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Anticipating the sunsetAnticipating the sunsetPosted Jul 24, 2008 15:55 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)Parent article: Anticipating the sunset
Wow, the comments in that link are interesting: http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2008/07/09/sun-m... There are a lot of comments by Sun employees, and a lot of comments by investors or potential investors. Many of the latter are strongly critical of the open source strategy (which they generally refer to as the "giving things away strategy" or the "free strategy"). Oh yes, this is going to be interesting...
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Anticipating the sunset Posted Jul 24, 2008 19:28 UTC (Thu) by ddaa (guest, #5338) [Link] It would be nice if you could give some pointers (strings to search for) to interesting comments from potential investors. I read a few dozens comments from employees and got tired tired of it. Almost all of them are basically just saying 1. "pony tail" (Jon Schwartz) must leave 2. the board is inept 3. the whole management chain is rotten 4. this company is going belly up so fast it's going to get a speeding fine. I find it tiresome to read this much concentrated anger and bitterness.
Anticipating the sunset Posted Jul 24, 2008 19:39 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] I saw a lot of that from employees and ex-employees, too. Also I noticed that many of them praised their fellow "front-line" employees (by which I take it that they mostly mean engineers) for being good and hard-working. Anyway, here are some search strings for comments from the business/investment crowd: "free" (Only a few of the comments that contain the string "free" are not about Sun's Open Source/Free Software strategy, and only a few of the comments that are about that strategy are not from investor types excoriating that strategy.) "open source" :-)
Anticipating the sunset Posted Jul 25, 2008 9:31 UTC (Fri) by pcampe (guest, #28223) [Link] I have read a sample of the comments on the blog, it seems to me that a small percentage focuses on open source profitability, and 80% or more are on bad management procedures, lot of internal bureacracy, CEO micro-managing (including 75 emails to discuss the best mug to celebrate the MySQL deal) yes-man culture, not focusing on some technology but doing almost anything, too many employees, and so on. Maybe these two different aspects are deeply connected: to be profitable with open source, your business and development procedures must be of stellar quality (and, au contraire, to be profitable with closed source could give you 1-2 years advantage over competitors). I agree with you, it will be interesting to see if they throw out the baby (open source) with the bath water (bad management).
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