"Perhaps the changing of the guard at Sun Microsystems was no shock to some. Now pundits can dish over whether or not it will be the start of a new era at Sun - and one that might mean more collaboration with Microsoft."
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Member since:2005-10-09
I don't think Sun needs to "emulate Apple" in this sense. Sun is already quite obviously anti-Linux. They flirted with it (Linux) shortly at one point in time, but very quickly they went back to the old Solaris or nothing stance. I'm glad.
Go read the OSOL mailing lists, you'll see quite plainly various things from Linux getting shot down (very, very few things survive even as ideas).
In other words, one thing you need not worry about is Sun paying much (if any) attention to Linux. 
They'll let you order systems with Linux installed, but that's about it. You can't blame them for that, there is (some) demand apparently, and their sales go up by allowing it. (Some people won't buy a server unless it's got the latest buzzword OS installed on it..)
[Edit: To make sure I'm clear, keep in mind I am saying Linux, as in the kernel - NOT the distributions. A lot of ideas from the Linux distributions get kicked around and acknowledged as good.]
Edited 2006-04-26 22:45
Member since:2005-07-06
I don't think Sun needs to "emulate Apple" in this sense. Sun is already quite obviously anti-Linux. They flirted with it (Linux) shortly at one point in time, but very quickly they went back to the old Solaris or nothing stance. I'm glad.
Its not about being anti-Linux, its simply getting on, and just don't even acknowledge the existance of Linux; when Solaris gets compared; compare it to Windows and other UNIX's; when comparing their middleware software offerings, compare them to other commercial vendors.
Its the old story, "I'll let the other joker do what ever he wants, because quite frankly, we're more concerned about delivering solutions to our customers that meet their needs in the real world" - that is what should be the underlying mantra; not comparisons with accomodations with Linux.
What Solaris need to do; stop providing Linux 'emulation' and start getting out there, and PAYING software companies to port NATIVE applications to Solaris - bugger emulation, go for native!
Approach a company, sign them up, hand over the cash, and get the software producing ball rolling; once people see Solaris 10, see the servers and workstations available AND the share volume of software available for the Solaris x86 platform, it would be a hard thing to resist given its competitive pricing.
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2006-01-11
The only way out for Sun is to emulate Apple, just make Solaris the best OS there is for Servers and stop paying attenttion to Linux - there's NO need for yet another Linux vendor. Apple doesn't pay any attention to linux - they ddidn't announce Linux support in Bootcamp, they didn't announce support for Linux with any of their apps like iTMS or iPod support, so seems like ignoring Linux is the way to go and not get swallowed up by the opensourcers. I pity Novell, MySQL, JBoss and all Microsoft wanna be's