The Heavy Reading survey comes just as Sun might be strengthening its partnership with Veritas Software Corp. (Nasdaq: VRTS), which develops SAN software and had the best results in the survey (see A Moment of Veritas). According to financial analysts with RBC Capital Markets, Sun will soon announce it has re-signed its reseller agreement with Veritas and will extend it to the upcoming 64-bit Sun Fire systems. The Sun/Veritas relationship has been a bit rocky, operating on a month-to-month basis, sources say. So far, neither company has announced any new developments.
Whats it all mean for Sun? Before it can rise to take advantage of a market most analysts expect to grow significantly in the near future, Sun has a lot more work to do to win over customers than most of its major competitors -- and even more work than a few of the little guys.
Sun declined to comment for this article.
Dave Raffo, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch
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