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Should Sun Just Fold Now?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-thats-a-bit-extreme dept.

KE1LR writes "The Silicon Insider at ABCnews.com is taking the position that Sun Microsystems, creator of the SPARC architecutre and, oh yeah, Java, should just give up and close shop instead of continuing to wither. I agree that Sun would have to have to do something dramatic to avoid what is looking more and more like an inevitability at this point, but what could stop this slide toward the same fate as DEC? Might they have anything in the works that could save them? What could it be?"

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  1. That's obvious by Hanna's+Goblin+Toys · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should acquire BSD, which will teach them how to continue dying... forever.

    1. Re:That's obvious by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Free and Open are not in Sun's Vocabulary

      OpenWindows, OpenOffice, OpenFirmware... I think they've got Open down pretty well. Can't speak to "Free".

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  2. Well.. by darth_MALL · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Might they have anything in the works that could save them? What could it be?" ...perhaps a nanofactory patent?

  3. New game in town! by zerocool^ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Move over Apple, move over BSD! There's a new game in town, and its name is SUN!

    Come on, guys. Everyone's been talking about all these guy's deaths forever, but they're still here. There's a market for all of them.

    ~Will

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  4. The next Java? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Might they have anything in the works that could save them? What could it be?"

    I hear tell they're developing a new, revolutionary programming language. This one reduces bugs by eliminating constructs that often contribute to them: classes, functions, variables, branching, looping, and mathematical operations.

  5. Sun is dead [must see] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Netcraft confirms it.

  6. Insert Sarcastic Comment Here by glassware · · Score: 3, Funny
    ... creator of the SPARC architecutre and, oh yeah, Java, ...

    One out of two ain't bad.

  7. Re:personnal opinion by guacamole · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course, only with Sun processors, the ability to hot swap processor boards on a Quad CPU system seems to be so useful. After all, Sun processors seem to be failing so often. I have yet to see a Xeon or Pentium CPU fail. With Sun, sometimes they just don't work out of box as shipped by Sun. Sometimes they fail a few months after you buy a system.. and don't forget the embarasing story with failing Ultra Sparc II processors taking down eBay not so long ago and Sun taking more than a year to figure out what the problem was.

  8. Apple donates the "Beleaguered" adjective to Sun by ztirffritz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Finally Apple is not the company slowly dying...

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