I am a java professional and emotionally attached to Sun, I will always want SUN to stand and work independently for open Source and not to become a subsi of any other brand. I am ready to contribute as per my capacity to help SUN and SUN should take a initiative through its website to let its user know how we cab help it. This can click.
Its about time someone put Sun out of its misery. Its been on the death bed for the last 8 years. It time for Sun to set. IBM is probably singing a famous song: Here comes the Sun.....
"The Network is the Computer" has gone, & "Network" is being replaced with Cloud now.
While its shocking news for some Sun Professionals (In India, compared with IBM/HP Certifications, Sun Solaris Certified guys are more...) - who are sentimentally attached since many of Unix Career is starting with Solaris Environment now-a-days, they should be prepared for any Unix Environment.
Few Questions... 1. What will happen to Solaris? Last 10 years, solaris has struggled from 2.6,7,8,9 and finally Solaris 10 & now opensolaris, while in RISC market IBM's AIX & HP-UX there are no major OS upgrades, Hope IBM should not kill Solaris promoting AIX like HP has killed "Digital-Unix"(Tru64) from compaq & served HP-UX inplace.
2. What will happen to Java? Nothing, as IBM already has done much more....
3. What will happen to Sun Hardware? Which RISC Platform will be adapted? Answer is same for Solaris.
Its unfortunate of a legendary & innovative company like SUN going bust due to recessionary implications. The following will be reason:
1. Failed effort to enter into x86 business. HP & Dell has substantial market share. Pricing issue. 2. Software business not healthy despite lot of innovative initiaves. 3. RISC market shrinking.SUN loosing market share to IBM & HP ( Intel Itanium). 4. Storage business never independently picked up. Most of the storage deals were also server deals. 5. Focus on services is substantially lower than IBM ( market leader with IBM GS) or HP ( having acquired EDS).
Maybe the only silver lining is Solaris operating system which had been open sourced a few years ago. But Linux competition is always persistant.