Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 4th Mar 2006 17:31 UTC, submitted by misha
Sun's CEO Scott McNealy has published an open letter to HP, proposing a merger of their respective UNIX platforms. In the past, Sun's top execs have been highly critical of HP-UX's future. Sun's president Jonathan Schwartz has repeatedly referred to the 'demise' and its troubled commitment to Intel's Itanium chip. Now, it seems, they've hit on a new idea. "We propose an alternative," writes McNealy in the letter, "that Sun and HP commit to converge HP-UX with Sun's flagship volume UNIX, Solaris 10.'
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> Other than the fact that Sun's double talk about Linux over the last few years has pissed off a large portion of the Systems Admin community who are the ones responsible for makinga and influencing these sort of decisions.
What double talking are you talking about? Sun's message in relation to Linux has been very consistent over the years -- Linux is a good thing on the low end, but Solaris makes more sense accross the board from low to high end. And I absolutely agree with that. It is just Linux zealots were mighty pissed off just because Sun refused to kiss the penguins ass while saying the truth and standing up for their products. I really respect Sun for not budging to the latest fad of the day and actually standing up for themselves and their products (Solaris in particular).
Edited 2006-03-05 23:26