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Re:What Sun Should Do (by a Sun employee) by Herring on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @08:45PM (#377131)
I wonder if/when it's ever going to occur to them that it's easier to work on improving linux than it is to fight windows, mac AND linux by ... becoming more like linux.

I especially loved this point - "Will buyers accept a certain amount of lock-in, or will they insist on zero barriers to exit?" Sun acts like it still owns the market.

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Re:What Sun Should Do (by a Sun employee) by wmf on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @12:02AM (#377292)
Sun acts like it still owns the market.

And so do all the other cloud providers.

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Re:What Sun Should Do (by a Sun employee) by Herring on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @02:21AM (#377377)
I don't know, google seems easy to get out of. Not that you'd ever want to leave, of course. Mail/calendar/docs/rss can all be exported. Any artificial restrictions I'm missing? App engine yeah, but it's barely up yet.
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