Sun exec lays out open-source goals, strategy

31.07.2006

What is Sun's overall open-source strategy? This is all a dramatic change for Sun. We are restructuring our product portfolio for the market we think is coming. We're not checking out completely from the old world. We still see customers who still want boxed products. What matters to us is to create volume, and when we create volume, we'll create revenue. We made Unix available for free with OpenSolaris 10. We find that most customers want that service and pay us for it. By giving it away, we have increased the use of Solaris in a large way and have gotten larger revenue for support. We're taking a big risk giving away the free rights to use Solaris Unix.