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Sun Considered a Disruptive Force in the IT Industry Named a Company That Dares to Innovate
"Disruptive technologies bring to market a very different value proposition than had been available previously." -- Clayton Christensen, Harvard scholar and business expert, "The Innovator’s Dilemma" Baseline, in consultation with market analysts and business leaders, recently released the companies it assessed to be disruptive, meaning that they dare to innovate and displace outmoded business models. Sun Microsystems made the list with its eco-strategy. Three areas were noted in regards to Sun's disruptive technologies: 1) Its newest UltraSPARC processors deliver the industry’s best multi-threading capabilities to date, allowing users to squeeze massive performance from a smaller number of servers. 2) The company’s championing of open-source development and the delivery of tools like Sun’s xVM open-source virtualization software. 3) Sun’s Network.com, which offers high-performance computing capability for a per-hour fee, and aims to eliminate data centers altogether. In summarizing just who Sun is disrupting with its eco-strategy as well as other innovations, Baseline writes: "Sun may be competing with tech big-iron vendors, but at the center of its disruption radar are utility companies, and the power and cooling vendors that feast on today's sweaty, energy-hungry data centers. Vendors that can't deliver business productivity tools both on the desktop and in the cloud are also threatened. The $1 billion purchase of MySQL in late February adds nicely to Sun's open-source portfolio and indicates that the battle is just getting started."
Read Baseline's complete summary of Sun\'s disruptive qualities, and see the complete roster of the companies making this year's list.
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Sun Considered a Disruptive Force in the IT Industry
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