Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 19, 2005 05:51 PM
and so will your company be doomed if you make the mistake of implementing or sticking with Sun's Solaris, Java or hardware solutions. Doomed. Sun's selling of Linux is only because they're former or about to be former customers are insisting on it or will walk away. So they'll sell you Linux if you really, really want it. But they'll still try to convince you of the error of your ways, and will still pester you to buy Solaris over the life of the hardware you buy.
Do you really want to trust your business in their Solaris focused and pushed environment? Their "closed open source" environment? Do you really want to trust your business with a company attempting to undermine Linux and FOSS at every opportunity? Do you really want to get stuck with a company and operating system that is not supported or sold by any other major hardware manufacturer? Even when their revenue continues to decline? Or invest considerable time, effort and development funds into "closed open source" Java?
The world is migrating to...fill in the blank here. Are you going to join the rest of the world, or join Sun on their little island? An island that has a tidal wave headed in its direction?
Are you going to use or continue to use Solaris and/or Java and <A HREF="http://news.com.com/Developers+slam+Microsofts+Visual+Basic+plan/2100-1007_3-5615331.html?tag=nefd.top" title="com.com">end up in this situation</a com.com>? Or are you going to give your company every opportunity to succeed by moving to a truly open system with developers all over the world? Are you going to make the move now and get an edge on the laggards? Or are you going to be a laggard and watch as your competitors overtake you and your company? Do you want to go down in company history and tech history as a leader who made the right move? Or as a colossal idiot who blew it monumentally?
What's it going to be? Strong and smart leader who deserves the credit? Or the guy everyone points to and whispers about when the blame is layed for the failure of the company's IT backbone, or the failure of portability when Sun 1. jacks prices to meet their numbers one last time, 2. drops more and more support/developers, 3. fades away or implodes?
What are you going to do, make the right decision, or the wrong decision. Sun is doomed. You know it and I know it. Soon enough, every CEO and President will also know it, or be forced to admit it. And then where will you be?
Sun is the next SCO. A shell of a company used as a prop for their litigation machine. Will your company be a shell of its former self too?
And for the litigation machine, all the former (including earlier posts above) is opinion only. Opinion that by judging of dates of past posts and events that actually unfold after the posts were made, appear to be extremely accurate.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 19, 2005 05:51 PMDo you really want to trust your business in their Solaris focused and pushed environment? Their "closed open source" environment? Do you really want to trust your business with a company attempting to undermine Linux and FOSS at every opportunity? Do you really want to get stuck with a company and operating system that is not supported or sold by any other major hardware manufacturer? Even when their revenue continues to decline? Or invest considerable time, effort and development funds into "closed open source" Java?
The world is migrating to...fill in the blank here. Are you going to join the rest of the world, or join Sun on their little island? An island that has a tidal wave headed in its direction?
Are you going to use or continue to use Solaris and/or Java and <A HREF="http://news.com.com/Developers+slam+Microsofts+Visual+Basic+plan/2100-1007_3-5615331.html?tag=nefd.top" title="com.com">end up in this situation</a com.com>? Or are you going to give your company every opportunity to succeed by moving to a truly open system with developers all over the world? Are you going to make the move now and get an edge on the laggards? Or are you going to be a laggard and watch as your competitors overtake you and your company? Do you want to go down in company history and tech history as a leader who made the right move? Or as a colossal idiot who blew it monumentally?
What's it going to be? Strong and smart leader who deserves the credit? Or the guy everyone points to and whispers about when the blame is layed for the failure of the company's IT backbone, or the failure of portability when Sun 1. jacks prices to meet their numbers one last time, 2. drops more and more support/developers, 3. fades away or implodes?
What are you going to do, make the right decision, or the wrong decision. Sun is doomed. You know it and I know it. Soon enough, every CEO and President will also know it, or be forced to admit it. And then where will you be?
Sun is the next SCO. A shell of a company used as a prop for their litigation machine. Will your company be a shell of its former self too?
And for the litigation machine, all the former (including earlier posts above) is opinion only. Opinion that by judging of dates of past posts and events that actually unfold after the posts were made, appear to be extremely accurate.
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