Mickos, As New Sun Exec: Linux Will Stay In LAMP (InformationWeek) [LWN.net]

Mickos, As New Sun Exec: Linux Will Stay In LAMP (InformationWeek)

Posted Apr 10, 2008 23:03 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)
In reply to: Mickos, As New Sun Exec: Linux Will Stay In LAMP (InformationWeek) by mheily
Parent article: Mickos, As New Sun Exec: Linux Will Stay In LAMP (InformationWeek)

> They even support running Windows on their x86-based servers

Ah, has it come to that? The poor devils, they must be desperate....

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Poor devils?

Posted Apr 10, 2008 23:40 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

Just curious, to whom are you referring to when you mention "poor devils"?

AFAIK you can currently run Windows on an x86 architecture inside a virtual machine in Linux, so it seems Sun's white paper is making a redundant statement.

Different topic: Did anyone notice the troll-like comment from username "TIM" on the InformationWeek article? Quote:

What's with you guys freaks of Linux's???? Linux is nothing to me!!! Even if the world embrace LINUX I guartee you that I WILL NEVER GO THAT WAY [sic].

Fine. With an attitude like that, Linux users don't want you coming this way, either.

Poor devils?

Posted Apr 11, 2008 1:27 UTC (Fri) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

> Just curious, to whom are you referring to when you mention "poor devils"?

I was referring to the "they" in the sentence just above my statement. In other words, Sun.

Their current position, wherein they are playing nicely with microsoft, reminds me of a
similar situation with SGI, who once owned the high end desktop. They also fell on hard times,
and flirted with microsoft. a sad story indeed.

Poor devils?

Posted Apr 17, 2008 17:07 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link]

> Did anyone notice the troll-like comment from username "TIM" on the InformationWeek article?

I suspect that's probably a parody...