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eWeek: Sun’s McNealy Plugs Service Model, Open Solaris

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“In an exclusive interview with eWEEK.com at the Gartner
Symposium and ITxpo here, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy talked
about Sun’s new service business model, the open-sourcing of
Solaris, and Sun’s acrimonious partnership with Red Hat.

“Talking about Sun Microsystems’ push for its customers to move
to a subscription-service model, McNealy said, ‘People are still
locked into proprietary systems and don’t want to make a
jump…”

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