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Sun is still confusing to meSun is still confusing to mePosted Jun 28, 2005 3:09 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)Parent article: McNealy on message (News.com)
I still find Sun a very confusing company. On one hand, they went out of their way to do open source with OOo, GNOME etc. and now OpenSolaris (well, there it's more the case of half-open source :-). Anyhow, it seems to me that although this open source wing of the company is pushing forward with reform, there is the old school wing that wants to keep Java (i.e. JDK) closed source. So, the executives of the company have to defend this decision with illogical arguments in the same breath they've been singing praise to open source. Just doesn't make sense...
At the same time, Sun are half-heartedly pushing out Opteron based systems which simply don't have the quality, engineering and the range of similar HP offerings. At the same time, these same Opterons are killing their low-end Sparc volume, making the architecture more of an endagered species every day (i.e. lower volume means higher production cost, which means customers will have to pay more). It's not like Sparc is going into XBox, PS3 and Nintendo, so they can afford it. While knowing all this, Sun are committed to push Sparc... To what end?
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