Re: [Sheflug] Mad Hatter

[David Holden <dh [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 Sep 2003 4:27 pm, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, David Holden wrote:
> > So they did not buy licenses from SCO then??
>
> AFAIK they restated that their original UNIX source license was perpetual
> and that the nature of Solaris meant that it was not affected.

This would indicate otherwise.

http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1024633.html

>From a Linux user point of view Sun is the other big company (along with 
microsoft) that having given SCO a shed load of money to continue their FUD 
campaign against linux.


> > Again solaris on intel will not beable to match linux on intel with
> > regard to ISV support by an ever increasing margin.
>
> The point is that there is a reasonable installed SPARC Solaris user base
> and Sun would probably rather lose a SPARC sale to an Intel box running
> Solaris than one running Linux and besides those likely to use Solaris on
> Intel are likely to be experienced Solaris Sysadmins anyway.


But that base is being eaten up by Linux and will increasingly be eaten up.


Where as HP and IBM have taken this on board Sun haven't.


 Dave.



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