Jonathan Schwartz spars with Gartner

The debate was hot as to whether Sun Microsystems would be able to show a sustainable profit with the current business model. Suns newly appointed CEO Jonathan Schawarz disputes the claims by Gartner Analysts by claiming that growth of Infrastructure will bring cash inflows to Sun. However I believe Sun’s dependency on infrastructure solutions will increasingly become less viable due to growing competition from other major vendors. Sun should think about generating more revenue from the popularity it already has in the community, the growing usage of Java based applications. Why not compete with Apple iPod, and produce something similar, which is far reaching and more affordable and most importantly more open? But the challenge here is as to how to build a business model to generate revenues while all those above mentioned qualities are being upheld !

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