On Wednesday 31 January 2007 12:21 am, Ian Collins wrote: > Maybe, but it's the perception - all it would take would be for one > reasonably well known company to pick up on OpenSolaris to embed in > their product and the perception of OpenSolaris would shift away form it > being Sun only. At the moment, the almost automatic choice would be Linux.
Well, that is happening already. Intel announced their support for Solaris/OpenSolaris, and Intel is interested in open sourcing their drivers, and want to play well with Sun, as does Sun with Intel. IBM is also embracing it on their blade centers, and are a reseller of Solaris. So there are things happening in this regard. > To be honest, I haven't been through their stuff in too much detail > because I haven't seen chip specs and they don't support Solaris! It's > probably more of a case of which part is in demand. I'll see what I can find out. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people that care about our company! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
