Certainly, Sun has not had it easy over the past few years. The vendor, a darling of the technology sector in the 90s, was hit extremely hard when the dotcom bubble burst. Since then, Sun has been feeling the heat from rivals such as IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) (see Is Sun Setting?).
This seems like an attempt to take back the night by contributing valuable intellectual property, says Kay.
Sun is not the only vendor opening its arms to open source at the moment, with a range of companies, including IBM and Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) (NYSE: CA) opening up their technologies (see IBM Donates to Open Source Community and CA Unveils Open Source Challenge).
But open source is no road to riches. Last year, when NDCF polled data center managers on this topic, just over half said that they were using Linux. But for many businesses, open source will probably coexist with proprietary technologies -- well over 40 percent of the respondents to the NDCF poll predicted an even 50/50 split between Linux and proprietary technologies (see Opening Up the Data Center and NDCF Linux Poll).
Sun was unavailable for comment for this article.
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