Erik Trimble said: > From my standpoint as a current Sun employee, my biggest problem with > Sun has been it's lack of focus. We've spent way to much time, effort, > and money doing a variety of neat things, all which /might/ be really > sweet. However, as a consequence, all of them tend to be late-to-market > or perpetually starved for resources to accomplish their stated goals.
You also forget to mention the problem that Sun has so many products that they don't sell because their salespeople do not even know what all the products are. Look at NetDynamics, which they let die partially because they didn't know how to market it correctly, and I remember that I was interested in buying Sun Secure Global desktop back in May 2008 along with some sun ray stuff but then I heard that they didn't work with OpenSolaris 2008.05, but then there's the xVM server which is supposed to compete with vmware ESX, so of course I REALLY wanted to buy that one, but then one minute xVM existed, and then the next minute it didn't exist anymore, and then the minute after that it was renamed (or bundled with?) Sun xVM Ops Center?!?! I've spent hours a day every day trying to follow Sun's software portfolio product line and still I'm totally confused.... so does xVM bare metal hypervisor server really exist, or is it now part of the xVM Ops Center or is it now something else? And then of course there's the cloud computing thing with VirtualBox and OpenOffice uploading to the cloud which Sun had that I was interested in, but seems that that one was vaporized somehow too.... Take not from history: successful products are things like IBM's CICS and IMS databases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Management_System where IBM sold these financial institutions the same IBM database running on the same IBM mainframe operating system with the same IBM COBOL compiler every year from 1960 to 2010 but just charged more money for it ever year.... so there's something to be said for having a product that is stable and consistent and 100% backwards compatible that keeps the same name and logo for 50+ years- which is almost an eternity in IT land. Changing the product road map, naming, and branding every four months just confuses potential customers. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
