> This is HORRIBLE. > If IBM has any interest in taking over a smaller > company with the same > products, then only to destroy competition:
Usually, yes. Chances are good that's the case here. > Kill SPARC (T2 and Rock, not sure what they would do > with Fujitsu's > SPARC64), They can't do anything about Fujitsu, since it is its own company, producing its own hardware designs and its own processors; in other words, other than Solaris himself, Fujitsu would be largely unaffected. And all the mainframe-class systems Sun sells today are actually a Sun rebranded Fujitsu hardware running Fujitsu's, not Sun's processors. Other than T-series and the i86pc series, Sun doesn't really produce any SPARC based systems any more.[QUOTE]move customers to PowerPC[/QUOTE]It'd be nice if it really happened! I would not mind running Solaris on POWER6. Not at all, provided that the hardware is *DIRT CHEAP* and easily available, in rang with the run 'o' the mill PC-bucket. If anything, it would bring the PlayStation 3 port of Solaris closer to reality. Otherwise, it'd be a disaster for Solaris. I'm so sick and tired of expensive proprietary systems; I hate them, passionately! > Kill NetBeans, force customers to Eclipse. Is that really relevant? From what I can tell, Eclipse is the defacto standard anyway. > Kill OpenSolaris, force customers to migrate to > LinUX. Can't kill something that's open source. If IBM tries to pull any stupid stuff, I'm forking the OpenSolaris code immediately, no ifs, buts, or maybes. I will have no mercy. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
