On Mar 19, 12:29 am, Steven Herod <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you see the possibility that Solaris could supplant Linux in the > IBM suite?
I don't know. For all the talk by Sun about the fabulous Solaris uptake in the market, it sure doesn't make a lot of money: $42 million in the last quarter, -29% year-to-year. And that number includes virtualization and management software (http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/ investor/earnings_releases/Q209_SLD.pdf, slide 6). Maybe IBM would support Solaris if there's money in it, but they don't really need another OS, they already have Linux. The Register thinks IBM would just move the SPARC Solaris stuff to AIX using the emulating software it recently bought (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/19/ ibm_sun_deal_comment/). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
