Sun’s plans…and how they could go wrong

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OwlWhacker writes “Sun’s top brass recently explained to me their strategy for avoiding oblivion – but it’s not entirely foolproof.

Sun Microsystems seeks to avoid oblivion by pursuing a simple but powerful strategy.

Its plan? Attack Red Hat, use control over the operating system and the platform to disrupt competitors’ pricing and business models, out-engineer everybody in the x86 space and use an alliance with Microsoft to fight a common enemy: IBM.”

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