceived.

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