I knew something was cooking, when IBM announcement was made SUN’s stock jumped like a rocket, then when deal was off, at least from talk perspective stock did retreat, but please don’t tell me people did not know somehow that something else is cooking, how come stock did not go down to previous levels or lower as it usually does after such situation? Well inside traders knew something that others (such as myself) had no idea, I could only speculate something was out in the air as stock only did drop to over $6. So now another announcement is made and look at this. Stock went back to over $9. Interesting, I hate those inside traders, those people who makes millions or even billions by just having access to the right information that others don’t.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 20, 2009 — Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt.

www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp

This certainly could be quite interesting in development and see how will it play. Maybe Oracle can keep most of SUN’s items as comparing to IBM it was obvious that there would be to much in common and redundant and they would not carry forward with all technologies. Wonder what will happen to MySQL since Oracle has its own DB, maybe they will keep it? I certainly hope so as I really do enjoy mysql myself, its easy and small, and I certainly hope Oracle will not destroy it by packing to much crap on top of it as they did it to Oracle (Remember Oracle when it was like 8 or even 9i? How small it was and how fast it was? Look at it now at 10g and 11, how massive, how much disk space and memory it does require to just run it or start it. At my current job when we do not have enough swap space allocated to global zone we cannot even start some Oracle instances because on a start it does require swap space… why? swap should not even be used. Anyway so I hope Oracle will not just destroy it… But its exciting news I think…

Massive Sun cuts planned as IBM focuses on software trio

IBM staffers have, according to a Reg source close to the parties, been talking to Sun about its software portfolio and – unsurprisingly – they don’t like what they’ve found: It’s not making any money.

IBM’s now interested in three Sun software assets: the open-source MySQL database, Java, and Sun’s Solaris operating system.

The rest, including all that open-source work Sun’s spent years building and hyping, will succumb to that classic of big vendor lingering deaths by being, ahem, “released” to the “community”.

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www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/technology/business-computing/06blue.html

I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems

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Well, for me its quite simple, I do not do much with ILOM, I can change IP, which I did have in previous blog how to accomplish this task, rest is just simple, I can reset my server via ilom, or I can display console on my screen via either serial or network or even web interface. Web is easy and self explanatory, but when you do it from crappy ILOM this is what I usually do

to get on a console type:
start /SP/console
then it will answer y for yes.

if you want to reset your server type this:
cd /SYS
reset

if you want more help you can always use help command, if you want to see whats available type ls and it will display you menu

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Configuring ILOM IP address on Sun Server such as X4450 is quite annoying but simple. How the hell SUN came up with this crap such as ILOM is beyond me, but anyway that’s what it is and that’s what we have to deal with, but here is what I need to do to setup this IP address:

1) Establish serial or ssh connection to ILOM
   – serial, just connect serial to your server and you don’t have to anything, remember default credentials are login: root and pw: changeme
   – if you have network connectivity to your ILOM default is to chose DHCP IP address, so best, login to your DHCP server to determine the ip and then connect via: ssh -l root 192.168.1.150 (your DHCP IP address), I had issues connecting from solaris 8 to ILOM where I had to disable compression: ssh -o “Compression no” root@192.168.1.150
   NOTE: remember, default password for root is changeme

2) cd to /SP/network directory
   cd /SP/network

3) now configuration part:
   set pendingipaddress=192.168.1.10
   set pendingipnetmask=255.255.255.0
   set pendingipgateway=192.168.1.1
   set commitpending=true

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I believe its just all rumors to pump up the stock of Sun, it just does not make any sense for IBM to buy SUN. The only thing that I can see IBM benefiting from would be java portion, other than that they have it all. Chips? Well they have their own PowerPC. Unix? well they have their own AIX and Linux. Professional Services? They certainly much better on that. DB? Well IBM had DB2, why do they need mysql for? If they wanted to buy SUN why not doing it last year when Sun was at its lowest? If they wanted to get mysql they could have done that way before sun did. So why? Well whoever did play SUN stocks certainly made a killing yesterday.

According to Sun,  Sun StorageTek 2540 Array is affordable and it is ideal for primary workgroup and enterprise-class tier 2 storage. The array delivers reliable RAID functionality and the highest availability in its class. The flexible, high-density array is easy to deploy with Fiber Channel and optimized for rack-intensive environments. You can find more information at Sun’s website:
www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/workgroup/2540/

Well my experience is not that bright to be honest with you. I am quite disappointed with this array. We got 4 of those devices.  I did notice with Sun hardware (this array and x86 servers) that it’s difficult to set it up initially for various reasons but when you get it running and will past this configuration disaster then its quite solid product.

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