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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. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post (second time today)

  2. Them and SCO. Yea. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    n/t

  3. Sun? Wrong three-letter company name... by danuary · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...an eternal, shriveled corporate coma sucking on the life support of patent lawsuits and royalties... I think SCO would be a much better target for the sentiment of this article: "Dear SCO: Make the world a better place -- just go away already. K Thx Bye"

  4. Re:Generally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Generally (Score:1)
    by FreeLinux (555387) on 14:37 Thursday 29 April 2004 (#9010031)

    "Tell them Linux is free. Fat free."

  5. Don't overlook AMD by donour · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For the moment, Sun has opteron servers at a fairly decent price. Don't count 'em out just yet.

  6. Having fun Trolling ? by anti-NAT · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shouldn't you go back under the bridge ?

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  7. Re:Companies can contract without folding by FattMattP · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think he means Millions of Instructions Per Second and probably meant to say that people need to learn that MHz isn't everything.

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