Bill Rushmore wrote:
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Laura Ramsey wrote:
This is amazing on *several* levels:
1--We're on the radar ...but why? That's what's so amazing.
2--Ron H. is mistaken--he thinks OpenSolaris is a linux-based
community...another amazing thing--he didn't even LOOK at the
community, before he proclaimed it a "fork"
So what Mr Hovsepian is really saying is that he wishes Solaris was
still closed source so he could claim supporiority over Solaris. Because
all he had was that Solaris was closed and Suse was open. But now
OpenSolaris is actually more open than Suse at this point. Novell can
only make money off of Suse in the area of support and services, but Sun
has that, hardware, and other Software to profit off of with
OpenSolaris. And all of this isn't dependant upon outside interests. So
it is no wonder they see Sun as a big threat to them.
It should be obvious that Novell has perceived Sun to be competitor
since they brought SuSE. It is only a couple of months since OpenSolaris
was laucnhed, they launched their equivalent as I have mentioned it
then, http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/gheet/20050810
There is no doubt though they are putting in lots of efforts in the
desktop areas, lots of good stuff there to be fair, SuSE is probably one
that has invested significantly in the core desktop than most Open
Source companies.
-Ghee
Bill
rushmores.net
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