Comments on: Open source puts a shine on Sun's quarter

Sun is finding that open source increasingly pays the bills.

[royrusso]

"Software sales jumped 21 percent year-over-year."

If it's OSS, what exactly are they selling? I guess you could lump in commercial MySQL offerings, but considering they spent $1b on the damn thing, does 21% even matter. All the while, it's a net loss every quarter, under Schwartz.

Sun's in trouble.

[odubtaig]

It's not exactly dissimilar to Sony's posiition in the run-up to the PS3 launch. Losses counted due to large-scale investment, diving share prices, plenty of people prematurely declaring their failure... often the same people who claimed Nintendo's 'Revolution" would be the biggest failure the world had ever seen. There's also all those people who claimed SCO would bury Linux. Oddly, not one of those people have ever brought up the subject again because that would be an admission that they're clueless idiots way out of their league.

If you don't know what they're selling (and companies are paying them large sums) then you need to do some research into what the product is. If you don't know what the product is, how can you possibly say whether it's good /or/ bad for their future? Clearly you don't understand the subject.

Just as you don't understand the concept of short-term high-investment for long-term low-investment.

[pentest]

"If it's OSS, what exactly are they selling?"

Um, open source software.

You can sell it you know.

[royrusso]

"Um, open source software.

You can sell it you know."

Explains their current net loss pattern.

[odubtaig]

No, it really doesn't.