Sun Banks On Open Source For Its Survival

CWmike writes "In moving to cut its current workforce by between 15% and 18% today, Sun is trying to stay ahead of a falling knife. And today's announcement made it clear that Sun officials are banking on the company's open-source strategy to help it pull through. A cut of up to 6,000 employees at Sun will hurt, but CEO Jonathan Schwartz contends users will be more inclined to try open-source products such as MySQL, OpenSolaris and Sun's GlassFish application server during a time of economic stress." Reader Barence also pointed out that Sun will begin to auction "branding space" in OpenOffice.

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Re:Strategy

[Anonymous Coward]

You are an idiot, the very point of OpenSolaris remaining is so it doesn't give any advantages to the Linux world. If everyone can use the OpenSolaris stuff, why bother with Sun at all, get it?

Nutbars like you need to shut up about Linux, and start with thinking before preaching about your faggy operating system.

By by Java

[tjstork]

Scott McNeally used to say that he had no idea how he was going to make money off of Java, by giving it away. Well, now we know that he didn't and his successors didn't and it looks like there's about 6,000 less reasons for that platform to advance.