> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20040721#competing_against_a_social_movement > > Sun takes aim at Red Hat.
It's much, much more than that. As Schwartz himself noted: "as we build our way into the $20B x86 server market" "a hesitation that left customers wanting to deploy x86-based systems with only two choices: Microsoft's Windows, or 'linux.'" Looking at the above, SUN wants to enter the x86 server OS market as a major player using *gasp!* Solaris X86. On the Desktop market, it's the SUN Java Desktop (looks like a variation of SuSe's Distro) or again, the Solaris X86. The Solaris X86 was always viewed as a step child in SUN's family of profit. Always being ignored and development and patches always lagging. But that has changed. SUN is on the offensive, and they are going to: "make the OS available under an open-source model by year's end" http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,94456,00.html I would think it's the X86 that will be open source. Would be very impressed if they do that too with the SPARC version. the bottomline here is, they are targeting the X86 server market as another profit revenue for the company. And it just so happens that Redhat/Microsoft is a major competitor in that arena. Questions for you guys here. Will you consider deploying it now that it's an alternative open source OS? For me, time will tell... --- Andre -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
