[mnehring]

Maybe this will cause Sun to stop making everything open source and start to try to make a profit on their products.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I don’t think they have made everything opensource.

[r9etb]

I think Sun's main problem is that they're trying to occupy a shrinking niche. The Unix workstation is a fine thing ... but it's being squeezed out by increasingly smaller and more affordable mainframes on one side, and by increasingly capable PC-class computers on the other.

In my line of work (satellite operations) my program actually uses Sun workstations for one control system ... but the application would have been much better if it had been hosted on a mainframe. And we use PCs for another control system, with no particular difficulty.

The biggest issue (IMO) is that Sun workstations are really expensive, without the huge leap in capability that would seem to justify the cost.

[Knitebane]

Maybe this will cause Sun to stop making everything open source and start to try to make a profit on their products.

Yeah, because nobody ever made a profit on Open Source!

Red Hat (RHT), a maker of open source software, reported an adjusted third-quarter profit of $48.4 million, or 24 cents per share, on revenue of $165.3 million, which was up 22 percent over the same quarter a year ago.

The problem isn't Sun making things open source, the problem is Sun management not being smart enough to make money.