On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:58:01AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:57:41AM -0600, Michael Chaney wrote: > > As for Java, they're making money from it. IBM makes more money selling > > services around it, but the bottom line is that Sun doesn't understand > > the services business. GPL'ing a program, regardless of what people > > say, immediately ends the profit potential for that piece of software. > > Sun knows this, and they still want to make money from Java. > > Maybe they should start make money from selling *Java services* just as > IBM is doing, and provide Java under an open license instead. Being the > creator and initial developer of a technology gives them an immediate > edge in that market methinks.
Not really. The problem is that IBM has a huge lead over Sun in that area, and IBM understands services. Read what I said above: "the bottom line is that Sun doesn't understand the services business." They don't understand it, otherwise they'd be doing it. Old dog, new trick. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
