Re: How to save SUN. If you work for SUN, read my ideas!

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer_at_rite-group.com)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:50:54 GMT

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Mike Cox wrote:

> Solaris should be completely compatibly with Linux, and the next
> versions should be branded as such. For example, Solaris_LX would be

Bah - Linux is a moving target. Even different releases of it aren't
necessarily compatible with each other.

> a good name (feel free to use it!). Make the default tools GNU and
> also have kernel developers start working on Linux putting SUN kernel
> expertise into it. Then be totally agnostic on which OS customers
> prefer to run. Make sure Linux runs on EVERY sun machine!

Making Solaris 100% Linux compatible would be easy: rip out most
of the enterprise class features, scalability, and so on, and the
job is almost done.

In the meantime,

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