__/ [ [H]omer ] on Tuesday 01 May 2007 00:32 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> Sun Mulls Deeper Open-Source Dive
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | It has been five years since Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott
>> | McNealy donned a penguin suit at a San Francisco conferenceto
>> | demonstrate Sun's détente with Linux. Rather than dis the
>> | open-source operating system as an inferior competitor, Sun
>> | would sell it, albeit in select corners of the market.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | Now, amid falling sales of its bread-and-butter servers and mounting
>> | pressure on Schwartz to cut more jobs and boost a stock price that's
>> | dropped more than 22%, to $5.26, since early February, Sun is
>> | considering its most radical open-source move yet: releasing Solaris
>> | under the love-it-or-hate-it GPL.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070430_095211.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech
>> http://tinyurl.com/yudo53
>
> [Munch, munch, munch]
>
> That was the sound of me eating my own words.
>
> [Looks out window]
>
> Oh look ... a flying pig!
With an Apple Mac in his mouth... and a $3000 Solaris workstation strapped to
his back.
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