Inprise (the old Borland) has moved to work with Solaris, which may mean a Delphi Linux version may someday be available (a wild speculation/wish on my part...) but I've heard rumours that MS gets very upset with vendors that support Linux over NT.
The Inprise press release is on their website, inprise.com and starts as follows:
DENVER -- Aug. 11, 1998 -- Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq: INPR) announced today that it has entered
into a strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to team Inprise's development
technologies with the Sun SolarisT operating environment. Corporations will be able to take
advantage of Inprise's familiar and graphically appealing tools for building and running enterprise
applications on the robust and scalable Solaris operating environment. Today's announcement was
made in a keynote address by Dr. Alan Baratz, president of Java Software at Sun Microsystems, to
the 3,000 IT attendees of the annual Inprise Conference, ICON '98, being held here this week.
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(sorry I didn't remove the hard formating..)
and the discusion of MS arm-twisting is
" Wednesday April 29, 1998
Caldera CEO Says MS Threatening PC Makers
Microsoft is threatening to suspend the contract of a major computer manufacturer in a
dispute over bundling Linux, says Caldera CEO Brian Sparks. "
at ssc.com and
zdnet.com
Question: Is Compaq afraid of MS, and might they support Linus (OS in box & service)? |
