Rebirth
Q&A:
Jonathan Schwartz on Sun's open-source business strategy: "After
spending an hour prodding Jonathan with questions about Sun's history
and future with open source, I was left with one clear impression: Sun
is rising, and open source is the driver behind its rebirth." -- Matt
Asay
Cool. If that's the impression Matt takes away than that means Sun is much more focused these days. Matt's comments also demonstrate the value of allowing impressions to naturally follow actions rather than artificially trying to force impressions using messages up front. In our case the last few years, we said we'd open a bunch of code and then we went out and opened the three core products of the company -- Solaris, SPARC, and Java. That's a lot of code. And that's on top of all the other open engineering projects Sun started previously. So, the message resonates because we did what we said we'd do, and the conversations documenting everything are widely distributed among large numbers of people in the community. Simple formula, really. But that's why it works so well. It's genuine.
Cool. If that's the impression Matt takes away than that means Sun is much more focused these days. Matt's comments also demonstrate the value of allowing impressions to naturally follow actions rather than artificially trying to force impressions using messages up front. In our case the last few years, we said we'd open a bunch of code and then we went out and opened the three core products of the company -- Solaris, SPARC, and Java. That's a lot of code. And that's on top of all the other open engineering projects Sun started previously. So, the message resonates because we did what we said we'd do, and the conversations documenting everything are widely distributed among large numbers of people in the community. Simple formula, really. But that's why it works so well. It's genuine.
