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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)

Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)

Posted Sep 26, 2008 19:44 UTC (Fri) by oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to: Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times) by trasz
Parent article: Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)

> When we sum things up - no growth on desktops, decline in market share
on smartphones, IBM no longer trying to migrate it's customers to Linux
from their proprietary operating systems

Well, Linux share on all kinds of embedded devices (digi-TVs, NAS etc) and
subnotebooks would seem to be growing, wouldn't it? And these segments
have faster growth rates than desktop computers I think.

> - it may be possible that the future will be Microsoft and Apple.

Future of what?


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