The Power Of The Ecosystem In IT World

Jonathan Schwartz writes, Sun is seeing more and more momentum behind what it sees as the ecosystem of strategic communitites, driving Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice/StarOffice, NetBeans, the Java community and the OpenSolaris/Solaris community. All, interestingly, appear to be accelerating and Sun is saying that its in lfeeling pretty positive about the revenue equations, too in large deals (We shall wait for the numbers to be announced)
Jonathan adds, the NetBeans community has pretty much caught up - and is on a path to keep up the momentum. If it wasn't obvious, blogs (coupled with extraordinary innovation) are playing a central role in driving community awareness and adoption - of all these platforms. Blogs put a human, and real-time, face on communities, their participants and community evolution.
On the launch of Sun-Ebay community initiative,Jonathan outlines that you can compete against a product, but it's close to impossible to compete against a community. It's no coincidence that as we enter our most aggressive product cycle ever, an understanding of ecology, ecosystems and community development will once again be at the core of our strategyActually brilliant words, letting aside the context in which it is said - Sun despite all its difficulties - is showing certain vibrancy in trying out new things - we have to wait and see how future rewards the company.