I wonder how this will effect Sun?
Hopefully with McNealy out of the way ChrisM & Jeff will start a massive push to get some gaming division properly set up and they’ll drag me over to the States to write games… pop dream on!
http://origin.arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.media/sunstrategy.gif
Cas 
Anyone got any ideas how vthis will effect the GTG?
In my experience, if they say it won’t effect it, it means they will all be made redundant 
Endolf
Nice chart…
Maybe now Scott will have more time to play games with his kids and will want to see more Java developement. Hehe
Honestly, I don’t think this changes Sun much because Schwartz was already running around, running Sun, and surely Scott will still be advising to some degree.
But Wall Street doesn’t like Scott’s style, so the stock price has already climbed %10 on the news…
Some quotes and commentary on Schwartz’s (?) plans…
Actually, it does not effect what we do. Jonathan has been an equal supporer of us and there is no sign of that changing In fact, read what Greg Papadopulous, Sun CTO, has to say about us (from his most recent blog entry):
[i]Everything is Happening at Once
So there must be some failure of physics, or entropy gone wild. But from my perspective at Sun, last week was a watershed moment. The public Sun Grid went live, we delivered the source code for the Ultra SPARC T1 processor (nee Niagara) to opensparc.org, and we unveiled Project Darkstar, a breakthrough in massive multiplayer on-line gaming. In the arrow of time, these are all pointing sharply to the future. The debate, it appears, is not whether, but when, computing is a service. If we are receiving any criticism today about our technology strategy, it’s that we are being too aggressive about our embrace of the future. That’s an enormous change from the barbs of just a few years ago: that we were way too backward looking, holding on to the past computing models. That’s the watershed.[/i]
This industry is growing in importance for Sun, this announcement won’t change that.
-Chris
Nice to know Chris. Thanks for telling.
Even with the warm-fuzzies and the apparent direction, the chart is still a cool graphic. ;D