Layoffs at Sun

Well Sun Microsystems has finally gone the way of the stock valuation courtesan. In an effort of "free up" cash they ahave gone and laid off duplicated roles and so forth. while they were very reclusive in their staemetns i imagine with that many layoffs amany that could have been re-deployed were simply cast out. Unfortunate as R&D is vital to Sun. By re-intoducing open source they have opened a floodgate of opportunity for participation however I have to disagree with the idea that Solaris should not splinter into factions like Linux. In a true free market innovation and survival depend on competition. Without it Solaris may never evolve to reach its full potential. While itr makes standardization a bit of a nightmare as it has in the Linux realm the fact remains that more options are better for feedback as to what consumers want and the availabilty of choices. If th eoption to change things is present th erest will follow. MSN is rummored to be looking at buying eBay. Gee, wonder why? One of Suns biggest customers. Wow what won't they spend money on to ensure dominace, Oh yes, improvements and new products! I almost forgot. IN aquiring eBay they could easily remove the servers and the Java based technology which would set Sun Microsystems back about a decade. Microsoft finally realizes its mistake. THey have pissed off the consumer by ignoring them and not producing anything of substance in decades. The time for desktop Linux has arrived and through collaboration and partnerships the end of Microsoft dominace is drawing near. Microsoft is running scared already. Without a decent hardware vendor they may as well dump everything they have into R&D to make a platform consumers will have to obey rather than hope they don't reformat to Linux or try Solaris only to realize how much they overpaid in teh past and how much they had missed. Linspires move to openource CNR is huge news. If every Linux starts to do that then they can focus more on the OS and worry less about people not having apps to run or having it be too dificult to install things and give Linux a real chance.