Unix vendors get creative in face of Windows, Linux competition
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| "People wanted to go to Linux," says Min Kang, director of IT at the
| firm in El Segundo, Calif.
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| With Unix maturing out of its expensive, big server days into more
| flexible packages that, in Sun?s case, can even run on competitors'
| hardware, Kang and his team had broader options.
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| Today, the company's Web sites, which get about 15 million unique
| visitors monthly, are supported primarily by Dell servers running Solaris.
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| "This gives us freedom because Solaris on x86 runs on pretty much
| anything: you can run it on HP, you can run it on Dell -- you can
| choose your hardware. But then you also get the reliability of
| Solaris support and that's my main thing -- support," Kang says.
| "If Sun didn't have Solaris 10 on x86 we would probably have gone
| to Linux."
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/0205-7-special-focus.html
FOSS consulting offers special advantages and challenges
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| A clear sign that free and open source software (FOSS) has become
| mainstream is the growing number of small consultants who
| specialize in it. Listed on local users groups or high-tech
| forums and working mostly by themselves, these consultants
| rarely make headlines, yet they represent a sizable and growing
| niche in small business in modern North American cities.
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http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/21889
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