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I don't think they lost any Solaris sales...since it was losing its lunch to Linux. Customers wanted open-source, and open-sourcing Solaris has helped not only retain the customer base, but attract new interest. Free is the best way to get someone to try your product...and if it's quality, they keep it.

I also hope you're wrong about the cuts being Solaris staff. But I don't think that's it. I actually am wondering about how much longer they'll stay with the Ultra-Sparc rather than going fully Opteron, etc. Designing and producing your own chip is an exorbitant cost to bear when it's not really delivering you any competitive advantage over commodity chips.
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Is SUN management running the company or Wall Street  zzz1234567890 | 05/31/06
hmm  hopefulcoder | 05/31/06
Oh please.  HypnoToad | 05/31/06
actually...  doctormoriarty | 05/31/06
Actually Sun is not a Open Source friend  OhMyGosh | 05/31/06
Jonathan Schwartz is pretty smart, he will do what is best for SUN.  DonnieBoy | 05/31/06
telling yourself lies aint the answer  zzz1234567890 | 05/31/06
I think it was pretty obvious to all that jobs needed to be cut.  DonnieBoy | 05/31/06
Donnie, why the defense of layoffs?  Anton Philidor | 06/01/06
Sun and chip development?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/01/06
How do you know if Jonathan Schwartz...  John Zern | 06/02/06
And adding just as many in India:  HypnoToad | 05/31/06
Sun needs to compete in India, this is about educating Indians on SUN  DonnieBoy | 05/31/06
Education - Easy  TonyMcS | 06/01/06
140 applications for a helpdesk job is a labor shortage?  johnsmith222 | 05/31/06
Not just the current Admin...  techboy_z | 06/01/06
I blame Java.  savatar | 05/31/06
You've been blinded...  techboy_z | 06/01/06
If Solaris were still linked to Sun hardware...  Anton Philidor | 06/01/06
Hmmm...  techboy_z | 06/01/06
I blame Sun for Java (NT)  TonyMcS | 06/01/06
Sun, what else would I expect  Boot_Agnostic | 06/01/06
The entire tech sector remains soft  WiredGuy | 06/01/06
Soooo wrong.  techboy_z | 06/01/06
lol  ka0sinc | 06/01/06
Here you go...  techboy_z | 06/01/06
lol par deux  ka0sinc | 06/01/06
Sigh...  techboy_z | 06/02/06
Chuckle  ka0sinc | 06/02/06
Now, this is just my opinion  Boot_Agnostic | 06/03/06
I just gotta...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/01/06
Yes, that's the Sun business plan.  Anton Philidor | 06/01/06
Where Sun really missed...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/01/06
More directly...  Anton Philidor | 06/01/06
Let me walk you through it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/02/06
Must have IE also  Roger Ramjet | 06/01/06
You make a good point...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/02/06
But if you worked at Sun, you could be home now!  B.O.F.H. | 06/01/06
Who will be Wall Street's victims?  Anton Philidor | 06/01/06
A Win-Win situation for everyone...  Paco20 | 06/01/06
This always looks bad  not of this world | 06/01/06
Where's Murphy  TonyMcS | 06/01/06
Employees need to look around at the H1-Bs  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/02/06
They can always send work off shore.  B.O.F.H. | 06/03/06
true, and American customers can say no thanks.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/04/06
esra sdrawkcab  mist42nz | 06/08/06

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