In the good old days, when Sun was making money, they had their guns trained on IBM. These days, there seems to be a tacit acknowledgment in their strategy that they are no longer in the same league as IBM.
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They seem to be aspiring to compete with HP, Dell and *shudder* Gateway. You dont see IBM giving away their AIX operating system for free, do you? And this is despite the fact that AIX soleley exists to exploit IBM hardware (it doesnt run on anything else) and therefore, could legitimately be given away, since IBM's objective is to sell hardware. The bottom line is: yes, its a way to drum up interest in a new product, but they appear to be targetting the lower-end market segment with this gimmick. I'd say that they're probably going the support route with this one. They give away the software and then sell their support contracts kind of like Redhat does.
I've known a couple of people who worked for Sun going on-site to locations to do support and I would assume that they have phone based packages as well. Personally, I have to say that, if I had the spare cash, this might make me want to buy a Sun box.
I love their hardware, having worked on it in labs for several years. It's just that buying the n. You dont see IBM giving away their AIX operating system for free, do you?
No, but then I don't really see IBM selling AIX, except to those people already using it. They seem to be doing everything they can to gut it and put everything that makes it worthwhile in to Linux. They are pushing the Linux brand hard, because Linux is cool at the moment. This could backfire for them, since people will start to wonder why they should by from IBM, rather than some other random Linux vendor. Sun, on the other hand, is trying to position Solaris as a Linux competitor. Technically, it's superior in most regards (driver support being a big exception, but this is not a problem for servers, since they are certified for the OS or not sold). It already has the reputation.
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It has a license that the FSF call Free, although some people have problems with it. At the really high end, systems like OpenVMS and z/OS still rule. Solaris can't compete with these, and neither can Linux. At the bottom end, there is Windows or Linux (or the *BSDs, but even though I use them I realise they are a tiny percentage of the market). Solaris lives in the middle, where the volumes are small and the margins are high.
The bottom is creeping up on the middle though, and so it is important for Sun that they focus on the bottom. Personally, I wouldn't try to compete in the top end. IBM are there, and they are welcome to the market.
SIG used to be there; remember then? There are some people who can't make do with commodity hardware, and there will be for a long time, but this segment grows smaller every year. Sun are focussing on the bottom, because as technology increases, more and more people are adequately served by the bottom. The trick is to have a differentiator.
Sun sell Linux and Windows systems, but they also sell Solaris systems. Now, anyone can sell a Solaris system as cheaply as they can sell a Linux system. Why is this good for Sun? A few reasons: • They can say 'Look at all these other Solaris sellers[1]!
No vendor lock-in here.' • They can say 'Look, Solaris is better than Linux, buy Solaris' • Most importantly, they can say 'sure, you could buy Solaris from those guys, but isn't it more sensible to buy it from us? After all, we wrote it. If you need support, we have people who know the source tree inside out who can quickly track down and fix any bug you find. Just sign here for our platinum support. In blood please.'
The hardware will be cheap. The software will be free. Having someone who can fix whatever problem you might encounter on call will be very expensive, and for a lot of people will be worth every penny. How much does ten minutes of downtime cost you? [1] They already had Fujitsu as a second source, which has helped them a lot. I've wondered about the AIX/ Linux strategy for IBM, because I design systems using p-series machines from IBM. From what I can tell, IBM is making money better than anyone in services, which explains the SUSE Linux as well as Red Hat Linux work that they do.
The top two Linux distros are those, and IBM wants to be your preferred service provider; they will happily settle for backup at a premium. AIX exists, though, because it can utterly exploit power CPUs. What I can have my sysadmin do with a p595 and. Apples and oranges.
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