____/ Toad on Monday 20 August 2007 01:33 : \____
> flyer wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> How can anything "free" eat anyone's lunch? The notion of a
> professional Linux developer is an oxymoron. The only people that
> develop on Linux are college students working on class projects and
> they don't have a choice.
Yeah... all those Oracle developers and college students from Google... I guess
that all Linux users are also geeks like Michael Dell and Mark Shuttleworth.
Enough with stereotypes.
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