{"id":589,"date":"2010-01-21T21:26:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T02:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/?p=589"},"modified":"2010-01-21T21:27:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T02:27:21","slug":"at-the-setting-of-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/at-the-setting-of-the-sun.html","title":{"rendered":"At the Setting of the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-592\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sunset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-592\" title=\"Ssunset\" src=\"https:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sunset.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sunset-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset at First Encounter Beach, Eastham, Massachusetts (photo by Rob Weir)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- LEFT MARGIN END --> <!--startindex--> <!-- ============ --> <!-- MAIN CONTENT --> <!-- ============ --><\/p>\n<p>As my readers have no doubt heard by now, today the <a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP\/10\/40\">EC<\/a> cleared Oracle&#8217;s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems.\u00a0 This will undoubtedly have a significant impact on all Sun employees,\u00a0 many of whom I have  worked with toward common purposes, on standards or open source projects, and whom I am proud to call my colleagues.\u00a0 I wish them all best of luck.<\/p>\n<p>I know a little of what they will be going through in the weeks and months ahead, having worked for Lotus Development Corporation when IBM acquired it in 1995.\u00a0 So here is my unsolicited advice.\u00a0 Some day they will come.\u00a0 It may be in weeks, maybe months from now, maybe early in the morning, maybe after hours or on the weekend.\u00a0 But that day will come.\u00a0 They will come and strip the Sun logo from the wall in the lobby and replace it with the Oracle logo. Watch for that day, that narrow window of opportunity.\u00a0 Save the logo.\u00a0 It is your trophy, your icon, your totem.\u00a0 You will always be Sun.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let them take it away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my readers have no doubt heard by now, today the EC cleared Oracle&#8217;s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems.\u00a0 This will undoubtedly have a significant impact on all Sun employees,\u00a0 many of whom I have worked with toward common purposes, on standards or open source projects, and whom I am proud to call my colleagues.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[183,182],"class_list":{"0":"post-589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-openoffice","7":"tag-oracle","8":"tag-sun","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}