>Sun going up then Sun going down<
Starbase products will help accelerate e-commerce website development for the e-business software and the computer hardware for companies like SUNW ORCL IBM HP Hewlett-Packard.
SUNW ORCL IBM have begun to integrate their business with Linux / Open Source initiatives. IBM ports their popular DB2 database to linux. IBM uses Apache in their AS400 server platform. Oracle released Oracle 8 on linux. HP is customer of SBAS and I believe has a web-hosting project underway with OpenAvenue.
Sun Microsystems has provided support for open source development over the years. Donating resources and hardware for two significant open source developments, *SPARC port of linux* and *John Ousterhouts Tcl scripting language*. I believe SUNW grew up in Berkley, California one of the intellectual mecas for open source development in the 1970's and 1980's
SUNW makes the majority of their revenues from training, servicing and consulting services for their operating system and computer hardware. SUNW logical involvement with linux open source would occur in lower-end machines making SUNW compatible with the linux operating systems. SUNW would then now need the technical staffing resources for training, servicing and consulting services for this linux based computer hardware.
OpenAvenue could provide these services for SUNW or HP as Linuxcare provides these services for IBM and DEll
In the future SUNW may decide to offer software support for SUNW supplied linux systems. Using Linux / Open Source SUNW could customize and load the software, sell the hardware. Customizing a computer system for the specific needs of a client. Every business wants control over their software and every business has individual computing systems needs. Open Source easily adapts to provide individualized needs of business enterprise.
OBJS, ObjectShare, Inc. develops, markets and supports fully object-oriented development software for the client/ server market. Company also provides support, training, and consulting services.
StarTeam SBAS flagship product supports best of the breed software development and custom e-commerce portals for enterprise. The combination of Starbase, Objectshare and OpenAvenue are not limited to one OS , compatible with Windows , NT Unix, Java and Linux in 3/2000. OpenAvenue plans to develop revenues from 1. software consulting services, 2. technical support services, 3. Internet business development, 4. online recruiting, application development services and 5. e-commerce through OpenAvenue portals.
In 2000 and beyond as more and more business applications move to the world wide web, businesses will discover that e- business computing system in 2000 require not only computer hardware and consulting services previously provided by companies like SUNW HP IBM, but also include a host of customized software development services, application and integration services, e-commerce facilitation and annual service and maintenance of these complex 2000 and beyond computing systems.
IBM and Dell use a private company called Linuxcare for these Open Source services. LINUXCARE another 2000 IPO to watch for.
IMHO Starbase/OpenAvenue/Objectshare would be a *short step* for a company like Sun Microsystems or Hewlett-Packard.
reference *Kaufman Brothers research report* dated 1/03/2000 and the O'Reilly book *Open Sources, Voices from the Open Source Revolution* |
