Re: Apple should buy SUN.

From: Malware Magnet (malware.vbs_at_windows.os)
Date: 11/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:04:22 -0600

On 2005-11-15, Mike Cox <mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com> i.e.; Fartfish wrote:
> SUN Microsystems announced today that their Studio 11 compiler is free to
> all users. Solaris 10, the premier UNIX system is open source under a
> Mozilla style license, the CDDL.
>
> Apple is the desktop leader in UNIX like operating systems. Their OS X is
> made for playing media, graphics and the desktop!

BWWWAAAHAAAHAAA!! Apple is the leader in *nothing* still clamoring for a
paultry 5% of the desktop market.

Just because it has a Darwin environment you can play with doesn't mean
anything. It only runs on Apple hardware, which is a *tremendous* detriment.

Sun under Apple would be a huge step backwards.

> Now imagine if Apple bought SUN and based OS X not on Darwin but Solaris
> 10? DTrace, and extreme scalability of the advanced UNIX Solaris would be
> available in an easy to use OS X desktop for everyone. Apple has awesome
> Java support, and if it owned SUN, it would own JAVA! It would also own
> the awesome Sun Studio 11.

Don't hold your fishy breath.

> Apple could be the supreme company if it aquired Sun. From handheld
> devices like the iPod to the Datacenter and the Desktop. The StorageTek
> aquisition by SUN would only strenghten Apples position.

Apple could be a supreme company if the OS was portable, but it isn't.
Right now, Apple is simply a gadget company - if it weren't for iPod, they'd
be in the tank.

Of course, Apple polishers swear by Apple and worship Steve Jobs, but good
PR doesn't mean supreme company.

http://www.slate.com/id/2127924/ 

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