Re: [Sheflug] Mad Hatter

[David Holden <dh [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 Sep 2003 3:54 pm, Jon Masters wrote:
> 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.

Problem is it would have been another Linux vendor that ISV would have had to 
support, or more accurately that sun would have had to persuade to support.

>
> > 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.


So they did not buy licenses from SCO then??


>
> 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.


Again solaris on intel will not beable to match linux on intel with regard to 
ISV support by an ever increasing margin.




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> Jon.
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