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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)Posted Sep 25, 2008 19:33 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)Parent article: Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)
Depressing -- we don't need that kind of language from someone in his position. It's reminiscent of what Microsoft would say about Linux, before their deal with Novell.
Note that actual kernel hackers tend not to make these kind of claims. The OpenBSD flames by Linus are actually funny, and obviously not meant to be taken too seriously.
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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times) Posted Sep 25, 2008 20:43 UTC (Thu) by xaoc (guest, #54140) [Link]
'"The future is Linux and Microsoft Windows," says foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. "It is not Unix or Solaris...'
That sentence sounds really awkward to me.
Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times) Posted Sep 25, 2008 22:28 UTC (Thu) by vmole (guest, #111) [Link] He's using the word "Unix" in its proprietary/licensed system meaning, as a code for all the various proprietary Unixes, like AIX, etc.
Unix is tradmarked Posted Sep 26, 2008 11:09 UTC (Fri) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]
Unix is trademarked term for officially licensed operating systems. The correct term for Linux is that it is a broadly POSIX compliant operating system. The propriety Unix's are also POSIX operating systems. It's often corrupted when people refer to Unix-like systems.
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