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October 20, 2006 
A Tradition of Empty Boxes: Sun announces the Google shipping container data center, but will it fly?
[ andy bechtolsheim | blackbox | data centers | eric schmidt | google | project blackbox | ralph gorin | s.u.n. workstation | sun | sun microsystems ]January 4, 2006 
Sun's Woes Continue: Still no good news for Sun. Those Galaxy servers are very nice, but they aren't enough to support the company and Eric Schmidt is too smart (I hope) to bail out his old firm....
October 6, 2005
Meeting Over a Cup of Java: Some Thoughts on What's Behind This Week's Sun/Google Announcement, Plus a Promised AdWords Update
April 15, 2004
Shake Your Groove Thing: The Only Way to Beat Microsoft is by Ignoring Microsoft
April 8, 2004
The Once and Future King: Now the Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide
February 12, 2004
Crazy After All These Years: Does the Key to Microsoft’s Plan for Global Media Domination Involve Driving Judges Insane?
February 13, 2003
Sunset: How to Avoid the Almost Certain End of Sun Microsystems
January 2, 2003
More of the Same: Bob's Predictions for 2003
October 24, 2002
The Case Against Professionalism: How We Have Managed Industry Almost to Death
November 29, 2001
The Other Side of .NET: Why Microsoft Could Still Fail With .NET and How They'd Likely Recover From That Failure
November 8, 2001
Caught in a .NET: Don't Expect Microsoft to Give Up One Weapon Without Acquiring Another — How .NET Assures the Continuation of Monopoly
November 1, 2001
Sharper Than Ever: Microsoft's C# Language Might Be the Death of Java, but Sun's the One to Blame
August 16, 2001
Making Lemonade: How Microsoft Is Using Its Own Legal Defeat to Hurt Java
June 7, 2001
The ABBA Effect: Java May Be the Future of Mobile Communications, But That Future May Be Later Than Expected
April 19, 2001
Data, Know Thyself Part 2: Four Reasons Why XML Will Probably Not Meet Our Expectations
February 17, 2000
The Plot Thickens: Why is Everybody Talking About Distributed Denial of Service but Nobody is Saying Anything?
September 9, 1999
Terminal Condition: Why Sun's Aggressive New Workstations Are ReallyJust a Blast From the Past
September 2, 1999
Tactics Versus Strategy: Why Microsoft and Intel Both Lost GroundThis Week to the Open Source Movement
January 28, 1999
Make Three Wishes and Call Me in the Morning: The Hidden Flaw in Sun's Jini Plan
December 3, 1998
Check and Mate?: How Microsoft Just Might Beat the DOJ After All
July 30, 1998
Cynicism attack!: Why the Electronic Frontier Foundation has to claim cryptography is dead in order to save cryptography
March 27, 1998
It's good enough for PC work: The heritage of unprofessionalism in the PC industry and why it is generally good
February 13, 1998
I'm a Seoul man: Bob takes on the prospect that Netscape is really for sale
October 27, 1997
Sure, Microsoft is guilty (there, I said it!), but that's not the problem: The software industry is sick
October 6, 1997
What's in a name?: Nothing if the name is ActiveX or Java.