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Sun expands Unix deal with SCO (News.com)Sun expands Unix deal with SCO (News.com)Posted Jul 11, 2003 17:39 UTC (Fri) by dwalters (subscriber, #4207)Parent article: Sun expands Unix deal with SCO (News.com) This might turn out to be a mistake for Sun. In getting cozy with SCO, Sun is backing a losing horse, and this news is likely to annoy many of the techies in the Unix/Linux world that have a large say in hardware buying decisions (and if you look at sysadmin responses on Slashdot about this news, you'll see what I mean - blade server proposals being dropped, for example). It appears that McNealy still does not have the vision to foresee the inevitability of the inexorable rise of GNU/Linux. It you ignore all the FUD for the moment, and look at the facts; the big Japanese consumer electronics makers, one government after the next, etc., all adopting GNU/Linux, it's hard not to arrive at the conclusion that GNU/Linux will prevail even in the face of all the negative publicity. McNeally, wake up! If you want Sun to survive you should take a leaf out of IBM's book. Sun needs to be a Linux-friendly hardware company, not a Unix company.
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Sun expands Unix deal with SCO (News.com) Posted Jul 11, 2003 20:30 UTC (Fri) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] Sun has had a long history of cutting its nose off to spite its face. I think that this in 10 years time will be another one of those failed attempts. They screwed themselves over with OpenWindows, then Java, and now it looks like Solaris. I have found that many/most of the developers I know there are great people doing really cool work. The people who run the business scare sharks.
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