Sun coughs eating its own dog food

I KNOW IT'S impolite to point, but today I can't help it. Just like I couldn't help but notice that Sun Microsystems websites were all down for a good period last week. The downtime crippled my afternoon programming session and was, in general, a real killjoy.

At first I thought Sun got hacked. Or perhaps it finally hired some web designers and was launching a massive and much needed site restructuring.

Nope. It tried to migrate from Netscape to iPlanet. Apparently the experiment was not entirely successful.

And this coming from the "100% uptime" company, the mighty toothsome Duke of Javaland. I commend Sun for trying to eat its own dogfood and achieve self-hosting. But it might want invest in one of those "rack wrapped" staging servers that McNealy frothed about last summer and walk through a couple of dress rehearsals before it tries this again. µ