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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I think you are wrong there. The way I see it making Start Office / Open Office available was a stroke of genious. Microsoft dominate the desktop primarilly because of the lock-in effect of "Defacto Document exchange formats". Most of the worlds documents are written in Word 97 compatible formats and until recently no alternative application read these documents well enough. Any that did were also Windows applications (EG Lotus WordPro). The existance of OpenOffice on Unix for the first time allows the specification of a corporate desktop environment NOT based on Windows. The other lynch-pins are the Evolution plug-in for Microsoft Exchange Servers and Netscape Navigator.
I work for a company with 35000 workers 75% of which can now be serviced adequately with PCs NOT based on Windows.... Microsoft knows this, beware the next lock-in technology !
Bob