HI!
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 Jean-Pierre Dube wrote:
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>I also read an article where the say that SUN was the last
>major company to endorse Linux I guess that they are scare of Linux and
>want to protect their beloved Solaris.
What about this announcement, that future Solaris releases will be
Linux-compatible?
>I'm also a bit tired of SUN
>marketing "Write Once Run Anywhere". I think that again marketing and
>technology are going seperate ways. SUN is not playing it fare. On one
>hand they want to protect their OS and on the other hand they want to
>domintate the world with Java but their playing it safe not to disturb
>their OS conterpart that why all new releases of the JDK are for
>Solaris-Sparc, Solaris-Intel and Windows.
I think the real Java domination starts with Jini. They can make so much more
money with Java for washing machines, TV sets etc.
>In my opinion they should drop
>Solaris-Intel and replace it with Linux, since nobody is using the damn
>thing.
Read some of the job ads for web admins. There's still a big market for the Sun
hardware. And Solaris is still OS #1 on this hardware.
>They also want to fight the dominance of the Windows platform but
>they don't want to support Linux directly wich right now is the biggest
>competitor to Windows.
I think Linux is definitely competitor #1 for WinNT. But Sun makes some money
with it's servers, so supporting Linux too much would hurt their business. Sun
is not a major player on the desktop, so they could support Linux there a lot
easier. But many people say, that Linux is not ready for the desktop.
Ciao,
Andreas
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