“At first, it seemed like another boring announcement from Sun
Microsystems–the kind that’s big on fluff and low on substance.
Surprisingly, the news turned out to be very significant, and sheds
more light on how Sun plans to market Solaris 10 in the enterprise
space.“In a word: support and volume. Actually, that’s three words,
but in this case, they are tied close enough together for it not to
matter.“The announcement, which officially hit the press on Tuesday, at
first sounded rather innocuous: Sun is changing its pricing
structure for Solaris 10. On its own, this ranks up there with the
local school board minutes. Put in context with recent events,
however, it becomes more of a bombshell…”