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

From: Canh chua ca (jabailo_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 04/30/04


Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:37:46 GMT

Mike Cox wrote:

> I think I have a solution to SUN's problem in the market place. If
> SUN adopted the same position as IBM did with its AIX, SUN would turn
> around. Let me explain. First SUN should make a Linux affinity
> program with SOLARIS the same way IBM did with AIX 5L.

Mike, obviously you read the same Yahoo and Google tech headlines as the
rest of us -- and today there was a whole plethora of 'Sun is dead'
articles.

Nothing could be further from the truth for this 11 Billion a year
company. All that has happened is that Sun has been transformed from a
hardware and Unix company to an Object Oriented Platform company.

No wonder Sun is the envy of Microsoft's /eye/

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



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