Google switching to Solaris?!

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006, Net Llama! wrote:
>> I wouldn't read much into this until google is confirming the rumor,
>> rather than Sun's FUD dept just screaming about it in their ongoing
>> desperate attempt to prove that Solaris is still relevant.
>
> Tom Yager's column in this weeks Infoworld discusses Sun's rise
> in the UNIX marketplace over the last year.
>
> 	http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/09/13/38OPcurve_1.html
>
> Personally I haven't looked at Open Solaris, and my Sparc IPX is
> sitting under a table gathering dust so I can't say anything
> about the pros and cons of Solaris these days.  I do know that
> Sun has considerable expertise in Enterprise UNIX solutions, and
> shouldn't be ignored.

I doubt that Linus cares much about Sun.  With the demise of IRIX, the 
UNIX field continues to narrow.  Sun ensured that Solaris will survive by 
opening it, but beyond that, I'm not really convinced that Sun has all 
that many clues on how to deal with the Linux threat.  Internally, they've 
got some rather severe problems, including how to simultaneously market 
convince people that Solaris is more industrial strength than Linux & 
Windows, all the while trying to sell their non-Sparc hardware to a broad 
audience.  They've also got some stability problems on some of 
their non-Sparc systems.

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