Andrew MacNeill - AKSEL Solutions

Craig Bailey posted this link on Twitter regarding Sun's lacklustre performance last quarter - Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: Our Q3 Choice quotes: " Why don't you just stop giving your software away? Because we prioritize developer adoption. Let me give an example....the MySQL team had scored a design win - ahead of the proprietary competition. What should we have charged them beforehand? No matter what it was, they wouldn't have used the product - startups and developers don't pay for software...We didn't pay them, the MySQL team earned their adoption." "Why does Sun's CEO waste time writing that blog? Because I believe in providing clarity surrounding our strategy and operations - not just once a year in the Annual Report. I believe clarity behind our direction is useful for our shareholders, customers, partners and employees." It's a great post, full of honesty (as far as I can tell) about what's going on at Sun and it contrasts...