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Sun CEO On Razors And Blades
Kadin2048 writes "In an interview with BusinessWeek online, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy sheds some light on the company's new business model and future direction. In particular, he said that Sun's recent open source moves were part of a new strategy, where 'The software is the razor. The razor blades are the servers.' The move was called a huge risk by BusinessWeek, and it would put Sun at odds with the more traditional Microsoft-esque model with high per-seat or per-server software licensing costs and use commodity PCs and servers, which may not go over well with investors. But after having seen its stock slide and users flee for Linux and Windows, they arguably have little to lose. Perhaps the most interesting development to Slashdot readers is that in an effort to draw new developers to the platform, Sun is offering a deal that seems torn from a cell-phone company playbook: offering a "free" Ultra 20 Opteron workstation if you sign up for a $29.95/mo, 3-year service contract."
20 opteron system, for $30 a year? Jeez, even if it's only for three years, and has craploads of other costs, I want me one of them...
You can still find a job,
go out and talk to a friend.
On the back of every magazine
there are those coupons you can send.
Why don't you join the Rosicrucians,
they can give you back your hope,
you can find your love with diagrams
on a plain brown envelope.
But you've used up all your coupons
except the one that seems
to be written on your wrist
along with several thousand dreams.
Now Santa Claus comes forward,
that's a razor in his mit;
and he puts on his dark glasses
and he shows you where to hit;
and then the cameras pan,
the stand in stunt man,
dress rehearsal rag,
it's just the dress rehearsal rag,
you know this dress rehearsal rag,
it's just a dress rehearsal rag.
Leonard Cohen
Dress Rehersal Rag
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Ok, so you have a little trouble understanding things (like slashdot moderation for example). There just isn't any substitute to being able to look at a figure on your screen, then print it out, show it to your boss/family etc. Personally I'm afraid that I'll end up shouting at the brain dead foriegner on the other end of the line.
BTW, over/under rated modeations are used mostly to combat posts that look right out of context. Most of your MM's will not read 3-4 level parent comments to figure out what's going on, when they can just look at the target post in the MM page. I'm sure any seasoned slashdotter has had their comment moderated overrated because some idiot doesn't like their point of view, but for the most part this mod is essential for keeping slashdot together.
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1 John 4:14