Re: [Sheflug] Mad Hatter

[Jon Masters <jonathan [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, David Holden wrote:

> They started off creating there own distro

That move was potentially useful had they pushed agressively in to
providing GNU/Linux boxen on a large scale. What someone should have
realised is that Sun are not box shifters and are not going to become
GNU/Linux shifters though they will sell systems to those who want them.

> First they said they were abandoning solaris on Ix86 now they are pushing it 
> big time. They slag of linux (and buy into SCO nonsense) on the one hand and 
> on the other do things like mad hatter.

The SCO thing was pure marketting and that was very obviously used in the
same way that IBM or another would use such a situation.

Sun have a group called the Solaris Intel revival group which is pushing
Solaris on Intel big time indeed. Who knows where that will go.

Jon.

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