__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Tuesday 01 May 2007 01:55 \__
> __/ [ BearItAll ] on Monday 30 April 2007 16:11 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Sun Mulls Deeper Open-Source Dive
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | It has been five years since Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott
>>> | McNealy donned a penguin suit at a San Francisco conferenceto
>>> | demonstrate Sun's détente with Linux. Rather than dis the
>>> | open-source operating system as an inferior competitor, Sun
>>> | would sell it, albeit in select corners of the market.
>>> |
>>> | [...]
>>> |
>>> | Now, amid falling sales of its bread-and-butter servers and mounting
>>> | pressure on Schwartz to cut more jobs and boost a stock price that's
>>> | dropped more than 22%, to $5.26, since early February, Sun is
>>> | considering its most radical open-source move yet: releasing Solaris
>>> | under the love-it-or-hate-it GPL.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
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>
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070430_095211.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech
>>> http://tinyurl.com/yudo53
>>>
>>
>> I hope they do and I am sure it would be good for Sun. Solaris is a first
>> class product. Many an IT would choose it particularly for mid to high end
>> servers. The worry at the moment is that it sits in a sort of middle
>> ground. Fully capable as a mid to top end server OS. But what is it
>> really? Where do you place it mentally, in the UNIX camp or the Linux
>> camp? If the UNIX camp then will it be around in ten years time, will
>> there be a need to re-port anything written for it now to a Linux version
>> at a later date? With Linux you can be certain that it will be around for
>> ten years and beyond, what about Solaris though.
>>
>> You could say that UNIX is suffering because of Linux, but you can equally
>> say that the UNIX idea is benefitting from inclusion into Linux. But UNIX
>> itself is not very likely to survive. Of cause there are situations where
>> to port Linux applications would be far too costly, also places where IT
>> folk are not so certain of Linux capabilities as their trusted UNIX. But
>> still, in time those situations will be few and far between.
>>
>> Solaris could be the edge, in that it is UNIX enough to convince the timid
>> but Linux enough to let them move forward.
>>
>> To start this process though, go open source let the developers commercial
>> and otherwise attract peoples interests, build confidence. You will never
>> hear IT/developers criticising Solaris, it's just too bloody good, so
>> there is no risk from opening it up, and the praise will echo through the
>> canyons of IT world repeating the name Solaris in all the right places
>> with all the right possitive attitudes.
>>
>> Solaris-Oracle is a major boost for the sort I am talking about, that has
>> to be good for both Oracle and Solaris, but more is needed.
>>
>> For the other side, Solaris as a desktop I would be less certain. Seems a
>> bit like training an elephant to squeeze oranges for your breakfast.
>> Except that Sun always made the best of the workstations. Sun know a thing
>> or two about desktops and applications,
>>
>> By the way Sun, I praised you a little while ago and have not yet received
>> my complementary Sun SPARC M4000 with Solaris for my personal home use !!
>> Could you check with the courier you used I think they must have lost it.
>
> I think it's worth adding that Google have tested OpenSolaris on their
> servers. If Sun equates itself to Linux on 'moral grounds', it could truly
> give Linux a run for the errr... money? Where's our money? ;-)
Addendum: don't wait for your free hardware. The company that does this for
presence also has 'micros' in its name, but it's not Sun Microsystems.
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