CNET News: What Was Sun Thinking?

“Sun claims that 35 percent of the archived data on the planet
is housed on StorageTek equipment. Throw in the some-odd 1,000 new
sales representatives coming along with the deal and you’ve got the
makings of quite a large enterprise storage company with deep data
center expertise.

“Maybe that’s a wise gambit. There’s not much upside in being
known as a software company that gives away the code of its
products for free. Critics say Sun’s open-source moves seem like
more of a come-on to get customers off its back than any real sales
driver…”

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