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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."
Moderators, please note putko's posting history. Bigotry this exaggerated could only be a twisted attempt at irony, right? But in light of some of his other comments, which range from the vaguely hostile towards Jews to the circumstantially Buchananesque, it would seem his remarks are entirely sincere.
This sort of intolerant, ignorant drivel is an embarrassment to us all. With your help, moderators, we can drive him down to posting at -1 where he belongs.
And how do you expect them to acquire money if it's not in exchange for goods and/or services ? At least they're offering "something" in exchange for your dollars, it's not OUTRIGHT extortion like some other companies *cough*IwillresistthetemptationtobashM...*cough*
The quality of their hardware is shit. Please take a look at benchmarks for processors even intel is beating G5s. Power is a pretty good architecture, but how can you fk it up so badly? Apple has been doing that with powerpc line as well, take a decent processor, make it suck put it into their computers.
MacosX was also hacked together by idiots, it looks pretty to a certain extent, but that's that.
Installing Linux on the same mac box results in almost 4 times increase in performance, try it.
So you are just paying for a pretty package, which is another argument and sometimes I might consider investing into a pretty package.