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> The software side is shackled by the fact that they need to move in a direction that is going to erode revenue from the hardware side. Unless they move into
by jwilliams 18y ago
> The software side is shackled by the fact that they need to move in a direction that is going to erode revenue from the hardware side.
Unless they move into the cloud domain - in which case, their expertise in both areas (software/hardware) will be complimentary and useful.
- alexandros 18y agocome to think of it, sun may be the only company to have the entire stack of technologies in house... chips, servers, os, VM, programming language, development environment.. cloud computing seems an obvious direction.. perhaps they are doing that already?
- jwilliams 18y ago> perhaps they are doing that already? Not really - the one piece of the puzzle that Sun doesn't really have is services (aside from support).