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Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN
From: |
Christopher Browne |
Subject: |
Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN |
Date: |
26 Aug 2004 13:52:54 GMT |
Clinging to sanity, Richard.L.Hamilton@mindwarp.smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton)
mumbled into her beard:
> In article <2p58l4Ffh581U1@uni-berlin.de>,
> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes:
>> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when groenvel@cse.psu.edu (John D
>> Groenveld) would write:
>>> In article <m3d61fr187.fsf@magma.savecore.net>,
>>> Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:
>>>>It's already happening (lxrun, and now Janus). How is more compatibility
>>>>bad?
>>>
>>> Win-OS/2 became an excuse for ISVs to not provide native OS/2 ports.
>>>
>>> If its Sun's intention to capitalize on Solaris x86/Opteron to
>>> expand the entire Solaris ecosystem, then Janus should be seen by
>>> Sun as a good hack in the short term; a bad hack with prolonged
>>> use.
>>
>> Sun's in the market to sell hardware, not OSes.
>>
>> Their proper goal is to seek to get people to buy their hardware.
>> If it gives enough "warm fuzzies" to people to have the Sun name on
>> the front and Linux on the login, this is not a "bad hack."
>
> Oh, in the short term it could pay off.
>
> But in the long term, catering to stupid people has its limits, not
> to mention nontrivial adverse consequences (more stupid people, if
> nothing else).
Well, they have had a hard time building SPARC/Solaris hardware that
stays running.
It seems to me that they have to have _some_ kind of fundamental
change in order for there to be _any_ customers that come back.
My employer is in the process of deep-sixing the Sun/Solaris hardware
in favor of IBM/AIX because of reliability issues. They'd have to do
something pretty tremendous to tempt us back.
Opteron+Linux happens to be a combination we're interested in where,
at least on the Linux side, we expect better reliability than we've
seen on Sun/Solaris.
There are two servers we're decommissioning in September that numerous
of our sysadmin types would (at least in joke) like to drop on Sun HQ
from 30,000 feet.
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- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, (continued)
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Rich Teer, 2004/08/23
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, UNIX admin, 2004/08/24
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Frank Cusack, 2004/08/25
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Robin KAY, 2004/08/25
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, John D Groenveld, 2004/08/25
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Christopher Browne, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, McBofh, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, John D Groenveld, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Richard L. Hamilton, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN,
Christopher Browne <=
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Casper H . S . Dik, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Christopher Browne, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Casper H . S . Dik, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Peter Bunclark, 2004/08/27
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Gunthar, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Richard Steiner, 2004/08/26
- Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, UNIX admin, 2004/08/28
Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, JEDIDIAH, 2004/08/25
Re: GPL'ing Solaris won't save SUN, Richard L. Hamilton, 2004/08/24