Sun's board and shareholders would do good to fire the management of the company. Sun has never made good revenues from software development efforts and their hardware/OS isn't anything you can't get from IBM or HP at competitive prices.
Their stock is down under 4.00 and headed for the penny stock market.
They gave away the one good software product they have..Java..and the fact that it's become a better product over time is due to the contributions of developers from other companies...the ones that make profits from it.
McNealy's MS bashing is the same failed management defined strategy used by Jobs at Apple in the 80's and Netscape in the 90's. Apple took a big fall after that and we all know where Netscape is. Bashing the competition as a sole marketing strategy for your new product is a sorry excuse for a marketing campaign. I don't doubt that their new 'web services ide' isn't just as much hype as their previous attempts at software product development done without the assistance of engineers from more competent companies and put up for sale.
The fact that multiple former employees are bringing suit is just a PR burn undoubtedly created by bad management decisions. It just shows a complete lack of loyalty between Sun and it's employees and given the debacles at Eron/Worldcom etc it's that's just plain bad PR for the management of the company.
The strength and quality of a company's products is definitely reflected in it's relationship with its employees and requires maintaining loyalty from a company.
Laying people off isn't just bad PR, it shows an incompetent management team that is incapable of marketing and selling products...and obviously too stupid to keep the people that make the products making them. The fact is the management team is unable to get people to produce good quality products that customers need and desire and get those products marketed and sold and that's why they call upon the God Economy and use it as an excuse for their own failure.
The fact is computer systems are used to increase productivity and income so a bad economy should be a better market for computer systems.
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Sun's board and shareholders would do good to fire the management of the company. Sun has never made good revenues from software development efforts and their hardware/OS isn't anything you can't get from IBM or HP at competitive prices.
Their stock is down under 4.00 and headed for the penny stock market.
They gave away the one good software product they have..Java..and the fact that it's become a better product over time is due to the contributions of developers from other companies...the ones that make profits from it.
McNealy's MS bashing is the same failed management defined strategy used by Jobs at Apple in the 80's and Netscape in the 90's. Apple took a big fall after that and we all know where Netscape is. Bashing the competition as a sole marketing strategy for your new product is a sorry excuse for a marketing campaign. I don't doubt that their new 'web services ide' isn't just as much hype as their previous attempts at software product development done without the assistance of engineers from more competent companies and put up for sale.
The fact that multiple former employees are bringing suit is just a PR burn undoubtedly created by bad management decisions. It just shows a complete lack of loyalty between Sun and it's employees and given the debacles at Eron/Worldcom etc it's that's just plain bad PR for the management of the company.
The strength and quality of a company's products is definitely reflected in it's relationship with its employees and requires maintaining loyalty from a company.
Laying people off isn't just bad PR, it shows an incompetent management team that is incapable of marketing and selling products...and obviously too stupid to keep the people that make the products making them. The fact is the management team is unable to get people to produce good quality products that customers need and desire and get those products marketed and sold and that's why they call upon the God Economy and use it as an excuse for their own failure.
The fact is computer systems are used to increase productivity and income so a bad economy should be a better market for computer systems.