Sun targets developers with expanded open-source effort

05.12.2005

Software with high costs and closed source code are more difficult to distribute, said James Governor, an analyst at RedMonk in Denver. Products with low barriers of entry, such as open-source, "have fewer obstacles between them and developers."

Tony Baer, principal at onStrategies in New York, added that Sun had little to lose in making the move, given its limited success in selling middleware technologies.