OT: Sun flirts with Ubuntu

[Collins Richey]

On 5/17/06, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

No wrath here. I happen to like Ubutu, but IMNSHO Sun has ZERO clues period.


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Collins Richey
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