Re: OT: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD

[Adam McKenna]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:08:33PM -0400, Stuart Krivis wrote:
> Sun has contributed to the Open Source community. I also notice that much 
> of the money being made on open source software is in the support arena. 
> Isn't that what RedHat is selling these days?

Sun contributes just enough to make it *appear* as though they care about
open source, however, those of us who have recently met with Sun
sales engineers and heard the FUD they spread about Open Source software and
OS's know a different story.

As far as RedHat support, yeah, it's there.  But I've yet to hear the phrase
"nobody ever got fired for buying {RedHat,Linux}" in the corporate world.

> A number of the leading lights of open source are now working for major OS 
> vendors. What do you make of that?

Who, exactly, are you speaking of?  I prefer not to comment on
generalizations.

> Apple is well on its way to becoming the largest volume vendor of unix. How 
> will that affect things?

Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

--Adam