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how about instead of 500,000 people buying the album, 1 million download it for free and 100,000 of these each donate $5 to the band thus leaving each band member with $125,000 each - instead of the $38 grand each with the current model.

For more details on a donation type music model go here and also suss out MusicLink and also Cringely article on the topic.

This paper outlines a potential business strategy for Sun Microsystems Inc. that differs from the current strategy by limiting Java's release to Solaris only, open-sourcing Solaris and Sun ONE, and then allowing the cloning of Sun's SPARC architecture. Ideally, the market becomes suffused with inexpensive Sun compatible hardware working with Sun's free Java software (or licensed competitor offerings). To work, this strategy requires developers choose the J2EE platform instead of Microsoft .NET so then industry must use Sun or Sun compatible hardware without the choice of selecting Intel based hardware including those from IBM, HP or Dell, as Java is not available on those platforms. Sun's sustainable advantage comes from owning, implementing, and licensing the Sun SPARC and Java standards. Both of these standards become dependent on each other so that an implementation of each is required in any one system for it to operate correctly. The strategy is possible because Sun is the last vertically integrated computer company, making its own chips, circuit boards and software (Forbes, 2002) while also controlling the popular Java programming language. The strategy partly comes as a response to the speech McNealy on Strategy with the company affliction that it mentions. However, the window of opportunity for this strategy's execution is limited due to the growing enterprise functionality and corporate support of the open-source Linux operating system and the growth of the Microsoft .NET software platform. Not discussed in this paper is the additional possibility of Sun merging with Sony so that the author's GrooveTip entertainment idea may be executed. If you are happy with this strategy to save Sun then please sign the petition.

This paper outlines a potential business strategy for Sun Microsystems Inc. that differs from the current strategy by limiting Java's release to Solaris only, open-sourcing Solaris and Sun ONE, and then allowing the cloning of Sun's SPARC architecture. Ideally, the market becomes suffused with inexpensive Sun compatible hardware working with Sun's free Java software (or licensed competitor offerings). To work, this strategy requires developers choose the J2EE platform instead of Microsoft .NET so then industry must use Sun or Sun compatible hardware without the choice of selecting Intel based hardware including those from IBM, HP or Dell, as Java is not available on those platforms. Sun's sustainable advantage comes from owning, implementing, and licensing the Sun SPARC and Java standards. Both of these standards become dependent on each other so that an implementation of each is required in any one system for it to operate correctly. The strategy is possible because Sun is the last vertically integrated computer company, making its own chips, circuit boards and software (Forbes, 2002) while also controlling the popular Java programming language. The strategy partly comes as a response to the speech McNealy on Strategy with the company affliction that it mentions. However, the window of opportunity for this strategy's execution is limited due to the growing enterprise functionality and corporate support of the open-source Linux operating system and the growth of the Microsoft .NET software platform. Not discussed in this paper is the additional possibility of Sun merging with Sony so that the author's GrooveTip entertainment idea may be executed. If you are happy with this strategy to save Sun then please sign the petition.

This paper outlines a potential business strategy for Sun Microsystems Inc. that differs from the current strategy by limiting Java's release to Solaris only, open-sourcing Solaris and Sun ONE, and then allowing the cloning of Sun's SPARC architecture. Ideally, the market becomes suffused with inexpensive Sun compatible hardware working with Sun's free Java software (or licensed competitor offerings). To work, this strategy requires developers choose the J2EE platform instead of Microsoft .NET so then industry must use Sun or Sun compatible hardware without the choice of selecting Intel based hardware including those from IBM, HP or Dell, as Java is not available on those platforms. Sun's sustainable advantage comes from owning, implementing, and licensing the Sun SPARC and Java standards. Both of these standards become dependent on each other so that an implementation of each is required in any one system for it to operate correctly. The strategy is possible because Sun is the last vertically integrated computer company, making its own chips, circuit boards and software (Forbes, 2002) while also controlling the popular Java programming language. The strategy partly comes as a response to the speech McNealy on Strategy with the company affliction that it mentions. However, the window of opportunity for this strategy's execution is limited due to the growing enterprise functionality and corporate support of the open-source Linux operating system and the growth of the Microsoft .NET software platform. Not discussed in this paper is the additional possibility of Sun merging with Sony so that the author's GrooveTip entertainment idea may be executed. If you are happy with this strategy to save Sun then please sign the petition.

This paper outlines a potential business strategy for Sun Microsystems Inc. that differs from the current strategy by limiting Java's release to Solaris only, open-sourcing Solaris and Sun ONE, and then allowing the cloning of Sun's SPARC architecture. Ideally, the market becomes suffused with inexpensive Sun compatible hardware working with Sun's free Java software (or licensed competitor offerings). To work, this strategy requires developers choose the J2EE platform instead of Microsoft .NET so then industry must use Sun or Sun compatible hardware without the choice of selecting Intel based hardware including those from IBM, HP or Dell, as Java is not available on those platforms. Sun's sustainable advantage comes from owning, implementing, and licensing the Sun SPARC and Java standards. Both of these standards become dependent on each other so that an implementation of each is required in any one system for it to operate correctly. The strategy is possible because Sun is the last vertically integrated computer company, making its own chips, circuit boards and software (Forbes, 2002) while also controlling the popular Java programming language. The strategy partly comes as a response to the speech McNealy on Strategy with the company affliction that it mentions. However, the window of opportunity for this strategy's execution is limited due to the growing enterprise functionality and corporate support of the open-source Linux operating system and the growth of the Microsoft .NET software platform. Not discussed in this paper is the additional possibility of Sun merging with Sony so that the author's GrooveTip entertainment idea may be executed. If you are happy with this strategy to save Sun then please sign the petition.

This paper outlines a potential business strategy for Sun Microsystems Inc. that differs from the current strategy by limiting Java's release to Solaris only, open-sourcing Solaris and Sun ONE, and then allowing the cloning of Sun's SPARC architecture. Ideally, the market becomes suffused with inexpensive Sun compatible hardware working with Sun's free Java software (or licensed competitor offerings). To work, this strategy requires developers choose the J2EE platform instead of Microsoft .NET so then industry must use Sun or Sun compatible hardware without the choice of selecting Intel based hardware including those from IBM, HP or Dell, as Java is not available on those platforms. Sun's sustainable advantage comes from owning, implementing, and licensing the Sun SPARC and Java standards. Both of these standards become dependent on each other so that an implementation of each is required in any one system for it to operate correctly. The strategy is possible because Sun is the last vertically integrated computer company, making its own chips, circuit boards and software (Forbes, 2002) while also controlling the popular Java programming language. The strategy partly comes as a response to the speech McNealy on Strategy with the company affliction that it mentions. However, the window of opportunity for this strategy's execution is limited due to the growing enterprise functionality and corporate support of the open-source Linux operating system and the growth of the Microsoft .NET software platform. Not discussed in this paper is the additional possibility of Sun merging with Sony so that the author's GrooveTip entertainment idea may be executed. If you are happy with this strategy to save Sun then please sign the petition.

Actually, I think this business plan would be preferable-- This paper outlines a new business strategy for Sun Microsystems Inc. (Sun) that seems to greatly improve upon the company's current one. By adopting this paper's ideas, it seems that Sun can re-orientate itself, in a straightforward manner, to vastly increased profitability - away from its current path to demise. However, the window of opportunity for the strategy's execution is limited due to the growing enterprise functionality and corporate support of the open-source Linux operating system and the growth of the Microsoft .NET software platform.

Sun Microsystems Inc. should leave the production of low-end 'Lintel' machines to Acer, HP, and other Taiwanese clone makers who are more experienced in this segment and have stronger relationships with low-end Intel customers. In fact, I believe Sun could more effectively leverage their intellectual property by adapting their Solaris/SPARC[tm] platform for the low end - and then hamper Linux completely. A petition is available to sign on this matter: petition for Sun, which refers to the website scottmcnealy.com !