Sun plans to make all its software free
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Good business plan, NOT!
Sun Microsystems president and COO Jonathan Schwartz on Thursday cited the company's plans to eventually offer all of its software for free as a way to build communities around its technologies.
"The net upside of that is we get more people engaged in our community," Schwartz said of Sun's plans while speaking at the AlwaysOn conference here.
Sun currently offers its Solaris operating system components freely via open source. Technologies such as Java also are downloadable at no charge.