Sun is targeting nothing.

With OpenSolaris, it's all the community. It just so happens much of  
that community is at Sun and it's evident they want to create a solid  
desktop distro which they can build the enterprise version on top of.

Indeed, time will tell....




On May 22, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Mike Hawkins wrote:

> Thanks for all the great replies...
>
> I was leaning towards staying with *BSD because of the better  
> support for x86 hardware anyway, but we'll see how this project  
> progresses...
>
> It just seems to me like Sun is only trying to target a workstation  
> based platform for developers and not the server crowd (yet anyway)...
>
> If I wanted a desktop development platform I'd go with a Linux  
> distro...for servers, I prefer FreeBSD...this project just piqued my  
> interest because I wanted to see how the Java performance would be  
> (if there was any noticeable difference at all) if I were to use  
> this as a production server platform...
>
> I guess time will tell...
>
>
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