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Charles Miller speculates on possible side effects of the Sun/MS deal:

Now call me a cynic, but I can't help wondering if the next year will see a less aggressive, more financially responsible Sun cutting back on projects that are unprofitable and that only exist as a weapon against a company they are no longer in pitched battle with. Projects like, say, OpenOffice.org.

That wouldn't surprise me either. They just made a 9% across the board cut; if that doesn't return them to profitability (and I'd bet it doesn't), then killing projects that make no strategic sense is the next logical step. The problem for companies in this situation is determining which projects to keep, because internal politics plays as big (or bigger) a role as anything else - and I say that as someone who's been an internal witness to such nastiness...