Will Glassfish Validate Schwartz' Open Source Strategy?

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Yep, it's helping

Sun just had their first "officially" profitable quarter in like 5 years.

And look at their software business until recently. When they were selling proprietary licenses of various products, they weren't generating much revenue or profit. They were nosediving, and license revenue was something 3 or 4 % of Sun's total revenue (the rest being hardware and services, of course).

So basically, that had little or nothing to lose, and the one thing they were generating consistent revenue on, Java compatibility packs to IBM, BEA, Oracle, and J2ME license on cell phones, is still there, in a dual licensing scheme. And now with the GPL side of things, they get huge mind share, momentum, and thus increasing support and services revenue.

Schwartz is doing the absolute right thing.

Posted by: super_J   Posted on: 03/20/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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