[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] Dear Scott: - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
Thu, Aug 7 2008 18:51 bradley

Dear Scott:

It has been pointed out to me that in my zeal of ranting.. I picked the wrong CEO to rant at.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/08/07/dear-larry.aspx

Let's try that rant again.

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/executives/mcnealy/bio.jsp

Dear Scott:

Can you say my apologies for first ranting at your counterpart, Larry at Oracle but I'm sure he deserves a rant about security for something (Database-y I'm sure).

So Scott dearest, sweetie. Again, sorry to get you and Larry confused, after all he's the intense guy with the turtleneck sweaters and that's not your look at all, but I'm still mad at you for not putting an easy way to get all of those Sun Java thingys off my computers. 

And hey, lemme yell at another executive at Sun since I'm in the mood tonight .. Jonathan  http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/executives/schwartz/index.jsp

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/rocking_the_free_world

It's wonderful that you want Java to be the foundation of all the web 2.0 apps and all that but part of the responsibility of taking the Internet to the next Web 3.0 level is cleaning up after yourself when you've made a mess.

I mean even you have to admit ...THAT is ridiculous.  I think that both of you would probably agree that you had Mothers that taught you to clean up after yourselves a bit.  So then how about teaching your software engineers to do likewise.

You are making us insecure.  Forcing us to build our own scripts and tools to get the old ones off the system. 

Bottom line gentlemen if you really want to take us to the WEB 3.0 level, be responsible.  Make your software act like an adult and clean up it's mess.

Hugs to you guys too. 

Susan

P.S. I'm sure you have a nice looking building as well in Santa Clara, I just don't remember what it looks like.

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# re: Dear Scott:

Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:08 PM by Snoozle

You still mixed them up; Jonathan is the current CEO, Scott is the chairman and former CEO.

# re: Dear Scott:

Friday, August 08, 2008 10:32 AM by JP

Sun is already addressing this issue. The latest version of Java (6 update 10) has been changed to do future updates in place.

Quote from Sun's web site: jdk6.dev.java.net/6u10ea.html

For current users of Java SE, the JRE update mechanism has also been improved, using a patch-in-place mechanism that translates in a faster and more reliable update process (the patch in place mechanism will take effect for end users who upgrade from this update release or later to a new update release). As an added benefit, follow-on update releases will no longer be listed as separate items in the Windows "Add or Remove Programs" dialog.