"Please see, compared with Red Hat, the server equipped with the company is so high performance and low prices." American IT Business Giants Sun Microsystems President and COO (Chief Operating Officer) Jonathan Schwartz This emphasized. Recently, in the eyes of the president of Schwarz, "enemies" have become a US Red Hat from Microsoft into Linux operating system manufacturers.
Sun has always put Microsoft as the first competitor, former chairman and CEO (CEO) Scott McNealy, has never stopped Microsoft for many years, and even tent anti-monopoly law and infringement patents From the Tribunal. However, in the future, Microsoft decided to pay $ 157 billion to Sun, and two companies reached a historic reconciliation. The two sides also decided to support each other's products and technologies in the future.
Open the most cherished OS source code
The enemy's enemy is a friend. Now the two companies have a common enemy, this is Linux. Actively promoting the US IBM of the Linux operating system with Red Hat in the server. Microsoft faces Linux's offense in the server and personal computer OS field, and the crisis is four, so through the importance of importance through advertising, the company's excellent performance.
For Sun, it has recently been more threats from Linux compared to Microsoft. Since Sun's OS is using UNIX technology, it has good compatibility with Linux. Existing customers have begun to replace low-cost Linux products that make Sun bitter. Sun's sales have also fallen by $ 18.2 billion (July 2000 to June 2000 to June 2000) to 85 million US dollars in 2004 (July 2003 to June 2004), 3 consecutive years Loss. In these three years, the original president and Coo Ed Sand, the original design teacher Bil Joey and other a group of old faces also abandoned the company.
It seems to have a little panic. SUN is made in late September, as this article began to recover the lost land of Linux, the strategic plan taken by Linux. A fate played is the source code of "Solaris" developed by publicly developed. Solaris is a fist product developed from the CPU (Central Argument Processor). In the future, it will strengthen the support of the CPU compatible with Intel products such as "to strong". CPU compatible with Intel products, US semiconductor giant AMD is also producing, so high performance and low price is rapidly promoted.
"Sold 1 DVD player, the manufacturer's profit is only $ 1. It is a software developer who really make money." Schwarz thinks that the benefits of software are better. His idea is: not sticking to the hardware of using their own semiconductor, but also let more hardware support Sun's OS to increase sales.
Take the financial institution market
In order to attract companies using Linux, Sun decided to make the company's OS can also be compatible with Linux. The purpose of this move is that it is desirable to recover the financial institution market with considerable amounts of Linux. At present, the Japanese and Japanese Securities Exchange, which attaches importance to system stability and safety, is actively calling for Sun's products.
On the other hand, in the face of the strong offensive of Sun, the Red Hat has begun to expire the dissatisfaction with Sun. "Zhi Qiao (Jonathan's name) · Schwarz" - Red Hat Company page published a vice president Michael Tivi article on September 23, which made a strict attack on Sun: "The mouth voice represents public code to open source However, it is actually not announced that Java has a wide popular program language, and Sun's words and deeds have the ingredients of deception. "
Despite this, Schwarz also did not retreat, and recently he started criticizing the United States HP's UNIX operating system, and the results were subject to HP's counterattack. With Microsoft, Sun finally achieved profit from 4 to June, but if you want to survive, it is obvious that there is no other way to go. Point the spear head to the original alliance with powerful technical strength, which is inevitable! Source: http://china.nikkeibp.co.jp/
