Sun : Open source Java due in late '06, '07

23.10.2006

Green: Well, of course. And the thing that people have to get their head around is that the software business is a complicated ecosystem of software, the product, licenses, indemnification, service, support, professional services and training. And when you look at the transition that the software business is going through, it's moving from the monetization of the software artifact itself to use the software as a catalyst for all of these other businesses that I just cited. And Sun, more than any other open source company, is better positioned to provide services, professional services, training and support, legal indemnification of all of the technology, rapid turnaround of bugs and issues with customers, more than any other company, and those are highly valued services. And so the business model moves from the bits to all of the stuff around the bits, and I think we're best positioned in the industry to monetize that.