On 4/9/09, Andy Sy <[email protected]> wrote: > Pablo Manlalastas wrote: > > > Sun will probably have the greatest contributions to the > > free software community, with NFS, Java, OpenOffice, etc. > > Next comes IBM with Eclipse, Apache, etc. Oracle and > > And yet IBM doesn't want to buy Sun to save it from > impending doom... after IBM themselves have profited > handsomely from Java and usurped Java standards (e.g. > Eclipse vs. Swing)
You may add zone as it it's now some what incorporated with AIX6.1 > > Where's the soul in that? :-) Sun is great software company but its hardware business cause its downfall and for IBM their interest on Sun is on the software > > > But my original statement about Sun and IBM, on the one hand, > > and Microsoft and Oracle on the other, holds water, and I believe, > > is a reflection on the difference in the corporate "souls" of > > these two groups. > > IBM went from being the stodgiest company around to adopting > Linux and the open source mantra because they couldn't see > any other way to compete with NT. Anybody ever remember AIX ? IBM would have killed windows if it did not abandon OS2. What's wrong with AIX, its alive and kicking :) _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
