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dyanismith · 08:21 AM

I wholeheartedly agree!!! This will just change the game completely. And not only that, Apple/Sun will now have a true end-to-end solution for IT, spanning from the desktop to the server and the systems that run it.

As Walt Mossberg stated in his recent column, "end-to-end" seems to be the way to go in the Post-PC era.

It will just catapult Apple right smack dab in the middle of corporate boardroom.

The key thing is the two companies should remain largely independent subsidiaries as javester suggests. Solaris will keep its OS and hardware and position it solely for the datacenter, the same way Apple should keep OS X and its hardware largely untouched.

The two should just collaborate on creating a transparent, SOA-based interface (remember Network is the Computer?), strengthen Java on OS X even further, and perhaps, jazz up OpenOffice/StarOffice a bit.

And to top it off, the coup-de-grace would be to finally open-source Java. It would just make it unstoppable.

What about the Java licensing revenue? So what, it could be just another loss leader for all the fancy-schmancy Apple/Sun hardware that has the best Java environment.

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dyanismith Junior Member Status: Offline Posts: 26 Join Date: Apr 2006	05-11-2006, 07:37 AM I wholeheartedly agree!!! This will just change the game completely. And not only that, Apple/Sun will now have a true end-to-end solution for IT, spanning from the desktop to the server and the systems that run it. As Walt Mossberg stated in his recent column, "end-to-end" seems to be the way to go in the Post-PC era. It will just catapult Apple right smack dab in the middle of corporate boardroom. The key thing is the two companies should remain largely independent subsidiaries as javester suggests. Solaris will keep its OS and hardware and position it solely for the datacenter, the same way Apple should keep OS X and its hardware largely untouched. The two should just collaborate on creating a transparent, SOA-based interface (remember Network is the Computer?), strengthen Java on OS X even further, and perhaps, jazz up OpenOffice/StarOffice a bit. And to top it off, the coup-de-grace would be to finally open-source Java. It would just make it unstoppable. What about the Java licensing revenue? So what, it could be just another loss leader for all the fancy-schmancy Apple/Sun hardware that has the best Java environment. Last edited by dyanismith : 05-11-2006 at 08:21 AM.