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Story: Sun's plans...and how they could go wrong
Posted by: Jimmy Stewpot (Friday 24 September 2004, 2:16 PM)
If sun are going to continue down this road its going to isolate them from die hard fans in the market. Many people see sun as being a fairly trustworth and reliable company. Having business plans like this will make them out to some as being more microsoftish. But at the same time this will play into many peoples alreaddy growing dislike of redhat and thier offerings at what many people see as being costly for a "free" os with patches and if you dont call support its an unbelievably expensive license.
With sun and operton it could really make inroads into the dedicated hosting market alot better than it would/could have with solaris + x86 on crap hardware. People can sell a True sun solution on X86-64. especially as v10 is meant to have true x86-64 instruction set support/optimisation (yet to be seen by myself).
In reality though the Wall street businesses are not going to be running that much linux at this stage. living and working as a system admin in london Ive not seen any of the UK companies adopt linux on a commercial level. Many use it for mail servers etc but thats not where the money is really at.
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Story: Sun's plans...and how they could go wrong
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Let me ask one question -- and it is not rhetorica... Jim Easter -
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Let me ask one question -- a... Tom Wittbodt -
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Name: Tom Wittbodt
Location: New Ha... GregF
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One 'flaw' in the plan you've not touched upon.
Se... No Tellin
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So Sun's strategic plan hinges upon lying about th... Anonymous
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a HUGE, HUGE company is going to succeed by attack... Anonymous
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I am an old timer (relatively speaking, graduated... Samudra E Haque
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A very clear admittance of weakness from Sun. Sun... dukeinlondon
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OH DEAR. Sun really HAVE lost the plot.
Does this... Anonymous
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This is unsubstantiated nonesense. Goodbye ZDNet -... Chris
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George,
I really enjoyed reading your article on Z... Anthony L. Awtrey
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If sun are going to continue down this road its go... Jimmy Stewpot -
2 things.
1.Linux is the kernel and no one ow... Ian S Rutter
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I work with Sun weenies who think that Linux is a... Mike
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There are many pieces to this puzzle. The author h... Pradeep
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It's quite funny to read things such as "...n... Anonymous
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SUN is very scared, they are a cornered animal, wh... Ian Michell
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I was laid off this year, my resume: http://resume... Krassimir Kamdjilov
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@Krassimir Kamdjilov
Location: Bronx, NY
Oc... anonymous
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I'll believe that Sun can out-engineer anything wh... Anonymous
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i wish sun would die and leave red hat alone. fuck... Corey Eiynck
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Red Hat = Linux AND Red Hat not = Linux ???
Recen... Anonymous
