It's not over. But if the rumors are correct, there are two movements in the board of directors. One led by Schwartz who believes Sun should sell and the other led by McNealy who doesn't. I'll side with McNealy for keeping Sun independent. Sun needs strong and visionary leadership to get out of this economic while. While Sun is not doing soo bad that they have to sell-out, it would appear some folks at the top are out of steam and looking for a quick parachute jump. I think that's just shortsighted and the folks of that camp should be dropped off the bus right now. Sun has a great product line-up and really needs to get the message out. I'm doing my part by helping companies consolidate and virtualize, which gets them onto new Sun hardware and Solaris 10.
Sun needs to do more to get the message out and help companies do upgrades. The biggest problem is not the lack of Sun products in the field, believe me there is a plethora of Sun gear out in the wild. The problem is that people don't upgrade because it "just works". This is both good and bad. Good in the sense that customers are happy with their old Sun gear, bad in the sense that they don't see the value in upgrading and thusly spending money. Remember, change is the greatest fear for businesses. Sun needs to address this problem above all else. Sun has the right products and pricing. It's the "how do I get from here to there?" problem that's plaguing sales. Instead of spending all that money on STK and MySQL, Sun should have bought something like EDS to have a strong PS and services division. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Zoltan Farkas <zolyfar...@yahoo.com> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 2:46:25 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so... So the latest rumor is that the rumored deal will not happen :-). The only clear thing, based on Intel CEOs statement, is that Sun looks for a potential buyer... This is not over yet... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
