SCO fizzles

[Collins Richey]

On 24 Aug 2003 20:45:45 -0400
burns <linux at burnsmacdonald.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 19:27, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
> > Sun is between a rock and a hard place right now, as they despise
> > M$, yet fear Linux.  They're not sure whether they want to fight a
> > two fronted war at the moment, so they're riding the fence.
> 

> Sun views their niche to be a very large share of the mid-high end
> Enterprise market. This is not an area where Linux has been a strong
> threat. 

Underline "has not been."  This is now changing due to the IBM effort.

Any company large enough to consider IBM Z series mainframes is going to
think twice about the headaches of running a traditional server farm of
unix or linux boxes.  The simplicities of scaling up processing power
as needed and the ability to run thousands of server images on a Z
series with not much more effort than a handful is going to eat Sun's
lunch in its traditional, profitable mid-high-end niche

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.