Does HP Know Anything About Solaris?
Three days ago, HP put out a press release. I think it’s trying to persuade me that running Sun’s Solaris x86 operating system on HP’s rather nice x86/x64-based hardware is a good idea; but really it’s pretty damned difficult to tell. For example, take this sentence:
HP’s robust UNIX operating system, HP-UX 11i, benefits Solaris customers challenged with highly demanding workloads.
What?! Run that by me again. No. I’m sorry. I simply can’t see how that makes any sense at all. And if HP can’t even write a press release about Solaris that makes sense, why should I believe they know what they’re doing when it comes to actually implementing Solaris-based systems?
For HP’s information, I stopped reading the press release when I got to that sentence. It made me think that HP isn’t really serious about Solaris.
Now I do appreciate the choice of vendors that support Solaris. But come on HP, if you’re going to support Solaris, at least try to convince me you know what you’re talking about…
Lally wrote:
Your discussion about HP being nonsensical would make more sense if your grammar had been a bit better:
‘And if HP can’t even write a press release at about Solaris that makes sense, …’
at about Solaris?
Posted 27 Aug 2007 at 7:38 pm ¶
simon wrote:
Thanks for pointing out the typo Lally.
Posted 28 Aug 2007 at 8:04 am ¶
Lally wrote:
Didn’t mean to come off as such a dick. There was supposed to be a smiley at the end of that. :-/
Posted 28 Aug 2007 at 1:50 pm ¶