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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (Info World)

Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (Info World)

Posted Sep 25, 2008 19:37 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
Parent article: Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)

Actually this is a reprint of an Infoworld article, it's not by anyone on the NY Times staff.

Too many of the Linux Foundation people sound just like corporate spokespeople in their statements. They think of themselves as in the Linux Company, out to beat the corporate competition.


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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (Info World)

Posted Sep 27, 2008 16:49 UTC (Sat) by emk (guest, #1128) [Link]

Yeah, I'm also saddened by these remarks. While I have no particular interest in Solaris as an operating system (aside from features like DTrace), Sun has certainly contributed to the community. And they do distribute OpenSolaris under an OSI-approved license.

This is a tasteless and inapprorpriate jab from the Linux Foundation. It's no more attractive coming from Linux people than it is from companies who've made similar jabs about Linux.

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