Monthly Archives: August 2007

Links for Tue 21 Aug 2007 through Tue 28 Aug 2007

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Dell Doesn't Know What Time It Is

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So I’ve got a Dell system coming to my house. They called me this morning to let me know that it was ready and would probably be arriving in the next week or so and wanted to verify the shipping address. Fair enough, but did they really need to do that at 6:30am? Sarah was none too thrilled to be woken up by the phone at that hour, and was really not impressed that it was Dell. A family emergency is one thing, but confirming a shipping address? That can wait until later in the morning.

From SUNW to JAVA

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Today Jonathan Schwartz announced Sun is changing their stock symbol from SUNW to JAVA:

JAVA is a technology whose value is near infinite to the internet, and a brand that’s inseparably a part of Sun (and our profitability). And so next week, we’re going to embrace that reality by changing our trading symbol, from SUNW to JAVA.

This seems really odd. One of the reasons given for doing this was to introduce “Sun to new investors, developers and consumers”. Any investor interested in a “Java” technology company that doesn’t know what Sun’s role in Java is shouldn’t be investing in them now just because their ticker symbol changed. Any developer who doesn’t know what Sun’s role in Java is needs to do some more reading. And any consumer that knows anything at all about Java equates it with slow software that brings their system to its knees when it starts up.

On the one hand he is the “Chief Executive Officer and President” of Sun, so hopefully he and others have really thought this through before they go and spend millions of dollars re-branding. Then again, who knows.

If they really wanted to go with a new ticker symbol that would resonate with the tech geek crowd they should have picked ZFS instead.

CTO Breakfast and Utah PHP Users Group This Week

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As part of my on going efforts to check out the tech scene here in Utah I’m planning to attend the CTO Breakfast (which isn’t limited to CTOs I’m told) and the Utah PHP Users Group this week. Both events are this Thursday, August 23rd.

The CTO Breakfast is at the Novell campus down in Provo. A little bit of a drive from Sandy, but a couple of people recommended it as a good opportunity to talk tech with others. This run by Phil Windley and starts at 8am.

Making up for the longer drive to Provo is the Utah PHP Users Group which meets Thursday night at 7pm in Draper, just a few miles south-west of my home. The topic is Search Engine Optimization and PHP, presented by Sherrie Bigelow.

If you end up at either or both of these events be sure to say hi. I should have a few WordPress stickers on hand.

Links for Thu 16 Aug 2007

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