Comments on Why does everything suck?: Sun In The Clouds. I Smell Fail

Maybe it's an exploratory launch. They'll see what...

2009-04-16T18:50:51.879-04:00

Maybe it's an exploratory launch. They'll see what kind of features people request, and then they'll incorporate them, etc.

LOL brutal, but spot on! BTW, where have you been...

2009-03-21T02:24:31.758-04:00

LOL brutal, but spot on! BTW, where have you been?

You might find this video interesting too:http://w...

2009-03-20T00:30:06.188-04:00

You might find this video interesting too:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/03/19/cloudy-sun-virtual-data-center-demo/

I'm with Hank on this one, at least as far as the ...

2009-03-19T21:31:45.890-04:00

I'm with Hank on this one, at least as far as the difficulty with understanding that web page goes. To castronovoruss's point, yes, there is a link on that page to the API docs, but note the text used for that link: "Open Communities." Hmmm... so while it's great that Sun wants to develop the APIs out in the open, this sort of labeling makes it harder to find things.

But the biggest disappointment on that page is the "Use the Cloud" link. I clicked it, hoping to get to, ya' know, actually *use* the cloud. Alas, it appears that is not available yet - there's just a form to sign up for the beta test. Bummer.

Oh yeah, and I don't get Twine either. I mean, not...

2009-03-18T17:36:28.343-04:00

Oh yeah, and I don't get Twine either. I mean, not even a little bit, it's a complete mystery to me why I should care about it.

As Second Life is to online gaming, so it seems* Twine is to the Semantic Web -- a vast quantity of journalistic noise generated about nothing much at all.

*(unless we're both dumb)

Just the fact that Java updates try to install Yah...

2009-03-18T17:30:36.645-04:00

Just the fact that Java updates try to install Yahoo Toolbar shows how far they have fallen.

Either someone at Sun is stupid, or someone at Sun hates their customers. I actually sent a note to their PR department asking them if they had any idea how badly that looks -- no reply, of course.

I started using Suns back in 1985, and was very pleased with them for years. Pity about them now....

Read: Vaporware."Oh yeah, we gotta do it too."

2009-03-18T17:22:16.474-04:00

Read: Vaporware.

"Oh yeah, we gotta do it too."

Great article. Also please check out my article o...

2009-03-18T14:53:40.195-04:00

Great article. Also please check out my article on how the market is pricing the IBM/Sun news: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/03/what-does-the-market-think/

Do a little reading next time:http://kenai.com/pro...

2009-03-18T14:50:40.247-04:00

Do a little reading next time:

http://kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis/pages/HelloCloud

Russ,Thanks for the link. Are you purposely hiding...

2009-03-18T12:11:37.749-04:00

Russ,

Thanks for the link. Are you purposely hiding this information by not linking to it from the sun promotional website or did I just entirely miss it? Is there some reason that it is being hosted under the kenai domain and not under sun's domain? Regardless, you guys have made it exceedingly hard to find this stuff. Very strange.

Sun's APIs can be reviewed and commented on at htt...

2009-03-18T12:03:23.770-04:00

Sun's APIs can be reviewed and commented on at http://kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis