Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 02, 2003 09:31 PM
Sun should have embraced Linux as IBM did.
Both companies sold expensive UNIX systems with proprietary software.
IBM chose not only to offer Linux on their systems, but to fully support it, and to move to make their proprietary UNIX (AIX 5L) more compatable with Linux.
Sun chose to give in to customer demand and offer Linux on some of their hardware, but only the x86 based hardware (even though other Linux distributors supported Sun hardware), and without any real support.
Sun still has a chance to hang on -- if they grab onto the Linux lifeboat instead of trying to poke holes into it.
I guess we'll have to wait and see what they decide to do...
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 02, 2003 09:31 PMBoth companies sold expensive UNIX systems with proprietary software.
IBM chose not only to offer Linux on their systems, but to fully support it, and to move to make their proprietary UNIX (AIX 5L) more compatable with Linux.
Sun chose to give in to customer demand and offer Linux on some of their hardware, but only the x86 based hardware (even though other Linux distributors supported Sun hardware), and without any real support.
Sun still has a chance to hang on -- if they grab onto the Linux lifeboat instead of trying to poke holes into it.
I guess we'll have to wait and see what they decide to do...
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