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I wonder what will happen to the Sun Startup Essentials scheme. It's not exactly compatible with the Oracle view of the world.

• nailer 18y ago
  First time I met anyone from SSE they tried to sell me SPARC hardware. For me it seems very much compatible with the Oracle view of the world.
  • bensummers 18y ago
    We're on the scheme, and use Sun x86. Maybe it's different here in the UK, but it's been wonderfully pressure-free on the sales side and they've put an awful lot of effort into helping startups in ways other than selling cheap kit. Obviously it's all out of self-interest, but it seems to me to be very much enlightened self-interest. Which isn't how you'd describe Oracle.
    • nailer 18y ago
      Odd, I'm UK (London) based too. I encountered their salesy SSE people at FOWA London. Politely had to explain that I has no need for 256 concurrent threads on a single machine in any of my web apps at the present time.
      • bensummers 18y ago
        Predictable, I suppose. Sun's sales and marketing people take yet another good thing and fail to sell it.