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March 22, 2006
Sun's Communications Suite
Let's talk about Sun's communications suite. The server applications run... all the time. They never go down they never have issues. What does go down, and what does have issues ( all too often ) is Communications Express. It certainly is a nice program when it works.... WHEN IT WORKS. After having a meeting with the brain trust from Sun today it would appear we are not the only ones dealing with this crap.
What was Sun's response to my rants about their lack of support for palm/blackberry sync, and comms express. "Its Sun's issue that we need to resolve" And my question to that was "Soooooo what's the status?"
This is where the folks became less than open with their answers about a resolution. I sure would like it if Google would buy Sun, and develop GMAIL around Sun's messaging server and then add a calendar portion to it, and integrate that. Sun sucks for client development!!
Posted by knabet at March 22, 2006 02:34 PM
Comments
From my observations, Sun seems to "do their homework" when it comes to comparing their products to others on the market. They engage in competitive pricing and offer good value for the dollar. What they don't seem to grasp (yet) is TCO. Total cost of ownership is an old-hat concept for a defender-of-the-Mac like me. Macs typically cost more than their PC couterparts. However, less is required to make them run and keep them running. This is especially true on the software side (anyone who's heard me rant about the G5's dying will know I'm not speaking of hardware here).
Sun has leveraged their position in the industry to make their hardware/software attractive to CIOs. The epiphany they need to have is the notion that if their products are not palatable to the end user, these same IT decision makers will not, politically, be able to stay with Sun.
Posted by: Joe Crowe at March 23, 2006 02:57 AM