A Sun engineer on Linux
Posted Sep 23, 2004 17:21 UTC (Thu) by
rcbixler (guest, #11917)
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A Sun engineer on Linux by ami.ganguli
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A Sun engineer on Linux
> The question that Sun needs to answer is: do the advantages of sticking
> with (what is becoming) a niche OS outweigh the costs. It costs them in
> R&D budget, it costs them in hardware support, it costs them in
> application support.
I would be quite surprised if the figures really did add up, especially
since Sun's real bread-and-butter is their hardware. It strikes me that
Sun simply suffers from "Not Invented Here" syndrome.
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