Title: FW: [PEN-L] New Business Model
I currently work for a large financial corporation, and most of the new sotware programs we currently use are owned, hosted, serviced, and maintained by the parent company and most interactions occur over the internet. We pay a yearly rental fee. I think
Hasn't IBM for some time been putting multi-page ads in the WSJ
proposing that data management be regarded as a fifth utility? I think
that started over a year ago. Sun's program as Joanna describes it would
seem to be the same sort of thing.
Carrol
So here's a snippet that caught my eye from the company-wide mailer from
the CEO of the company which employs me.
So there is a step-by-step process we are going to get through
-- using reference architectures, systems that connect to Sun
by default, managed services, customer-ready systems and
Don't falling equipment prices make Sun's project less likely. During the time
sharing phase of early computers, equipment is expensive.
What services could Sun provide that would be unique? Would they compete with
Oracle, EDS ???
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:31:43PM -0700, joanna bujes
I imagine they'd supply the kind of computer svcs needed by large
corporations or by governments -- svcs for which security,
fault-tolerance, reliability are key. Such things are
difficult/expensive to implement and their service would be that rather
than B of A hiring consultants/programmers to
