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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. 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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