Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 14th Jan 2007 23:36 UTC, submitted by kloty
"There are dozens of articles like this one on the net. Over and over people suggested solutions like this for different reasons and although I know that such thing probably won't happen any time soon, from my point of view now it is the best moment ever in the history of both operating systems to merge in a one powerful alliance. And the hell has already frozen over, hasn't it? First I will give short description of both OSes, so we can see the strong and the weak sides of them and see if the combination should eliminate the shortcomings and make the good points even better." Update: Sun is giving out free Solaris 10 DVD sets.
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I swear a very similar article was posted to OSNews about two or three years ago. The article argued that Sun should buy Apple. Neither article is very convincing. Apple's target market and SUN's target market do not overlap very much at all. Both are geared towards their respective markets and both are excellent products within their markets (technologically at least). Sure both products may benefit from some cross contamination but I don't see a huge benefit from completely uniting Solaris and OSX especially considering the amount of time and money it would take. Most desktop users would hardly notice a different kernel and most server admins couldn't care less about a pretty desktop. Besides GNOME is good enough at this point for SUN that it would be a a waste of resources to attempt to graft Aqua on top of the Solaris kernel. Apple may benefit more from a combination of technologies but not enough to significantly increase their marketshare. This is all just a geek's dream.