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

To: QwikSand who wrote (28626)	3/8/2000 2:35:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

IBM is losing it. Yesterday, they (as if there is a cohesive IBM entity) went off on this ridiculous rant against the proprietary world of M$ and Sun and how they (M$ and Sun) were 'fighting fate' by refusing to embrace the open source movement (Linux). It's ridiculous on several levels, not the least of which is - how stupid does IBM think people are? Sun has provided FAR more 'open' (source code and otherwise) than IBM has. Sun makes their OS code available to their customers and the Linux community. IBM does that with AIX do they? How about OS/2? No? Sun gives away an office suite. IBM does that too with Lotus? No? Sun is actively working with the community and Linux distros on higher availabilty, more robust Linux. IBM is talking proudly that Linux might be worthy of overtaking their Monterey x86 Unix (OS #27) in 5 years (this same guy). Sun is linking multiple Linux distros from their web site and has made Solaris 8 so that the boot loader does *both. IBM did that too? No? Sun has given Solaris and Linux great free Java development tools, and has co-developed a JVM worthy of Linux inclusion by the major distributions. IBM did too? No? But IBM sells their x86 servers bundled with Linux, right? No? Surely they work at making their Thinkpad laptops Linux friendly. Not that either, eh? I'm beginning to think that Microsoft 'get's it' about Linux more than IBM does. silicon.com Today, it's more subtle. Today they've contained their desperation to a banner graphic. Here, in advertising an ASP developer event, they used our solar system as a motif. Notice though that the solar system according to IBM has the SUN only NEAR the middle, much smaller, less yellow and dramatically off center. <g> 209.207.224.220 Copernicus be damned! :) -JCJ