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Re: [News] Linux is Eating Sun Microsystems' Lunch

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:33:48 +0100
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sun Sparc defectors tap Transitive for Linux migrations
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | One such customer is London-based King's College Hospital NHS
> | Foundation Trust, which used QuickTransit to move off Solaris/Sparc
> | onto Linux/x86 in July.  
> `----
> 
> http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1268396,00.html
> 
> Even Sun uses Linux (see bottom).
> 
> 
> Yesterday:
> 
> Sun set on server business?
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In many ways, Sun is becoming Red Hat.
> `----
> 
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1336
> 
> 
> Related:
> 
> Sun's X64-Based Streaming Server Runs on Linux
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The Linux used in the system is one that Kealia created for itself
> | based on an undisclosed commercial distribution with some real-time
> | hooks in it to boost the responsiveness of the system. Over the long
> | haul, you can bet that Sun will port the Streaming System software
> | to Solaris.
> `----
> 
> http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn042607-story01.html


Linux is HUNGRY. It's going to eat everyone's lunch. The insanity of
proprietary lockdown is GONE forever. Linux developement is rumbling
like a storm.

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