Apparantly, Apple is interested in porting Sun Solaris' ZFS to Mac OS X. From the zfs-discuss mailinglist: "Chris Emura, the Filesystem Development Manager within Apple's CoreOS organization is interested in porting ZFS to OS X. For more information, please e-mail him directly at [email address]. Speaking for the zfs team (at Sun), this is great news and we fully support the effort."
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Member since:2005-11-16
Exactly. No need to buy-out to collaborate.
Apple didn't spend billions on a BSD company to build OSX on BSD.
Also, from my point of view, Sun is a much bigger and more influential _technology_ company than Apple, while Apple is a giant in the consumer market, it doesn't make sense for one to buy another, neither has the capability.
However, it makes lot of sense for them to collabroate on the OS side, it would be a win-win situation.
Sun does not "sell" Solaris, they sell enterprise services for systems. Even if Apple makes a "better Solaris than Solaris" by migrating to Solaris kernel but keeping the UI technology, it doesn't have the capabilty to service the kind of enterprise environment that Sun has been supporting.
In the end, more people will use OSX on the desktop/workstation and more people will use Solaris on enterprise servers. That's what I call win-win.
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2006-02-10
Market Cap alone won't determine one company's ability to purchase another. Although I'd be all for some sort of collaborative merger between Sun's server-oriented expertise and Apple's desktop prowess.