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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DiViT who wrote (51680)	9/17/2002 12:54:01 PM
From: I Am John Galt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Immediately. I think Sun's biggest problem is that mainstream World doesn't realize they are out there. With StarOffice being proliferated throughout the world(and notice it was to educational institutions... the foundation of tomorrow), a new standard is attempting to be created. And IF StarOffice becomes the standard in Linux, and Linux/Unix/NeXT is indeed the future (I have no doubt that it is), then Sun will have the inside track on future hardware proliferation. In the short term, the obvious thing to say is that with the free giveaway of software, educational institutions may want to buy Sun hardware, and get a low end Sun computer for $999 and have all the software readily available. $999 is a lot cheaper than an equivalent Intel/MSFT solution. In the long term, making themselves a leading software provider for Linux will do nothing but help people equate Sun with Linux. They hopefully will become to Linux what MSFT is to Windows. Sun wants to kill Microsoft Office. It's that simple. Why do you think they'll give StarOffice away AND help develop Open Office?