intertwingly

A year or two later, and it could have been ROCK. ;)

Todays news that Sun’s stock ticker will change from SUNW to JAVA was met with pretty mixed reactions. Here are the posts that I’ve seen so far in my feed reader so far. I’m sure what I think of the change. The ticker SUNW was out of date because...

I know that others have commented on this far more eloquently that I can but the entire post and the change just seems bizarre to me. I’ve been trying all day to think of a good analogy to describe just how bizarre it seems but I just can’t seem to...

Re Sun changing their ticker from SUNW to JAVA , Sam Ruby’s blog had a subtle dig at Sun, crossing out the “C” in “JCP”, hinting that by [ab]using the Java trademark in this way, Sun was removing the Community from the ecosystem. Now, while I agree...

I see that you made the Java mascot a link to Sun.com. It appears that you can only click on the lines (including the actual links in the chain) and not any of the whitespace. I wonder if you could define a solid fill inside the lines of the svg object to make the whole mascot clickable. As it is it isn’t as noticeable.

A post as subtle as the rebrand.

Via Sam Ruby, how Jonathan Schwartz announces that Sun will change the symbol for stock trading from the traditional Sunw to JAVA. I’m not sure if it makes sense at all, for a technological company CEO, to spend time speaking about such...

I could not believe it when I read Jonathan Schwartz’s (Sun CEO and President) recent post about changing the trade name for Sun Microsystems from SUNW to JAVA. I hear that most of the comments are hostile to this. Some of them loose even time...