__/ [ Maverick ] on Saturday 10 March 2007 17:48 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> New OpenSolaris distribution for developers
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>> | Sun launches products for web infrastructure on Solaris 10
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/09/sun_microsystems_opensolaris/
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>> Top Solaris Marketeers Exit Sun, Stage Left
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>> | Server and operating system maker Sun Microsystems Inc has confirmed
>> | rumors that its two top marketeers for the Solaris operating system
>> | have both decided to leave the company.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=C159E4BA-D143-49EC-83CD-2DBBB340D1CB
>
> I perceive that Sun was where DEC was back in 1991... they don't listen
> and can't see the huge tsnunami heading their way.
I think they /do/ see it, but they are not sure how to respond. They have
begun talking about GPLv3, they sponsor the FSF (the "hippies" to some), and
they are distributing free CDs. They bend backwards just to find a new
direction and they hope to cash in on services, just like Red Hat. But they
just can't attract so many developers, based on something they said when
they weighed their changes with GPLv3 (meeting minutes... maybe it was Simon
Phipps or the Jonathan Schwartz blog).
Speaking of uncertainty, Microsoft is on the same boat but it has money (and
nerve) to respond using FUD and litigation. Oracle and other foresee a
similar future where Open Source keeps improving and improving until it
reaches parity (at the very least) with proprietary software. Linux and
Firefox, for example, are already ahead. Postgre/MySQL, on the other, still
have some maturing/catching-up to do, but they will get there.
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