Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Sun's top Solaris sellers bail out
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> | A pair of Sun's top Solaris executives have scurried right on out
> | of the company, The Register can reveal.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/22/sun_solaris_exit/
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> Sun's servers resurgent in 2006 - Gartner
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> | Sun Microsystems used 2006 as a throwback session by pushing
> | its sales way higher while rivals were happy to exit the year
> | with any kind of growth.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/22/gartner_2006_sales/
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> This could suggest that Linux growth cuts into Windows' market share, not
> just UNIX/Solaris, which is what Microsoft want people to believe. SCO
> wants people to believe that IBM neglected UNIX to give way to Linux,
> which is another thing that was disproven in courts/Groklaw quite
> recently.
>
> Gartner: x86 server sales growth slowed in Q4
>
No it wasn't neglect of UNIX, it was just that they saw the potential of
Linux sooner than their rivals. Even at the stage when we were all using a
Linux server for nothing more than writing and testing code before moving
it onto the main servers, it was obvious that Linux would have a place.
Like many I had no idea where Linux would go from there, you would have had
to be a brave man back there to stick your kneck out and claim that Linux
would one day take the place of UNIX, even braver to put your manhood on
the chopping block and claim it would one day take on the desktop clients.
Though it must be said that very early in Linux's carrier it was being
earmarked as a nice workstation, though more often as a dumb terminal.
IBM didn't abandon UNIX, they just made use of that part of IBM that is
better than most others in this buisiness, which is looking ahead and
applying innovation.
As for Sun, lets put Sun into perspective because many of the younger people
on here may not know.
When you were planning a new UNIX server and some workstations, the first
place you always looked was Sun. Because their servers were the bee's knees
and their work stations were always a long way in advance of anything else.
You can thank Sun for a great deal of the functionality of your favourite
graphics card for example. We in PC world were on two layer graphics when
Sun workstations were on 16 or more, we were on 16 bit colour, they were
already on hi-color. We were losing PC resources to graphic functionality
when Sun graphics cards were already doing a lot of their own work.
It was always budget in the end that knocked you down to one of the others,
plus their support, in Britland at least, was never up to HP or IBM
standards.
So a shortened UNIX list :-
HP - rock solid hardware that lasts a couple of eternities with only a
couple of tape drive changes in the log book. Bit tight with additional
UNIX bits and bobs, sort of the Redhat of the UNIX world in that respect.
IBM - brillient all round, grumbling support, tend to give more freebies
away.
Sun - Dream world, where you would like to go but can't get there because of
cost.
So, Sun's Solaris is getting attention, IT folk have dreamt for a long time
and now find they can get at least part of that dream for free and it is a
bloody good awakening to find that Solaris is much more than it was in the
dreamland days.
Now the big question is, will Sun be releasing a free version of 'Sun Fire
T2000' servers? Has anyone seen a report on this? Please? Well all the
plugs I give Sun and Solaris they should send me one for free anyway, I'm
not greedy an X4100 would do.
I have said it before and I'll say it again, because I am a parrot. Solaris
will in time be the biggest of the lot in Linux world, maybe not in the
home, unless it is as a server, but every where else Solaris kicks arse. It
will sit on the biggest of the servers you can buy, down to mid, medium and
small, it will go onto workstation class hardward and it will go onto your
PC. One super-solid system through your entire system what ever size
company you are. That aint no mean feat.
If the head of Sun would like to send me my free server, could you have them
deliver it on Monday morning as I have a day off, thankyou.
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