Comments on: Sun's new mantra: Call us the 'cloud company'

With its official entry into the cloud-computing arena, Sun gets ready to give Amazon and Google a run in what it hopes is a lucrative new market.

[Randys2cents]

A more fitting mantra might be: Call us IBM's latest acquisition.

[simplelifer]

I think it's a bold and smart move.

Hopefully it will be easier to use than Amazon AWS and more flexible, in turns of the choice of programming language and scalability, than Google's AppEngine.

I'll jump on the boat if the pricing and features are right.

[j_d_miller]

Hasn't Sun really been doing cloud computing all along? Their strategy for a long time was that the network was the computer. The problem with that strategy is that people couldn't get work done w/o the network.

Now that the net is nearly ubiquitous then that strategy starts to make sense. That and the devices connected to it are still capable of functioning off-net.

[codynews]

Call us "out of business". I mean seriously, who uses Sun? Don't they just survive on people that had bought them in the past and just keep buying them out of habit?

I work for a server manufacture and while I win some deals and lose some deals, I've never lost against Sun (and it's very rare that they're even bidding).

So who's buying their stuff?

[kwhsy82]

Call us: Mantra of the week. Client-server computing, Java, open-source, etc. etc. etc. Call us late to every party, but glad to rebrand ourselves with that party. Call us irrelevant. Call us for having squandered a huge lead and a true market defining technologies.

[t8]

We are the sun among the clouds.

[nutso101]

I guess web based services are and seem to be growing popular. Send in the clouds!

[MafiaPenguin]

...that looks exactly like my laptop! What model is it??
Inspiron 630m? XPS M140?