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Nice to finally see a visionary in charge of Sun.

• GiraffeNecktie 17y ago
  Visionary? That's a nice way of putting it. I'm wondering what the hell's he smoking to give him this vision of Sun flogging the lowest of low end, low margin commodity PCs. How are they going to make any money and what good will it do for the positioning of the Sun brand?
  • axod 17y ago
    Well for a start, they could really champion Java on them. If they won with that, that would be a fantastic move - and it makes quite a bit of sense.
    • GiraffeNecktie 17y ago
      Makes sense in what way? I don't see any special synergy between Java and netbooks, certainly nothing that needs championing by Sun. If you need Java on your netbook - and most people don't - it's there already.
      • axod 17y ago
        It makes sense in terms of having a stable platform to deploy apps to. Java has worked pretty well on mobile phones. Imagine a netbook which just runs a java O/S. Maybe it has a java app store with all the apps you could ever want, and a kick ass browser.
• dmix 17y ago
  Ellison was a visionary with Network Computers in the 90s, although that failed to take off. Netbook's are a much safer bet now that many companies are already manufacturing them. It might be a good business move but I'd be hesitant to call that visionary.