Sun is following through on its strategy of building systems for service providers in the new world of web2.0, SaaS and communications over IP- a trend CTO Greg has called Red Shift (see video Redshift: The Explosion of Massive-Scale Systems by Greg where he walks you through this shift.) Jonathan Schwarz has argued in several […]
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Sun winner as IDC validates Jonathan Schwarz’s Bus Metaphor
As I wrote in a recent post The comeback story of Sun, Sun seems to have made some good solid bets in hardware and they seem to be paying off. Jonathan Schwarz recently wrote a post on the move towards bigger servers entitled The Glamor in Mass Transit. The latest IDC report on servers confirms […]
The comeback story of Sun
Many in the tech world including myself had written Sun off as a real player. They were a dieing company selling ever decreasing number of expensive boxes to people that still had to because they were locked in. Java, a distribution success, never contributed financially to Sun’s bottom line in any meaningful way. Over the […]