It may be a sign of desperation. Sun today announced it is putting its JES out for free, along with free developer's tools, and N1 management software. Now the complete stack of SUN's software is free and open (sort of).
Clearly, SUN knows it can't remain proprietary and stay viable. So in it last attempt for survival, it offers everything for free, hoping it can become a Redhat for the Unix world. This may not be a bad strategy. Unix has a much larger installed base than Linux. If Sun succeeds in solidifying its position in this segment, it should be worth a lot more than Redhat, which is currently valued over $4B. Sun's market value is about $13B. Sun also has the hardware business that is getting increasingly interesting. The new Galaxy servers seem to signal that Sun is really serious about x86.
Last year, if you ask, I would say Sun was definitely going down the westhill. Now it appears that after all, it might not go down that quickly. We shall see.
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