"E. Mike Durbin" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/06/2010 09:21 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> > There is no commercial benefit for oracle to try displacing ubuntu in > > the desktop market. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > Solaris's dominance (yes, dominance) in the server market is *largely* > due to the fact that > Solaris was the development environment for almost all the applications > that run on those > servers at the time they are initially developed. For example, Oracle > runs on Solaris more > than any other OS because, when Oracle was developed in the 80's and > early 90's, Solaris > was the standard development environment at Oracle. > > There is a HUGE benefit by making OpenSolaris a good, solid desktop > environment. Now let us correct the first statement to: There is no directly visible commercial benefit for oracle to try displacing ubuntu in the desktop market. There is however a drawback for Oracles commercial success in case that Solaris is no longer viable on the desktop. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
