mike_barton
Editor

Talkback: Time for Sun to get real?

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May 1, 20061 min

In Sun’s Schwartz still doesn’t get Linux, Neil McAllister writes of Schwartz’s comment, “We will be one of the consolidators of the open source industry … as well as, certainly, in the open source operating system industry.”

Consolidators? Can he be serious? The sooner Sun recognizes that — and recognizes where its real competition is coming from — the sooner it can give up schoolyard games like “King of Open Source” and concentrate on becoming a real contender once more.

Time for Sun to get real? Talk back to us below.

mike_barton

Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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