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

To: JC Jaros who wrote (11176)	9/29/1998 8:35:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 64865

Hi JC - I received my SOLARIS X86 software and I am finding that device drivers are lacking. In fact I can find more Linux drivers available for their OS than for SOLARIS! However, Sunw's customer service was very good (ug!). I am considering dumping my Solaris project and buying the Red Hat Linux product. Perhaps after I have the Linux up and running, Solaris will have the necessary devise drivers for me to migrate to their OS. Did you see this announcement yesterday: Intel, Netscape Back Linux Vendor (http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980929S0013) "...Linux, the free version of Unix, got a boost Tuesday when Intel and Netscape announced investments in Red Hat, the leading Linux vendor..." Sun better watch their back!! From the article: "...Red Hat president Robert Young said it would use the funds to create an Enterprise Computing division. In a statement, Young said Red Hat would pursue enterprise contracts with large corporations. The market for mission-critical applications is currently dominated by Solaris, Sun's version of Unix, with Microsoft's Windows NT as the rising challenger..." ===================================================================== Sunw needs to set a standard that for every devise driver that Linux supports they will support PLUS one! From my contacts here in Silicon Valley, there are 10:1 requests for devise drivers for Linux than for Solaris! I am concerned about this finding and hope our management has the answers. Perhaps, they plan to sell hardware to all those Linux users rather than working on getting them to use Solaris. EKS