Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Nov 2004 20:48 UTC
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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He said that OpenSolaris won't impace the growth of BSD and Linux, as they aren't competitors.
But then he says the threat to Sun comes from Red Hat and Microsoft. Correct me if I'm wrong but Red Hat is one of the larger commercial Linux businesses, so if Linux continues to grow so might Red Hat.
Schwarz has always made a distinction between "Linux" and "RedHat". Where "Linux" is everything but RedHat. Which makes sense, since Sun will never be able to compete with "Linux" (no company can), but they CAN compete with Red Hat.