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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Stormweaver who wrote (17872)7/14/1999 6:35:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
Didn't they teach you anything at McMaster, Jimmy? Sun is the one providing open solutions, not Microsoft. Open means you aren't forced to conform to whatever one vendor (like Microsoft or Intel) chooses to set as the "standard," and that such things as interfaces and protocols are visible and available to all rather than hidden or protected. Also, there are often independent/multi-vendor/collaborative standards or steering bodies influencing the direction taken by "open" technology; the closest thing Microsoft has is a focus group. The "proprietary iron" is the Wintel stuff. Microsoft has sole control of what it puts into Windows, and Intel has sole control of what it puts into its products. Each has exercised that control for its own benefit rather than for the benefit of its customers, whenever those interests have clashed.

JMHO.
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