New Hopes From Sun's Idea Factory

UltimaGuy writes "While it's way too soon to say Sun is back on track, the return of Bechtolsheim, aggressive improvements in products and a healthy dose of humility among Sun's executives mean the troubled company and its investors have more cause for optimism than they've had in years." Of course, Sun's problems are still out there - dealing with projects like Geronimo for some of their base infrastructure, and of course other companies promoting Linux as the solution.

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Thank the DoD

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I'm pretty sure the DoD singlehandedly props up Sun. As a developer I find Sun/Solaris a complete paint-in-the-ass to work with. Impossible to find binary versions for most packages, endless back-and-forth dealing with version dependencies, and ordering a server that didn't come with a CD drive, DVD drive or video card? Puhhleeeze. Then the admins blindly install Sun updates and we all get to be Sun's gunieapigs learning side-effects.