Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Nov 2004 20:48 UTC
SUN Microsystems We had the pleasure of having a quick chat with Sun's COO, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday. We talked about a variety of things, including Java, Solaris, Red Hat and good ol' Unix.
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Sun/Solaris vs. IBM/Linux (ENTERPRISE)
by GrapeGraphics on Wed 24th Nov 2004 21:50 UTC

Jonathan wants to be the king of enterprise, that's why he released Solaris into the wild. If he can migrate Linux enterprise users over to a more, lets say, established UNIX he'll be happy. They pay the bucks (support et al). Desktop users don't want to pay Sun for anything... that's also why he likes OSX, it's focused on desktop and has a UNIX core... He knows Apple want mainly the media industry and knows apple will not focus on corporate enterprise, I believe that's also an IBM ingredient. So, Sun is really trying seeing IBM/Linux as the competition not Linux persay...

All IMHO

Jb