Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Sep 2007 17:20 UTC, submitted by adstro
Sun seeks to apply the lessons of Linux and turn open source Solaris into an operating system to rival Linux and to be as commonly used as Java. Sun Microsystems has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java. In addition, Sun released Update 4 for Solaris 10 (also called Solaris 08/07), introducing a major enhancement in its OS virtualization technology called Solaris Containers.
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to be as commonly used as Java.
Someone at Sun should tell the directives some day that Java has failed to become "commonly used". I've been using Linux for years and I've never installed a java VM, and I've never used a program that required me to use Java. I only have found a page that required me to use java, and it was a page with small games programmed with java.
Jave gets used a lot internally in many companies and as server-side language in web servers...but come on, I hope they're targetting a bit highter than java's level of usage.
BTW: Linux has also been "challenging" solaris - for now, the fight is "1-0", with linux as winner. Personally I doubt Solaris can "challenge" linux supremacy in the FOSS field: Opensource is mostly about X.org, gnome, kde, firefox.....ie: things that will run in solaris just as well, there're not many incentives to change just to get the same.
Edited 2007-09-04 17:53