Sun Microsystems is taking a pounding on Wall Street today. Weak financial results stunned investors, and CEO Jonathan Schwartz’s strategy to transform the company will surely come under fire. Is there hope for Sun? The VAR Guy seems to think so. Here’s why.
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Sun’s open source strategy overshadowed by legacy businesses
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Sun reported a nightmare quarter, elicited more cold Java analogies than I can count and announced layoffs due to a weak economy. Can open source move the needle at Sun and spark some growth? In a word: No.
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Will market reject Sun’s open source vision?
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As I noted here in January, while Sun sits at the bottom of the open source incline, having embraced GPL licensing, it actually sits near the top of the open source development incline. This means Sun’s projects are essentially proprietary efforts. Sun decides the strategy, Sun controls the code releases. Sun “owns” mySQL, and takes that ownership seriously.
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Sun Financials: Not Good News for Open Source
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Sun Microsystems has announced its 3rd Quarter earnings - and its stock promptly took a substantial hit. No wonder, since the company managed to report a loss of $34 million instead of the profit that analysts were expecting, and may be cutting up to 7.5% of its employees - 2500 jobs.
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Will open source save Sun?
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Sun Microsystems' most recent quarter took a hit from a slumping U.S. economy, according to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Revenue from Sun's server computers and storage products fell 2.8 percent. The company plans up to 2,500 job cuts as it seeks to balance expenses with growth.
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KnowledgeTree business model hits many a niche
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These days, effective document management means accessibility from anywhere on the planet, electronic storage, reliable backup, and instant document modification updates. KnowledgeTree offers all that and more. It's available in several editions, including an open source community version (which we reviewed last year) that businesses can tailor to their individual needs.
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Mini Review: Open Source in Harvard Business Review
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While bored in an airport recently, I pored over the magazines at a newsstand and noticed that the new Harvard Business Review (April 2008) has an article on open source. Curious to know how the corporate types view open source, I got hold of the issue - at my local library rather than paying the Harvard-style $16 cover price - and read it. Here are my impressions.
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Quick Mention: Novell -> Peerless -> Kyocera-Mita -> Microsoft
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Among the companies which foolishly signed a software patent deal with Microsoft we have Novell and Kyocera-Mita. Both deals involved Linux specifically.
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Vista Business . . . boring.
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Last night I went to a presentation/pitch for Vista deployment in the enterprise (there's a Star-Trek joke in there somewhere). It's not that I'm dissatisfied with Linux, but I like to know what's going on with Windows, especially since we do deploy Windows machines at work. At some level I always want to learn something new. What I learned was more pitch than enlightenment.
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Adobe establishes Open Screen Project, opens SWF and FLV formats
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Adobe's Open Screen Project aims to create one Flash and one AIR runtime that can run across PCs and other smaller form-factor devices. Adobe has also removed the licensing restrictions for proprietary media formats used with Flash (FLV and SWF), so developers can now create their own third-party Flash players.
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IBM open collaboration client solution: Technical planning
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Learn the steps involved in migrating your environment to that of a Linux client, including technical planning. Based on customer experiences, this article offers a comprehensive guide to planning and executing your migration while minimizing disruption to your users.
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Linux server provisioning aided by open source tool
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Brian McArthur, the director of technology at Advantage Professionals, a managed services provider in Charlotte, N.C., wanted a better way to perform bare-metal installations on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server. He and his engineering staff used a pre-boot execution environment or PXE Boot server and the kick-start process for automating Linux installations.
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Red Hat pitching proprietary lock-in as "open"
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Ah, how the mighty have fallen. In what must have been gross oversight, Red Hat is pitching proprietary software on its website under the banner of "No vendor lock-in." The way Red Hat and IBM make it appear, simply running one's software on an open platform like Linux magically removes the proprietary lock-in of the application.
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Sun sheds light on its open-source future
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Sun UK's chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, has a high-profile role to play as the company aims to complete its move to 100 percent open software development.
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Black Duck acquires Koders.com
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Black Duck Software, a company best known for its services and software for the procurement and re-use of open source software, has acquired Koders, and with it the popular Koders.com search engine for free and open source software code (FOSS).
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