Sun Microsystems Inc.’s products are ideal for government, but the company is finding rival Microsoft Corp.’s hold hard to break, said Scott McNealy, Sun’s chairman, president and chief executive officer.
McNealy, in a keynote speech at the FOSE trade show in Washington, D.C., and during a brief press conference, outlined the reasons that agencies should consider Sun’s Unix and Java-based products. For one, he said, there are no Java viruses. “It’s not because there’s not an installed base,” he said. “It’s because nobody’s figured out how to write a Java virus.”
Sun’s products can run on the same Intel Corp. processor systems that Microsoft’s products use, he said, but aren’t limited to Intel. The only strong competitor to Sun’s Java-based Web services is Microsoft’s “welded-shut, single-vendor, Intel-based” .NET offering, said McNealy, who has been one of Microsoft’s most vocal critics for years.
Dendy Young, chairman and CEO at GTSI Corp., joined McNealy for a press conference after the keynote and echoed the Sun message.
“People don’t yet understand the power of the Solaris desktop,” he said. “It’s not yet common enough.”
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October 20th, 2004 at 5:02 pm
It wont ever be common enough. Developers like me dont have time or care to learn the ins and outs of a new OS. As much as we may think they’re nifty, we just dont have time. The reason Linux is going to continue to give Windows trouble, is that newbie developers and programmers can learn with a fairly robust DDMS (mySQL) that can handle a small enterprise. They can learn and make useful software and move into the job market, driving management to the ‘free’ Linux solution.. Management likes the cost, so businesses move to it. If Microsoft was smart, they would give all programmers free versions of their software.. Then you might see some of Linuxes thunder stolen.. Only problem is.. Determining the real programmers..