[Many things could happen. Even the possibility, god forbid, of MSFT and SUNW working together. ]
Hi Junior Balloon!
See post to me, (12188) from Xy Zhao. The post refers to an interview with Masood Jabbar, president of SUNW"s Compueter Systems Division.
[ Mr. Jabbar said, "Most of my customers have a heterogeneous environment, and I've got to find a way to interoperate with them," Jabbar said.
As part of this new willingness to recognize the customer's right to choose the Wintel option, Jabbar said Sun has licensed a Windows NT 4.0 kernel through AT&T Advanced Server for Unix.
"We have gone and licensed from AT&T the NT 4.0 services layer. It's not NT 4.0, the entire OS; there's a service layer that sits on top of 4.0 that allows you to authenticate, that gives you access to directory services, gives you an access for shared services.
"We were doing a pretty good job of servicing an NT client from a Solaris server, but it was very hard to co-exist in the NT-dominated server environment, and drop a Solaris server in there, because we could not authenticate off a Solaris server. But this technology allows us to do that. So now, for example, I have large customers that had over 800 NT domain servers. By dropping a Solaris server in there, we can cut that (number) in at least half," Jabbar claimed.
He said that one of Sun's strengths is the ability to run multiple applications, thereby allowing the elimination of servers. "NT today doesn't run multiple services on a single server; it doesn't run multiple applications on a single server. Well, that's what we do
best, OK?"
Despite having licensed the Windows 4.0 services layer, Jabbar still contends that Windows is not an open platform, saying that Sun's platform is every bit as open, if not more so." ]
I don't understand the significance of "an open platform" but I know my husband agrees with Mr. Jabbar's opinion that Windows is not an open platform.
Also, I read recently that SUNW signed an an agreement with Intel. Thought it had to do with Intel's new chip. You could always looks for information on Sun's homepage, although someone here may recall the agreement.
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