“At Sun Microsystems’ first European user conference, the
inescapable issue for CEO Scott McNealy in meetings with customers
and the media was Sun’s financial situation and future
prospects…“One recent big win for Sun was its deal for a half-million
Linux desktops with the Chinese government-backed China Standard
Software consortium. The agreement could run into a significant
number of licenses for Sun’s Java Desktop System.“McNealy expanded on comments Wednesday that Sun won’t actually
make much money on the deal: ‘We’re going to make money on Java
Desktop. We’re not doing this for charity. Imagine if China had
adopted Windows. Whose servers would they have used? We’ll go in
and sell servers, storage, Java Enterprise System, services and
financing…'”