The era of big software is over
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| "With open source, there's a component utilization
| model which engineers and organizations are embarking
| on," he says. Companies are evaluating upgrades of big
| programs far more closely as a result.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1105
CEO: Sun's open-source software will help sell blades
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| In particular, OpenOffice is seeing strong adoption in overseas
| markets, Schwartz said. He contended that as students leave
| college and enter the workforce with OpenOffice experience,
| they will influence the adoption of the open-source
| applications as well as open document formats in corporate environments.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;410579127;fp;2;fpid;1
Still a Linux wannabe, even with Blades...
Sun Doubles Capacity in New Blade Server Line
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/57738.html
Yesterday:
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| Liffe is in the process of replacing its 1,500 Sun Solaris servers
| with Hewlett-Packard servers running on Linux and Intel processors.
| A key part of the switch, which is aimed at providing greater
| scalability, involves swapping the gateway servers used by
| customers to link to the Connect platform.
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http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/News/36cfed61-1810-4162-8a31-31c0848274c0.html
Related:
Sun Micro introduces more flexible blade servers
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| The blade servers, collectively known as the Sun Blade 6000 Modular
| System, can be linked together using any combination of UltraSPARC
| chips, Intel's Xeon processor or Opteron. They will also run
| Solaris, Microsoft Windows operating system and the freely
| available Linux operating system.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070606:MTFH86476_2007-06-06_15-39-46_N06382923&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/yrbuhs
Sun, Ubuntu maker certifying Linux on x86 servers
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| Sun Microsystems and Canonical have nearly completed work to certify
| that the Ubuntu version of Linux runs smoothly on Sun's x86 servers,
| sources familiar with the situation said.
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http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-6132211.html?part=rss&tag=6132211&subj=news
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
Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)
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| Here's the project proposal that should have been out a long while back
| (apologies, I'm happy to take the blame on this one). Before anyone gets
| too caught up in how little the proposal actually covers, I intend to
| follow up with my thoughts if and when the project alias gets created - I'd
| like that discussion to be far more focused than opensolaris-discuss has
| been.
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https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=31802&tstart=0
OpenSolaris fans in a tizzy over 'Project Copy Linux'
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| Sun Microsystems has moved one mailing list posting closer to explaining
| how it plans to mimic the Linux distribution model with OpenSolaris.
|
| [...]
|
| The Solaris vendor spent the early part of this century mocking Linux.
| Next, it forced then CEO Scott McNealy to don a penguin suit and waddle
| around in front of analysts, extolling the virtues of Sun's own flavor
| of Linux. Then, Sun scrapped its own Linux in favor of selling Red Hat,
| while also mocking Red Hat.
|
| Now we find Sun trying to imitate part of the development model pushed
| by Canonical and Red Hat. Even though Sun likes to hold tight control
| over the Solaris proper releases, you can imagine the vendor picking
| up valuable bits and pieces created by the OpenSolaris developer
| community, just like the Linux vendors do with the work produced by
| their developer armies.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/31/sun_project_indiana/
"Save a Penguin, Unplug a Linux Server" May Win Most-Flamable E-Mail Award
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| I just got an e-mail from Sun which is probably the largest violation
| of L. Ron Hubbard's Survey tech that I've ever seen. It was an e-mail
| with the title of, "Save a Penguin - Unplug a Linux Server Today".
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http://jetteroheller.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/save-a-penguin-unplug-a-linux-server-may-win-most-flamable-e-mail-award/
What I Learned From Ubuntu
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| So, to sum it all up: I learned that distros can successfully deal
| with issues that OpenSolaris and Sun are facing, like how to provide
| the many third-party packages that users want, and how to keep them
| current. What we need to do now is figure out how to make it work
| for OpenSolaris, without sacrificing the stability that attracted
| many Solaris users in the first place.
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http://blogs.sun.com/kupfer/entry/what_i_learned_from_ubuntu
I tried to dirty my hands on OpenSolaris Belenix 0.6
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| This reminds me of my initial days with Linux - about 8-10 years ago -
| when we were forced to configure each and every aspect of Linux
| configuration to simply work out things. Today, most Linux distribution
| do not require any advanced tweaking during their initial installation
| - most things work out-of-the-box and distributions like Xandros have
| simple, 4 click install options.
|
| It looks like OpenSolaris needs to travel a real long way, and journey
| has just begun.
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http://raviratlami1.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-tried-to-dirty-my-hands-on.html
Checking out Nexenta GNU/OpenSolaris
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| I guess the appeal of Nexenta is... hmmm... I'm not really sure. It's
| running GNOME. It's brown. Looks an awful lot like Ubuntu. It's not
| using all GNU tools. Heck, it's not even using BSD tools. I mean,
| really, "ps ax" works on my mac and on my linux boxen. Does it work
| here? Nope. Gives me usage. The man page lies too.
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http://linsec.ca/blog/index.php?/archives/129-Checking-out-Nexenta-GNUOpenSolaris.html
Solaris can never be Linux
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| Things haven't changed much at Sun. When Sun launched its
| OpenSolaris project in 2005 it used the Common Development and
| Distribution Licence - which is incompatible withb the GPL - and
| some system code was not released.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12116/1090/
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