Q&A: Sun's Top Operating System Brass Talk OS Strategy
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| The one-line answer is that we are making Solaris into a distribution, too.
| And to the extent that you hear that Project Indiana aims to make Solaris
| more like Linux, that actually fundamentally misses the point. It is mostly
| taking the lesson that Linux has brought to the operating system and
| providing that for Solaris as well.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug080207-story01.html
Related:
Study: Developers Favor Linux
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| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
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| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766
Debian's Ian Speaks: Gaining Developer Mindshare Is Key
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| "Sun's Linux strategy is not well articulated. People who ask why I'm
| at Sun say, 'I thought Sun was anti-Linux.' That's not true at all.
| Solaris is the operating system of choice, no doubt at all, but there
| is a certain part of the market that wants Linux. Why argue with that?
| We can do a better job of articulating the Solaris strategy," Sun's
| Ian Murdock said.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/56996.html
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