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August 24, 2007
Sun Changes Stock Symbol From ‘SUNW’ to ‘JAVA’
Stupidest corporate PR move I've seen in a long time. Just plain silly. The comments on Schwartz's blog are good reading.Sun Changes Stock Symbol From ‘SUNW’ to ‘JAVA’: "
Apparently they couldn’t find a four-character symbol that stood for ‘shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic’. (SDCT?)
(Via Daring Fireball.)
Posted by andrej at August 24, 2007 11:06 PM
Comments
Fake Steve Jobs joins in with this post about even more big changes at SUN. FSJ calls Schwartz "My Little Pony."
Posted by: Ben C at August 25, 2007 4:30 AM
Or perhaps "SUNK" was taken? Like several of the posters, I associate java with being slow and needing frequent security updates.
Posted by: jim at August 25, 2007 4:55 AM
Maybe they'll change it to RUBY next year...
Posted by: Laurel at August 25, 2007 11:11 PM
The FSJ blog is hilarious. Another episode of MLP. - jim
Posted by: jim at September 11, 2007 10:21 PM