Look what Zander is saying about Linux
Raghunath L wrote:
> Sun's Zander talks tough to competitors
> By Stephen Shankland
> Staff Writer, CNET News.com
> Nov. 27, 4:00 a.m. PT
>
> Sun Microsystems chief operating officer Ed Zander may not be as
> outspoken as his boss, Scott McNealy, but he's a close second.
>
> Zander, who has been with Sun since 1987, has seen the company claw its
>
> way from a seller of niche Unix workstations to a powerhouse of the
> computing landscape. By selling ever-increasing numbers of powerful and
>
> profitable server computers--the brains of the Internet and of
> corporate
> networks--Sun has put Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Intel on the
> defensive.
>
> In doing so, though, Sun has stepped on more than a few toes. The Palo
> Alto,
> Calif.-based company has run into trouble trying to spread its Java
> software as widely as possible while
> simultaneously maintaining some control. It's also roused the wrath of
> Intel, which accused Sun of not
> working hard enough to get Sun's Solaris operating system working on
> Intel's upcoming high-end Itanium
> processors.
>
> But Zander is unapologetic. In a wide-ranging interview with News.com,
> he took on Intel, Microsoft, and
> even the Linux movement that so many companies work hard to curry favor
> with.
>
> The thing with Linux today--I call it the bathtub. I can throw source in
> there. It's all floating around and
> it's available to everybody. But I as a vendor can take anything I want
> out of that bathtub and call it Linux.
>
> Now if you think that's going to work for application developers, call
> me in a year or two when IBM's
> Linux is different than HP's Linux is different than Dell's Linux and
> (a customer) will have to recompile
> five times. You've broken it effectively. So you cannot depend on one
> Linux.
>
> --
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> RaghuNath
> WSS-Team
> TexasInstruments
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