How often do you get to see this?

Check http://www.sun.com

that is pretty cool

There is an Indian piper in front of the picture and nowhere they have mentioned Nepal.
So I guess they wanted to show it as India.

the piper looks like he is from the terai region of NEPAL. that would make him a bona fide nepali.

i was trying to figure out the connection between the message and the picture. the message seems to say "hey system engineer, if you use our solution you will have so much free time that you can go to nepal and play the flute, or watch someone play the flute."
seems a bit lame.

methinks the sun is setting on sun microsystems. now that computing is cheap, one can easily replace their sun servers with dell servers at a fraction of the cost. you know that sun is in trouble when they start unrolling their linux strategy....too bad for solaris users....methinks sun will go the way of silicon graphics...too much engineering brainpower, but no real long term business viability.

* rolling out *

Agree with Zalim Singh - that guy could be as Nepali as anyone else and to question his nationality is silly (and frankly racist - sorry I see it no other way)

But, Zalim, the sun may not have fully set on Sun - yes there is a possibility that they will fade into oblivion no matter how good a product they have given competion from Lintel. But there is also a possibility that Sun will rise from the ashes ala Apple. Sun today dominates the high-end of the server market - wintel and lintel really give it competition in the mid and low ends. Sun has become aware of this and is competitivley pricing its mid and low range servers. Their website has some great server stuff priced like PCs! At my last company we went Lintel from Sparc/Solaris - it saved us 50,000 a year in support and maintainance contracts but made life miserable for people supporting the systems because Lintel is still not Enterprise ready from a reliability standpoint. Redhat support is horrible and if I had to do it all over again I would stick with a fire E2900 or 4900 instead of HP DLs or Dell servers. At least for ERP systems and large databases.

Just my thoughts - its been a boring Memorial day weekend :)

rolling out?? zalim???? me tooo p-p-p-puhleeeeze

Bhole babaji, Indian Piper? ehe, नेपाल नघुम्या जस्तो नगरुम न bro. eh... It's like some Indian friends of mine saying I don't look like Nepali because I don't have features like my Tibetian friends. eh... Ignorance, Ignorance.

Where is it anyway? Ktm Durbar Sq., Bhaktapur or Patan? It looks so clean and beautiful. eh. Sun system leaves time for more PEACEFUL pursuits... there you go, the connection... Peace, ehe, Incarnation of Krishna playin' flute in front of nice and clean durbar square...eh. What could be more peaceful than that...

Photo ni tasdinchu. eh.

"Indian Piper? ehe, नेपाल नघुम्या जस्तो नगरुम न bro. eh... It's like some Indian friends of mine saying I don't look like Nepali because I don't have features like my Tibetian friends. eh... Ignorance, Ignorance. "

What the hell is wrong with you stupid guys. That comment was not meant to vilify Indians
I just wanted to say that most big tech companies have Indian offices ( and lots of Indian work forse) these days so they want to show their connection with that in their advertisements and corporate web sites.

And if you have even talked to some people selling bansuri in Kathmandu, they are mostly from India and nothing against India or Indians.

La la la Bhole baba, eh...

कस्तो झनक्क झन्कया यार ... Real Bhole baba ko ni bau raicha jhankina ma ... मेरो हुनेवाला बुढी नि त्यत्ति झन्किन्न होलि ...

eh.. chillax yaar. खेदो खन्ला नि फेरि ... ehhe.

"Indian Piper? ehe, नेपाल नघुम्या जस्तो नगरुम न bro. eh... It's like some Indian friends of mine saying I don't look like Nepali because I don't have features like my Tibetian friends. eh... Ignorance, Ignorance. "
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well that happened to me too. When I was in India... my friend INSISTED that I was an Indian who was settled in Nepal. No matter what I said they din seem to be convinced. Malai yo comment padera kyaa aafno yaad ayo.. hehe

orion, you are correct that sun still dominates the *diminishing* hi-end server market. but that will surely change. when i was a freshman in college, our computing labs were filled with these ultra sparc machines that cost 40K a pop. these days, ultra sparcs are a lot cheaper. the thing is that simple risc processors from intel can do things that only ultra sparcs and ibm mainframes could do 5-10 yrs ago. and now you can rack these cheap linux boxes in parallel ( kinda like oracle's grid computing) to produce a reliable and powerful machine. i guess you guys are the guinea pigs, but i thought that there already is a lot of support for linux from the big guys such as ibm, oracle, hp, emc and intel. no worries, though. dell and hp are catching up pretty fast on the high end servers and sun realizes it all too well.
just look at sun's stock price. it's currently trading at below $4, while during it's peak, it was trading above $80. 6 yrs ago, sun looked invincible. today, things are a lot different. btw, are you using db2 or oracle? just curious.

hushpup?? didja go to the beach???