On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 15:50 -0700, Bryan Sant wrote: > I don't care if Sun figures it out or not. Once the code is GPL they > can make a bazillion dollars or go out of business. It doesn't effect > GPL java users. However, Sun isn't going anywere. Novell, HP, and > others would go out of business before Sun.
That's funny. No I'm afraid you're wrong. HP is definitely going to outlive Novell and Sun. In fact they recently regained the number one spot from Dell for selling PCs. But yes, Novell's days are numbered. Sun is dying, no doubt about it. It's not a matter of if Sun is going to die, but rather run. The commoditization of cheap PC hardware sealed Sun's fate a long time ago. Java is just something of a red herring or anomaly. A piece of popular software that came out of a hardware company. Sun's still, despite their AMD servers, a big iron unix vendor. They are screwed either way now. If they go with Linux or Microsoft for their OS, then they are just another clone maker. If they continue with Solaris (which is a good OS), they will probably last a bit longer but will still suffer as proprietary unix breaths its last sigh. Interesting that Solaris 10 has as a feature Linux binary compatibility. Now really I believe Sun will pull through, but it won't your grandfather's sun that comes out the other end. Don't underestimate Microsoft's clout with .NET either. Java is now competing with them, despite you're assurance that it is the other way around. > > -Bryan > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
