Does the market really want an open source stack from Sun?
Sun's stock has been trading at below $4 a share for a long time based on the assumption that these Sun visions are experiments and not sure bets.
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Analyst Dana Gardner examines IT news and trends that impact software strategists to provide insights and outcomes on SOA, app dev, SaaS, enterprise infrastructure and mobile convergence.
Dana Gardner
Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm.
Latest Posts
All I want for Christmas is a new SOA component model
This impressive standards initiative may well be the first step to establishing a new runtime tier to accommodate SOA.
ClearNova gives AJAX an automation boost
Balance among differing and sometimes highly complex development approaches is the key.
I told them so: Sun and integrated data do mix
Sun finally seems to be finding what I consider a far better open source strategy than their hard-to-figure "opening" of their various market-sluggish commercial products to the CDDL license.
Decision time for reaching true computer security
Good news for military (or financial) controllers who sit at a desk with a half-dozen PCs when one secure one would do.
SuSE and Novell: Personality friction or culture war?
Mantel is not going to be replaced well or easily.
Big Brother or Uncle Sam?
At least the purported insidious code-borne access seems to be in the hands of the "good guys."
Beat off-shore embedded developers by assuming the high-end, says Green Hills CEO
Sun Microsystems, IBM, and HP, are laying off thousands of engineers in the U.S. and replacing them with others in third-world countries.
Full development platform emerges for embedded software lifecycle
The advanced testing features will also be brought to Wind River's recently delivered Linux distribution.
Sun pulls thin client blitz with a Wyse huddle
Calling it thin client does not do it justice, call it uber-client.