OpenSolaris: Murdock Speaks on Project Indiana
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| But the project also provides Sun with a new distribution vehicle for its own
| products.
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| "If we're successful," Murdock says, "we'll see a lot of developers using
| OpenSolaris, and that will provide us with a lot of opportunities to sell
| other things."
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http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=21132
Related:
Sun's 'Project Copy Linux' not a Linux copy
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| Murdock also refused to talk about Sun's FISHworks project – billed as a
| NetApp killer.
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| Sun has put some of its top Solaris engineers in charge of a
| software/hardware effort meant to create a solid network attached storage
| (NAS) appliance. The company demoed this project to analysts early this year,
| although it refuses to give reporters the same honor.
|
| We did track down Adam Levanthal, one of the FISHworks leads and co-authors
| of DTrace, at OSCON. He revealed that the product should ship early next year
| and that it includes some special sauce above Solaris for handling storage.
|
| "I'm not going to talk to you about it more than that," he said, rather
| bluntly.
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| Why not just slap us in the face?
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/29/sun_projectindiana_oscon/
Sun CEO: "Proprietary"...did more damage to sun than any market downturn
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| Sun has discovered the exact same thing. Freedom sells. Or, rather,
| services around freedom sell. The freedom itself is, well, free.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/sun_ceo_proprie.html
Q&A: Sun's Top Operating System Brass Talk OS Strategy
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| The one-line answer is that we are making Solaris into a distribution, too.
| And to the extent that you hear that Project Indiana aims to make Solaris
| more like Linux, that actually fundamentally misses the point. It is mostly
| taking the lesson that Linux has brought to the operating system and
| providing that for Solaris as well.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug080207-story01.html
Study: Developers Favor Linux
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| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
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| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766
Debian's Ian Speaks: Gaining Developer Mindshare Is Key
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| "Sun's Linux strategy is not well articulated. People who ask why I'm
| at Sun say, 'I thought Sun was anti-Linux.' That's not true at all.
| Solaris is the operating system of choice, no doubt at all, but there
| is a certain part of the market that wants Linux. Why argue with that?
| We can do a better job of articulating the Solaris strategy," Sun's
| Ian Murdock said.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/56996.html
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