Sun's Microsoft: Mistake
eWeek | at | by Mike
For Sun, it's Business 101: They need the money. Even with the $1.6 billion, Sun announced yet another big loss of between $750 million and $810 million for its last quarter and laid off 3,300 more people, amounting to 9 percent of its work force. Sun is one sick company.
Sun, it seems to me, has decided that the cure is not Linux or open source. Instead, Sun hopes to find its answers in getting closer to Microsoft.
You see, Microsoft and Sun do have two things in common. Linux and open source are eating their lunch, and they're not sure what to do about it. Of course, Sun is the company that's really feeling that pain now. Sun is losing SPARC and Solaris customers every day to AMD/Intel and Linux providers. But Microsoft didn't become Microsoft by underestimating the competition.