At Mon, 11 Feb 2002 it looks like Bob Van Cleef composed: > > Has anyone seen any indication of a sea change since the press release > stating the Sun was embracing Linux? >
Hmm, well there have been actually two announcements in the last two weeks that have raised havoc on the SUN mailing lists, Solaris-On-Intel to be exact. Sun announced that they were NOT going to release Solaris-9 for Intel but only Solaris-9 for Sparc, they also pulled the free downloads for Solaris-8 Intel ISO's but Sparc downloads are still free. That lit off a rage on the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/messages list which caught SUN off gaurd and they had a big meeting today, that is 6 of the top posters of the Solaris-On-Intel lists and some big folks at SUN, they will announce the results tomorrow or shortly after. Posters to the list are divided, not on the Solaris OS but on what SUN should do since it buckled in per-se'. Some say SUN is losing it, (see stock prices) some say they are just in a flux. I posted once stating that SUN would do good to invest in Linux on Sparc hardware to help salvage the possibly soon to come "Sparc Auctions" but my idea wasn't received well. Jeez I see companies with hundred of thousands of dollars of pre-existing sparc hardware just waiting to install a Sparc version of Linux but Sun as we know it doesn't have a Linux release for Sparc. For orientation purposes I posted the url of http://www.ultralinux.org/ We'll see. :) __ |<-----------------------|_72_Characters_Wide_|----------------------->| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com
