Yesterday, I responded to Microsoft^WSun's so-called 'Reality-Check' at http://www.sun.com/executives/realitycheck/reality-022002.html with this response: == Very Informative in one sense, that is: This article makes it clear that Sun is no better than Microsoft when addressing competitive threats in public. It is disingenuous at best, marketing drivel at worst. And this coming from someone who has long hated Microsoft and long appreciated Sun's openness. Until, that is, it's behavior with Java (refusal to certify open source implementations) and it's reaction to the Free Software / Linux threat came to the surface. IBM, on the other hand, is taking the intelligent position: Observe where the world of software is going and embrace it. Though I am cautious and skeptical of Big Blue's participation in the Free Software / open source communities, what I've seen so far puts Sun to shame. == And then, our good friend Moshe Bar posts his excellent response on Byte. Nice to a good technical critique a glaring marketing flub-up:
http://www.byte.com/documents/s=7030/byt1015006951867/0304_moshe.html Yes, perhaps my post to Sun's site was bit reactionary, but I felt the company needed to here from someone used have some degree of faith in its good intentions and has since lost most of it. Read Moshe Bar's article, however. He does a much better job than I did (hey, they only provided me that little teeny-weeny box ;-)). -- -Paul Iadonisi Senior System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
