Someone's noticed our Open Source strategy...
Greg Luck has done an insightful writeup of Sun's Open Source Strategy:
For Sun rather than getting a large licensing revenue from a small number of customers, they potentially get a small amount from a large number. They will be getting money from me they never got before.
and:
In summary, I think the totality of what Sun is doing amounts to a revolution. It may touch the lives of many of us. If it does the law of large numbers may see Sun's coffers brimming over with software and services revenue. I am not sure if this is Jonathan Schwartz's doing, but someone at Sun seems finally to have come up with a great software strategy.
Although Greg is primarily discussing our Application Server and Java strategies, it's really heartening to see someone