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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (18250)	7/28/1999 1:50:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Sun DIDN'T renege just because the new Alliance Netscape server isn't being ported to Linux. Sun didn't say they were going to port their server software to Linux. They said that Linux was an important platform for their servers, or something similar. Not porting software to Linux doesn't reflect on Sun's commitment to Linux. A Linux port doesn't make any business sense whatsoever. They're folding Net Dynamics into the Netscape server in the next release. This interim release has ports to Win32, HP/UX and DEC Unix (+ AIX?) I think, because they are targeting legacy systems. Linux is not a legacy platform. I think the Sun spokesperson was sincere in saying that there hasn't been enterprise demand for Netscape server on Linux. Most all Linux servers run Apache. -JCJ