Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 3rd Dec 2002 01:59 UTC
Recently, a few independent departments (Solaris, java, Netscape and other middleware) at Sun Microsystems got integrated into one, the Platform/Software Group. We had a quick chat with Mr John Fowler, Sun Software's CTO about Solaris 10, Java, the competition and more.
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Agreed.
A major advantage of Unix systems is that average users can download and compile their own code and share this out with coworkers. Which means that you still have the employee empowerment advantages of unmanaged PCs; with the stability and support of dumb terminals. I used a X-term setups during most of the early 90's and it was a wonderful environment; I got a hassle free high power environment.
The lockdown mainframe environment drove people to put crucial systems on PCs during the 1980s. I'm seeing the same effect today with locked down PCs driving people to put crucial company data on personal laptops and PDAs. Employees obviously need both freedom and a high quality stable environment and I don't see XP-Professional making it cost effective for business to offer this.