Actually, I think this business plan would be preferable--
This paper outlines a new business strategy for Sun Microsystems Inc. (Sun) that seems to greatly improve upon the company's current one. By adopting this paper's ideas, it seems that Sun can re-orientate itself, in a straightforward manner, to vastly increased profitability - away from its current path to demise. However, the window of opportunity for the strategy's execution is limited due to the growing enterprise functionality and corporate support of the open-source Linux operating system and the growth of the Microsoft.NET software platform.
Sun Microsystems Inc. should leave the production of low-end 'Lintel' machines to Acer, HP, and other Taiwanese clone makers who are more experienced in this segment and have stronger relationships with low-end Intel customers. In fact, I believe Sun could more effectively leverage their intellectual property by adapting their Solaris/SPARC[tm] platform for the low end - and then hamper Linux completely.
A petition is available to sign on this matter:
petition for Sun, which refers to the website scottmcnealy.com !
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Actually, I think this business plan would be preferable-- This paper outlines a new business strategy for Sun Microsystems Inc. (Sun) that seems to greatly improve upon the company's current one. By adopting this paper's ideas, it seems that Sun can re-orientate itself, in a straightforward manner, to vastly increased profitability - away from its current path to demise. However, the window of opportunity for the strategy's execution is limited due to the growing enterprise functionality and corporate support of the open-source Linux operating system and the growth of the Microsoft .NET software platform.
Sun Microsystems Inc. should leave the production of low-end 'Lintel' machines to Acer, HP, and other Taiwanese clone makers who are more experienced in this segment and have stronger relationships with low-end Intel customers. In fact, I believe Sun could more effectively leverage their intellectual property by adapting their Solaris/SPARC[tm] platform for the low end - and then hamper Linux completely. A petition is available to sign on this matter: petition for Sun, which refers to the website scottmcnealy.com !