On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Alan DuBoff wrote: ... >> He's pointing out how the rest of the universe outside of Sun sees >> Linux. I can't say I disagree with him on his point. Not that *I >> personally* see Linux as a safe bet, but that decision makers >> definitely do. The tech press (which lots of CIOs read) portrays >> Linux in a good light to the IT world, that's for sure. > >I completely agree. Linux is considered a safe bet by many, since it is talked >about and the momentum of it continues to snowball.
Yes but snowballs tend to melt, it just needs to be hot enough ;) >... >This is afterall the first time that Sun is actually behind and promoting >Solaris on x86/x64 systems, and the x64 product is ahead of any other 64-bit >OS in it's category. Sun has the software, Sun has the hardware to back it up >with systems coming out. If Sun can just market the product correctly, they >have a winner They sure have the best chance they ever had and maybe they will never get a similar one again. Nevertheless, It takes the ISVs to make it a real success. I'm glad to see that by now a lot of Sun are really willing to take the chance they got offered. Just look at the internal "merger" of Sun which united the x86 and SPARC group. Makes perfect sense for me at the time being Thomas ----------------------------------------------------------------- GPG fingerprint: B1 EE D2 39 2C 82 26 DA A5 4D E0 50 35 75 9E ED _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
