p2pnet.net News:- Soon, hardare won’t cost anything - as long as you subscribe to bundled software and multi-year services offerings, says Sun Systems’ new president and ceo Jonathan Schwartz.

“In our world, you will subscribe to the software and the hardware is free,” he’s quoted as saying in a Reuters story here. “Directionally, our expectation is that in fiscal 2005 you’re going to see a rapid departure from selling hardware, software and services apart.”

Nor, the Reuters report goes on, is Schwartz alone, pointing out that Microsoft’s Bill Gates has said he believes that, within a few years, hardware will be free and will be bought on a subscription basis, rather than as a one-time purchase that must be upgraded routinely.

“Bill Gates and I agree that within four to five years hardware will be free,” Schwartz told Reuters, who was to outline Sun’s belief at a Sun conference in Shanghai that the network - the hardware, software, storage and its interlinks - is fast becoming a commodity.

On its web page here, Sun introduces more than 30 innovations inlcuding “the industry’s only self-healing, self-managing OS file system, Dynamic File System”.

It also mentions:

• 16 new Sun Reference Architectures;
• Netra 440 server, the industry’s lowest-priced, ruggedized four-way UltraSPARC server running 64-bit Solaris;
• Java Enterprise System2004Q2 with a per-citizen pricing model for federal, state and local governments;
• Sun Java RFID Software and Sun Java Desktop System Release 2.

“Sun has also introduced new subscription and utility-based computing models that make flexible computing a reality,” it states.

“The new subscription-based Sun Preventive Services offers customers more than 100 services that reduce cost and increase service levels in the data center. Sun StorEdge Utility Computing is a utility computing model for highly scalable and available ‘pay for use’ storage.

“The Java Enterprise Developer Promotion offers Sun Developer Network program members Sun’s Java Development tolls, running on the Solaris OS and bundled on Sun’s latest entry-level Opteron-based server, the Sun Fire V20z.”

Today, “In an interesting move clearly aimed at expanding their market share in the developing world, Sun Microsystems have today announced a new pricing model for their Java Enterprise System for users in developing nations,” says an itVibe story here, going on:

“The new pricing ranges from a mere 33 US cents per citizen per year, up to a larger but still incredibly low USD 1.95 per citizen per year. Prices are presumably based on licenses being bought for everyone in the country.

“The exact price per country is worked out using two factors, the first being the number of citizens in the country, and the second being the stage of development of the country as defined by the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs classification.”

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