Sun Looks to Expand Service Offerings
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| Sun Microsystems expects its latest service feature to be the answer
| for IT managers lost in their own data center.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2143722,00.asp
Will Sun's open-source software help it sell more hardware?
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| That ultimately would benefit Sun, Schwartz said, by creating a market
| its open-source technologies, which the company could then monetise
| via sales and support of "high-scale" hardware.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/features/index.cfm?featureid=3449&pagtype=all
They evolve to become more like Red Hat. Microsoft tries this too
(subscription-based), but Google's model is another model to compete with
(advertisement, SaaS).
Related:
Sun Micro introduces more flexible blade servers
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| The blade servers, collectively known as the Sun Blade 6000 Modular
| System, can be linked together using any combination of UltraSPARC
| chips, Intel's Xeon processor or Opteron. They will also run
| Solaris, Microsoft Windows operating system and the freely
| available Linux operating system.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070606:MTFH86476_2007-06-06_15-39-46_N06382923&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/yrbuhs
Solaris can never be Linux
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| Things haven't changed much at Sun. When Sun launched its
| OpenSolaris project in 2005 it used the Common Development and
| Distribution Licence - which is incompatible withb the GPL - and
| some system code was not released.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12116/1090/
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