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

23.10.2006

IW: This is probably totally out of your area. Do you see Sun moving away from SPARC at all, to totally an Intel, AMD-based hardware platform?

Green: No, I think what we've expressed in the industry is it's not moving, it's adding. We're really pleased with the growth of our Niagara-based systems, and I think you'll see announcements about higher power Niagara offerings coming in the near future, and I'd suggest you go talk to John Fowler about that. But in addition, with Andy [Bechtolsheim] working on the Galaxy technology with AMD, we now have two microprocessor platforms that are serving Sun really well, both of which we've optimized Solaris 10 to run on. And so Solaris 10 on either of these platforms is where we're placing our energy.

IW: Any other major points you wanted to bring up?

Green: Well, I just want to reiterate, Sun is focused on success and really pleased with the acceleration of success of Solaris 10. This was a breakthrough offering of Solaris when we offered it more than a year ago, and moving with that level of indemnified high technology to an open source program in the industry has really been a breakthrough in the industry, and we're going to continue to put a lot of our energy around Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris.

IW: Do you think Sun can still make money on software in an open source arena?