Speaking of cheery spring stories, I guess I'll post this (which Rusty Johnson already posted on one of the MSFT threads) before one of the MicroSerfs does.
--QS
(Edit: One of them will probably repost it on this thread anyway--sort of a MSFT worshipper personality glitch thing. That, or they have me on ignore.)
economist.com
...The main loser (so far) as Linux advances is Sun Microsystems, one of the largest server vendors. Its Solaris software is generally deemed to be the most capable flavour of Unix, the family of powerful operating systems used in servers. But for many applications, Solaris is overkill, and Linux, a less capable flavour of Unix, is good enough. Many people who would once have bought expensive Sun boxes running Solaris are now running Linux on cheap, PC-like machines instead.
This has forced Sun to embrace the technology that threatens its existence. Last year, Sun launched its first Linux-based server. After several zigzags, it has now decided on its Linux strategy. As well as offering cheap boxes running Linux alongside its more powerful Solaris-based ones, Sun will include its server software with both Linux and Solaris, to make its Linux boxes more attractive and to allow users to “trade up” to Solaris. Even so, many in the industry believe that, thanks to Linux, Sun is doomed.
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