[wellylug] Finally... OpenSolaris is on it's way

[Rob Giltrap]

Peter Jones wrote:

>What Sun needs to do is to establish itself as the de facto UNIX (not Linux)
>software vendor. Drop the hardware, make Solaris run beautifully on every
>high-end system from every manufacturer and compete with Linux by offering
>world-class consulting, service and support. Fortune 500 companies would
>sigh with relief, but Sun would also have to accept that the company will
>shrink in sales and headcount, though not in profit. This is the only viable
>strategy left for Sun, which is going to shrink dramatically anyway,
>possibly to nothing."
>

This is exactly the opposite of what Sun is doing. All the pundits seem 
to argue that Sun should align horizontally. It ain't going to happen, 
Sun has always been a vertically integrated company and will continue to 
be so. The downside to this is that you get hurt much harder in an 
economic downturn but it allows you to break new ground when the economy 
picks up.