Sun Microsystems’ software chief on Tuesday unveiled details of Project Orion, the company’s utility-based pricing model for its Solaris operating system. Slated for rollout in June, Orion will build all of Sun’s software into the Solaris OS and offer a yearly subscription for Solaris, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s executive vice president of software, said at the vendor’s Worldwide Analyst Conference.
Sun Executive Details New Utility-Based Pricing Model For Solaris
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this won’t be enough to fix the company’s problems…
Instead of adapting to the new technologies and innovating, they insisted on selling expensive slow products. Now that they don’t sell much, they have to take advantage of their last customers as much as possible. Their yearly billing is more ridiculous than Microsoft or other companies’ licensing models.
Sun Microsystems’ software chief on Tuesday unveiled details of Project Orion, the company’s utility-based pricing model for its Solaris operating system.
I don’t have a utility that bills me a year in advance yet. And then bills me for every damn service the utility company offers me. We have Bundle ONE. This is amazingly funny.
The Sun software executive admitted that he’s “a bit of a cynic when it comes to metered billing” but said that, ultimately, the utility-based pricing model will make Sun software “easier to acquire, license, deploy and operate.”
I wonder why he’s a bit of a cynic. Probably because the pricing model is outrageous? And just who is it making it easier for? It sounds like it’s making it easier for Sun, not for the customers.
Sun also will continue to offer its traditional per-CPU pricing model for its Sun ONE stack and Solaris, Schwartz said.
Either way, we’ll figure how to get your money.
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I hope these guys don’t look up when it starts raining Dells.
Instead of adapting to the new technologies and innovating, they insisted on selling expensive slow products.
Oh please. You remind me of every MySQL user I know who whines to me that Oracle and DB2 are slow. I’ll say this, they certainly aren’t slow under load, and the same goes for much of the Sun ONE software.
I’ll just say this… the Sun ONE Messaging Server is anything but slow…
Hey now Bascule, don’t get all logical on these PC fanboys, their Linux machines and GeForce gee-wizz-bang over clocked video cards, you just might hurt their feelings 😉
The problem ISN’T the price, but the performance. I heard rumours of their next chip, however, it was never confirmed. Now with the press release, I can’t wait till they are released and SUN rises again. SUN has been throught tough times, and they will come out of this stronger.
By slow I meant the machines. We have Sun Sparc machines here which compete with similarly priced pentium machines, and they are dead slow. Also many other software products are slow too, especially their JVMs are slow compared to IBM and Microsoft JVMs.
There was an interesting article about Linux outperforming Solaris in java related work.
Hopefully SUN will pick up from that, however, they need to cut the cost of their cpu production. They need to get TSMC and UMC to start pumping out the CPU’s is volume and start cutting their prices to something close to what the Xeon is priced at.