Star A Chat with John Fowler, Sun Software CTO
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 3rd Dec 2002 01:59 UTC
SUN Microsystems 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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Re: On "can MS buy Sun?"
by rajan r on Tue 3rd Dec 2002 15:33 UTC

Both SPARC and Solaris uses a lot of patents owned by Sun. With the patents, Microsoft can successfully prevent such a thing to happen (plus, they would probably sell SPARC to some other company).

Besides, you are over-estimating the engineer's reaction. THEY AREN'T ANTI-MS. The people on top may be, but the people working couldn't care less, as long it pays. And if working for Microsoft pays, so be it.

Plus, the working enviroment in Microsoft is way more better than Sun from what I heard. People rather get a low-rank, low-paying job at Microsoft than to work in some company like Sun which treats its engineers like assets.

But anyway, Microsoft have little to no reason to buy Sun. There isn't a reason to. What would they need? They aren't, for sure, interested in hardware. They have something more or less better than Java (if not, it would be easy and cheaper making it better), it is staunchly anti-UNIX since they sold Xenix, and not really the biggest fan of open standards.