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Should Sun Just Fold Now?
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?"
The poor poster is going to be sheep-modded into oblivion now that there's a Flamebait on there, as opposed to a Funny. I'm guessing the post was meant as a joke, rather than to piss people off.
How could this get posted? It is just as bad as the stupid BSD are dying trolls.
Why would Sun just close shop? Wouldn't any company want to try to go out with a fight? What benefit do they (the company) get out of quiting? Even if things don't turn around for them, they could always hope to get bought out.
If somebody figured out how to build 'economy cars' that could go 200MPH and looked cool, I bet Ferrari's sales would suffer. The demand for high powered Sun hardware and Solaris is not what it used to be before Linux was developed to the point that it is today.