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Re: Unbiased Opinion and the Future of Sun Micro
Posted by: Paul Murphy 2003-10-09 14:47:39

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On most workday mornings, my e-mail contains a newsletter promising "unbiased opinion" -- an editorial oxymoron whose intent is probably to deny the presence of commercial advocacy. We tend to think of bias as necessarily negative, but in fact a bias is just a predisposition to believe or disbelieve new information about someone or something. Positive bias is rarely recognized. If something we read is consistent with our own beliefs, we don't typically see it as biased, even if those who hold contrary opinions do.

Re: Unbiased Opinion and the Future of Sun Micro
Posted by: tungtung 2003-10-09 15:05:12 In reply to: Paul Murphy

Interesting article Paul. I wouldn't go so far as to say "Sun is dying" or "Sun is dead," but I don't think their future looks rosy either. They're clearly in a certain amount of trouble. When Schwartz talked about how Linux is only a desktop OS, and they didn't have a Linux strategy, he did sound thoroughly arrogant and clueless.
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I think Sun's got at least couple years left to find some better answers than "We don't have a Linux strategy," but if they're still talking like that in 2006, they'll be in serious trouble.