> > Why would Sun be so keen to pay people to port Solaris (which has a price > tag = FREE) and help HP, IBM etc to sell their hardware? It would end up > being Sun paying to port the code. HP and IBM selling the hardware, and HP > and IBM getting support contracts for maintaining Solaris on HP and IBM > hardware. x86 on the other hand is different as Sun now has some very nice > x86 hardware which has the potential to lure support contracts back > towards Sun.
My question is why isn't Sun keen in porting Eclipse to Solaris 10 (x86) and help those of us who bought Sun boxes. I know about Netbeans but do a search it is not used nearly as much as Ecliplse. george _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
