> We need to be fair here. Sun did "defer" Solaris for x86 in 2002. We > didn't really get it fully back on track until Solaris 10 in 2005. > So > even in > late 2004 all a customer had from us was statements of intent, not an > actual product.
Good point. I wasn't involved with Sun at all during this time period, so I didn't realize this was true. > If someone tries something like this now, it would in fact be FUD > and we > could > vigorously combat it. We couldn't do that prior to the release of > Solaris 10, and > to some extent even OpenSolaris. Makes sense. > There is no question Sun made mistakes that we're still trying to > recover from. Well, I'm glad at least the mistakes are realized and that the company is headed in the right direction now. I guess that's the first key to "recovery" at least in this sense. Thank you for the clarification, David _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
