Screw Sun

Screw Sun

Posted Jul 30, 2003 21:52 UTC (Wed) by dwalters (subscriber, #4207)
In reply to: Screw Sun by sandy_pond
Parent article: Sun Sees Road To Prosperity Paved With Its Own Products (TechWeb)

You make some good points. Like you say, we'll have to wait and see.

It seems to me that Schwartz's statement really boils down to the fact that Sun prefers to roll its own desktop/workstation distribution of GNU/Linux, rather than depend on any other vendor's distribution (Red Hat), and they're certainly not going to depend on Microsoft for providing an OS.

But if PC makers are indeed going to be bundling Mad Hatter on their hardware, then surely it's going to be a "cookie-cutter" desktop OS to some extent (inasmuch as Red Hat Linux is one, for example), in order to work with standard PC hardware.

I can't believe that it's going to be in Sun's interest to "embrace and extend" (i.e. copy, then make incompatible) GNU/Linux. Rather, their version will be as standards compliant as any other distribution (it'll be LSB, for sure). Sure they'll have proprietary extensions, but what commercial distribution doesn't?

What I also read from Schwartz's statement, is that it looks like Sun is going to push Mad Hatter on their Sparc (non-Intel) workstations too. Good; even more GNU/Linux on desktops.

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