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Remember when StarOffice was free? Once they hook users, the plan is to start charging again. Sure, this version is free... what about the next version? And the version after that? It's classic "give it away below cost until we drive the competition out of business" strategy "then we can charge anything we want and they'll have to pay it and we make up for all our losses".

Sun is headed for the long, slow funeral procession to it's own death - that's been obvious for a long time now. It won't be today, it won't be tommorrow, but someday... unless they figure out how to make money again.

Oh and charge for bug fixes? That's real nice. "Gee, we screwed up and YOU have to pay for it".

Charge for support? Yes. That's how to make money.

Charge to fix lousy code? No. That's how to alienate people.
Posted by: Unix Guru   Posted on: 11/16/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Good for existing Solaris users  alterego_z | 11/15/04
Doesn't a lot depend upon IP issues.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/15/04
Yeah..  Jeff Spicoli | 11/15/04
Actually I meant GM.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/15/04
Guess they'll lose out on the next revolution then..  Jeff Spicoli | 11/15/04
Sun is unreliable and Solaris is a pig  balsover | 11/15/04
Solaris 10 x86 is reliable, faster and secure OS  rahshaw | 11/15/04
You really need to look at Solaris 10  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/15/04
Perhaps I will look, however...  balsover | 11/15/04
We do agree on that...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/15/04
but going back to linux  hipparchus2000 | 11/16/04
I agree.  doe_z | 11/15/04
Nope. Won't work.  dfowensby | 11/15/04
Won't work --- since when ?  sw-mobboy | 11/15/04
How??  Freebro | 11/19/04
Bold Move  Centered | 11/15/04
What Sun needs to do to be trusted  gardoglee | 11/15/04
Sounds like IBM and AIX....  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/15/04
Notice their Aiming at Red Hat  htotten | 11/15/04
They are the largest target.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/15/04
Concrete target  vaxinator | 11/15/04
Who Cares?  CodeBubba | 11/15/04
*shrug*  linuxoverwindows | 11/15/04
For you...  PA-ITGuy | 11/16/04
but maybe it would  hipparchus2000 | 11/16/04
The sales pitch  PA-ITGuy | 11/16/04
"Free" is first sign of defeat !!  Prognosticator | 11/16/04
Remember when...  Unix Guru | 11/16/04
Its called "Business"  Roger Ramjet | 11/16/04
The new software business model - services  hipparchus2000 | 11/16/04
Debian?  Roger Ramjet | 11/17/04
Solaris 10 x86 is reliable, faster and secure OS  rahshaw | 11/17/04
Dual boot?  Roger Ramjet | 11/17/04
What's is going to be called?  mbaldwin@... | 11/17/04

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