Hi Abigail --
> Sun doesn't charge you for the OS. It charges you for the
> production and
> distribution costs of the CD, administration costs. Etc. It's
> in the same
> price range as you pay for a Red Hat box in a book shop. As you will
> notice, you don't have to type in license keys when
> installing Solaris.
>
> That's not $$$, and totally insignificant to the costs of the
> hardware.
Hehe... OK. Accepting your assertion, let me re-state my original point:
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Once you open the "Pandora's Box" of Open-Source (by using Perl, for
instance), dumping SOLARIS in favor of Linux is the next logical step.
[Abigail -- are we cool so far?]
Once you dump SOLARIS, you're just a hop, skip and a jump from realizing
that your US$20k Sun E250 can be replaced with US$5k worth of Intel-based
equipment from a reputable vendor, such as IBM.
In conclusion:
Sun knows this, and is arguably more motivated than Microsoft to minimize
Perl and open-source in general.
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BTW: Sun is *barely* in the hardware business. COMPAQ, Gateway and Dell
are in the hardware business. Sun is in the hardware business only as long
as they can continue to sell FUD to the Fortune 500. IMHO, Sun hardware is
unnecessary in all but about 20% of the places it is currently in use. As
commodity hardware continues to improve, the capabilities of Linux continue
to improve, and the trend towards clustering more and smaller machines
persists, Sun hardware (and software) will become more and more unnecessary.
-Jesse-
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