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May 7th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Simple - Sun sells SPARC and x86 systems, running Solaris or Linux. Java lets them sell more hardware because the same network applications run on all of it.
Same with IBM, only they’re worse off - mainframe, POWER, PowerPC, and x86, running zOS, AIX, Windows (XP or Vista), Linux, Solaris, OS/400, and who knows what else. They’re also very big Java supporters, and I’m sure would take over if Sun went under (they’ve contributed Eclipse, an embedded Java database, and a few frameworks as well as big parts of the standard and enterprise Java libraries).
May 13th, 2008 at 9:54 am
I heard the same argument before. However spending money on Java doesn’t directly translate to revenue for Sun.
It works for IBM better because they are in consulting business, which Sun is not. In consulting business you can get greater mindshare by releasing open source products like IBM does. Unfortunately it doesn’t translate so well with hardware as you can see with Sun.