Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 3rd Dec 2002 01:59 UTC
Recently, a few independent departments (Solaris, java, Netscape and other middleware) at Sun Microsystems got integrated into one, the Platform/Software Group. We had a quick chat with Mr John Fowler, Sun Software's CTO about Solaris 10, Java, the competition and more.
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It seems like they have a clear vision and have realistic plans. They know their place it the market and their strengths and weaknesses. I think we will soon see them get out of the current recession.
I still regret that they aren't attempting to do much with the desktop, a huge company with thousands of worker could do some amazing things for Linux and desktop Linux. Especially since their OS, Solaris has by far the most stable code and in some areas fastest. Their OS also is incredibly more powerful in a few areas where Linux is missing out. They already have Intel ports, it wouldn't be very hard to implement the code, but I understand the situation and I know this probably would show a loss of focus and would not be practical. But the gains for Linux would be great, probably not so for Sun though.
Sun has already contributed a lot to Open Source, StarOffice, Sun Grid Engine and countless other things. Certainly much more than IBM has, the 1 billion they spend wasn't on Linux, it was on porting their stuff to Linux.
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