Sun's Latest Follow-The-Leader Project
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| My advice to Sun would be to get 100% on the GNU/Linux train, even
| to contributing fine grained locking and dtrace and other nifty
| tweaks that give Solaris an edge at the moment over Linux. Make
| compatibility libraries and shims for Solaris targeted software and
| drivers. Then the Linux developers and the application developers
| who target Linux firstly work for you. Solaris development can be
| tapered off, no reason to lose customers or the huge application
| base or compatibility, but grow the GNU/Linux and shrink the Solaris
| over the next five or more years. Because the hundreds of millions
| of dollars a year it takes to have your own Unix is getting too
| expensive in this fiercely competitive business, and Sun's
| competitors have already made the choice to do it and Sun is not
| as big as they are nor have their cash reserves.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/5/10/19576
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McNealy says Sun evaluating OpenSolaris on GPL
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| There have been nearly 8 million downloads of Solaris in the last
| two years, and there are 900 systems certified to run Solaris,
| which is more than any Linux distribution, McNealy said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070509/tc_infoworld/88402
Sun hopes for Linux-like Solaris
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| Basic operations, such as the "ls" command to see a listing of
| files in a directory, behave differently in Solaris, and Solaris
| lacks Linux tools for packaging, downloading and installing
| software such as Debian's apt-get, Murdock said. And Linux's
| installation process is much better than that of Solaris, in
| part because of better hardware support, he said.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62011784,00.htm
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