Ok, this strikes me as weird. After so many years of bashing Microsoft and saying how other companies were foolish to sell Windows, Sun is now planning on reselling Windows. And Linux. And Solaris. Which they open source. And also sell as closed source. I'm not saying this is a bad strategy. Interoperability between Sun and Microsoft is a good objective, but it needs to be real, not just press releases and annou Ok, this strikes me as weird. After so many years of bashing Microsoft and saying how other companies were foolish to sell Windows, Sun is now planning on reselling Windows. And Linux. And Solaris. Which they open source. And also sell as closed source. I’m not saying this is a bad strategy. Interoperability between Sun and Microsoft is a good objective, but it needs to be real, not just press releases and announcements. But this news certainly indicates that things have changed at Sun. Hopefully for better. Sun’s strategy in software has always felt a little confused. They invent great technologies like Java and app servers, but end up with single digit market share. Then they open source it. If they had been more open earlier on I think Sun would be the one with momentum, not Linux, JBOSS, Eclipse and the LAMP stack. Also, I’m not sure the history or culture at either Sun or Microsoft is one of, ah, collaboration and respect. I just don’t see Bob Muglia and Jonathan Schwartz as two guys who are going to go work it out together. Maybe things are better than they used to be. The new servers Sun is turning out are pretty darn good. But if they ever do a remake of the Odd Couple they could do worse than a casting call in Redmond and Santa Clara. Strange bedfellows, indeed. What do you guys think? Is this a good move for Sun? Are you running OpenSolaris? Net Beans? Or whatever their app server is called these days? Open Source