If IBM will own Solaris it will have no incentive to send more money the RedHat Way .... Solaris will become a revenue source for them, Linux is not. They will probably port Solaris for Power, and migrate AIX custommers via AIX Brandz... this way they can consolidate on one OS across all their platforms... I would also not worry about relicensing Solaris technology to be used in Linux because it would benefit HP, DELL and that is not in IBMs interest... They will maintain Linux as a "low end" option as they always did...
If IBM takes over SUN, I wonder what impact Netapp will have since IBM OEMs their gear... Another opportunity for IBM to redirect money in own pockets... the more I think about it, this deal makes sense for IBM... The bad thing is that this will reduce competition and eliminate jobs... Just read JS blog post today, and looked at the Mac OSX screen shots he posted, and was wondering why he did not use the opportunity to promote opensolaris... I would not be surprised if Apple buys Sun .... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
