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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (51703)	9/18/2002 2:12:52 PM
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Can you name an application software product that has been successful for sunw? Java. Success in that case wasn't defined as direct revenue, it was defined as making holes in the MSFT/Wintel monopoly so that Sun hardware platforms remained relevant. It's an unhappy position to be in, but that's what it was. SunSoft was supposed to find new sources of revenue from software products that were not directly related to or bundled with Sun hardware. Solaris x86, for example, was created with and by SunSoft. Like the other Sun "planets" of the early 90's, SunSoft was a failed experiment, which is why they were folded back in 96 or 97. It's sad to say that even with Java, which actually reflects Sun's distributed computing vision of the mid '90's and was vastly superior to anything in MSFT's bag of tricks when it first came out, Sun's application-level software strategy has always been mainly defensive, never aggressive. They're just not big enough to pull something like that off. Same with this software giveaway. It's not in left field. It's just a defensive tactic, not a strategy. And they have been partnering with Oracle, for years. But it has never been an exclusive partnership. --QS