Fight! Sun and IBM have been joining verbal battle over the future of the server OS and Java in recent weeks.
In the most recent skirmish, Sun's software EVP Jonathan Schwartz wrote an open letter to IBM's Sam Palmisano on IBM's options for the desktop after Big Blue had issued a memo to all staff urging them to switch over to Linux on their desktops.
Schwartz's response was fourfold:
1. Sun's already moved to a non-Microsoft desktop - specifically, Java
2. Guess what? Java saves you money
3. Try our Java Enterprise server instead of your clunky old Lotus Notes/Websphere thing
4. What happened to Linux - why aren't you reselling it?
He concluded: "I guess I just don't understand your Linux strategy."
View: Complete article at TechWorld
View: Neowin - IBM urges Sun to make Java open source
News source: TechWorld
In the most recent skirmish, Sun's software EVP Jonathan Schwartz wrote an open letter to IBM's Sam Palmisano on IBM's options for the desktop after Big Blue had issued a memo to all staff urging them to switch over to Linux on their desktops.
Schwartz's response was fourfold:
1. Sun's already moved to a non-Microsoft desktop - specifically, Java
2. Guess what? Java saves you money
3. Try our Java Enterprise server instead of your clunky old Lotus Notes/Websphere thing
4. What happened to Linux - why aren't you reselling it?
He concluded: "I guess I just don't understand your Linux strategy."
View: Complete article at TechWorld View: Neowin - IBM urges Sun to make Java open source News source: TechWorld
I'll leave you to decide exactly how good it is; the first comment on the page is a bit... depressing!
Round 1.... Fight!
I wonder who will be the one to perform the fatality.
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Linux server sales are up 60%. Sounds like a small, but expanding market to be in. This is the time where you need to dominate to keep the sales momentum up on additional units to previous customers.
Now, as far as Jon Schwartz's comment, "I guess I just don't understand your Linux strategy."... Who understands
Sun's strategy?
I would like for them to quantify "Java saves you money". Simply saying something like this wasn't enough five years ago, much less now. It might be almost as interesting as the German government quantifying how much money they would save by switching to Linux.
Me thinks someone at Sun had a three-martini lunch before hitting the Send button...
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