All
It is possible that in saying this I shall be accused of paranoia to the
nth degree, but the cycle has always been for the proprietary folks to
offer some diversion to distract, any time it looks like ordinary folks
might be doing OK without them. Sun, HP, IBM - all have good folks with
great intentions working for them, and good products, too. But someone
is watching the bottom line and making marketing decisions there as well.
Regards
Fred James
Rodney Mishima wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:03:42AM -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote:
http://www.sun.com/2005-0614/feature/index.html
So, potentially features of Solaris that are more robust than Linux
will be available for integration into a less expensive offering?
Name one. :)
Seriously, no, the licenses are incompatible.
thanks,
greg k-h
Greg,
I am not necessarily a proponent of Sun. But, I do remember Sun fondly
as the first positive unix experience I had encountered.
This was during the days of the Sun -3 workstation based on the
Motorola 68k. Previously, my first unix exposure was HP's first
release of hpux on their 500 series workstation, which was from AT&T
without the Berkeley extensions ( 14 character file name limit,
commands with file expansion capability can't handle more than 100
files, and the like).
Since Solaris has been 64 bit for about a decade, I'd think something
in their Open Source offering ought to be worthy of adoption by the
Open Source community. I heard that DEC Alpha had a 64 bit OS before
Sun, so being the first may not be such an exploitable
advantage(acquired by Compaq, now part of HP).
If/when you take a closer look at what Sun has released into Open
Source, I'd appreciate it you could post your impressions to the list
(one or all of them)
Rodney
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