"Jonathan Schwartz is a man on a mission. While at Linuxworld today, I took an hour to visit with Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems. After spending an hour prodding Jonathan with questions about Sun's history and future with open source, I was left with one clear impression: Sun is rising, and open source is the driver behind its rebirth."
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Member since:2006-12-07
Steve Ballmer might be a dinosaur, but he is making incredible amounts of money for his company. I am sad to say that J. Schwartz is not nearly that successful. His sincere approach might look good in the media, but won't pay the bills I am afraid.
There is not that much money in Open Source business, and Red Hat takes the most of it. Red Hat will kill their business. RHEL is very, very professional peace of software. To be honest, Mr. Schwartz looks a bit lost to me.
I think that they should try to create non-free desktop OS that competes with MAC and Windows, with all the comparative features. They are in position to own the OS code, and it is a great opportunity. It should be a consumer product in the first place, because enterprise desktop is harder to win.
For the enterprise, they should try Network Computer and/or Java Station again. Java Station with Thinkfree Office suite looks promising.
I know that they have been in server business from the beginning, but the times are changing.
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2007-07-27
for a large enterprise company to give away all it's crown jewels; java, solaris, dtrace, zfs, zones, etc. For this, they are getting shit from the Linux camp. I would like to see IBM, Microsoft, HP, Oracle, etc to give away it's crown jewels, for anyone to pick it up. Would that happen? Not very likely, it takes courage and above all; lateral thinking. Thinking in new directions. That is very very hard to do, and requires cleverness. Do you think Steve Ballmer is capable of such thinking? No, hes like a dinosaur, that has always done in certain way, and wont change.