OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 14th Jun 2005 04:11 UTC

Sun Microsystems is expected to release Solaris as open-source software Tuesday, a centerpiece of the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend of rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft.

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This is so sad.

by Shaman on Tue 14th Jun 2005 12:57 UTC

Sun pre-announces once again that OpenSolaris will appear "really soon now!!" And I just visited their site... nothing yet.

But anyway, what does it matter? Open Solaris isn't going to get much of a community behind it.

What interests me is that there appears to be a number of Sun employees and/or paid shills trolling OSNews for Sun. Some of these comments are beyond troll, they smell as strongly of astroturf as anything I can remember.

I suppose I should update my Solaris boxes to v10, tho. Just so that they won't be so damned slow anymore.