Sing a Dirge for the Sun as it Sets one Final Time [LWN.net]

Sing a Dirge for the Sun as it Sets one Final Time

Posted Oct 7, 2004 20:17 UTC (Thu) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256)
Parent article: McNealy: Microsoft needs Sun to beat IBM and Red Hat (Register)

Getting in bed with Microsoft this way can only be an act of desperation and
can only mean that Sun is in big trouble.

Can anyone name any Microsoft partner who as flourished in the long run?

Can anyone see synergy in this relationship?

Can anyone see any reason for Microsoft to have any desire to leave a niche for Sun when they'd desparately prefer to have their OS front and center in the data center. Microsoft would like to make some descendent of MS Windows 2003 a replacement for all UNIX and MVS, they've said so many times in the past. They can't possibly port Windows to SPARC (they've shown an incredible lack of portability in the past with MIPS and Alpha).

So this is a temporary alliance at best. A spasmodic reactionary reflex at worst. I don't see how any (prospective) customer could see any value added by a Sun/Microsoft partnership.

Ugh!

JimD

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Sing a Dirge for the Sun as it Sets one Final Time

Posted Oct 7, 2004 20:44 UTC (Thu) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link]

I agree. This is the move of a desperate man. I used to think McNealy was a fairly bright guy. He's a bit young to be going senile so either I was wrong or he's been bought off by Microsoft. Neither possibility leaves me feeling very impressed with the guy.

This does make me nervous about the future of OpenOffice.

Sing a Dirge for the Sun as it Sets one Final Time

Posted Oct 8, 2004 10:06 UTC (Fri) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link]

well all we gotta do is hope the pact winds up killing them both stone dead and as for suns decission to pay Kodac $92 million well what thew heck was all that about screw Kodac in fact screw the whole darn lot of them M$ Corp Sun Sco Kodac corrupt leagal systems that work for the one with the fattest wallet /biggest cheque book Ploititions that are nothing but mouth ie Bush Blair what a twat .

In fact stuff it give ma a rocket i wanna got start a colony on mars out the flamin way .

Pete .