Brandon Werner

If anyone needs any more examples of how behind Microsoft is in its core businesses take a look at this photo from TechEd Europe 2005. It would seem that although it’s a Microsoft keynote (TechEd), they are running the software and examples on Sun hardware. Nice photograph of the dynamics behind Web 2.0 and the new bubble that is forming. Jonathan Schwartz highlights this by stating that Sun might be the “dot in Web 2.0″ as well. The metrics he points to from James Governor’s Blog entry entitled Sun: putting the dot in web 2.0 says it all:

“I noticed an item from news.com today that made me think about Sun and its future: eBay to buy hundreds of Sun x86 servers. It turns out PayPal is also evaluating Sun’s new T1 Ultasparc line. The eBay story follows news that Google is going to buy some of the new elegant Sun kit too… You know Sun has got to be talking to MSN - and Sun is now a Windows poster child.”

I’m running Solaris x86 on all of my boxes here and at the startup. I wouldn’t run Linux again. I’ve had some of the stability and robustness sugar, and I can’t go back anytime soon to rpms, library conflicts, horrible documentation and other headaches. I think Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris are the biggest unwritten stories of 2005. Then again, it’ll appear in full force in 2006 and people will wonder where it came from.

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