OT: Sun flirts with Ubuntu

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6073104.html
>
> While this doesn't necessarily prove anything. It lends credence to two notions:
>
> - Ubuntu is viewed (more and more) as a serious distro and expected to
> have staying power - There is room for an alternative distro and an
> alternative business model (commercial-but-free vs.
> commercial-but-pricey vs noncommercial-but-free)

At the risk of incurring Collins ire for not speaking highly of Ubuntu,
I'll toss in my 2 cents.  Sun has ZERO Linux clues.  I work with them
nearly every day on Linux & Solaris issues and these guys couldn't pick a
decent Linux distro if their lives depended on it.  I'm afraid that the
fact that Sun is flirting with Ubuntu doesn't really mean much of
anything.

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