Am 23.03.2009 um 12:53 schrieb ????? ????????????: > On 3/23/09, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Epps, Aaron <Epps.Aaron at mayo.edu> >> wrote: >>> IMHO, I think this would be short-sighted and disastrous for Sun. >>> IBM >>> would kill anything that competes with it's current offerings, >>> Solaris >>> competes with AIX, FishWorks competes with their crappy rebranded >>> NetApp >>> Storage Systems, SPARC competes with their PowerPC arch, etc. I >>> hope I'm >>> wrong about this but I think Big Blue would kill off almost >>> everything >>> (except Java and MySQL) that we like about Sun. Thoughts? >>> >> >> One of the benefits of opensourcing is the life of technologies >> transcend that of organizations if the uptake for that technology is >> high enough ! > > A large part of Opensolaris still relies on closed source which is > controlled by Sun. If IBM takes over then can let Opensolairs "die" by > locking the closed parts away. > -- >
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