Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek) [LWN.net]

Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek)

Posted Sep 20, 2003 1:15 UTC (Sat) by vblum (subscriber, #1151)
Parent article: Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek)

Err .. if this man wanted to kill his product before it was even born, he did a truly superb
job. This desktop I will never consider, given the strong support the product enjoys with the
manufacturer's senior management.

Solaris on the server ... even if it were more stable, thats at the price of being
unadministerably cryptic to anyone but a long-trained engineer. (Yes, I've run Solaris,
Tru64, IRIX, Linuxes ...)

But is it more stable?? ... their famed NFS has a bug that allows a cleverly crafted request to
crash the server boom kabonk. A blatant security issue. There is no safe fix, but they
offered us to beta-test one. That was months ago.

Sun is going down in flames with that attitude towards its customers. If a senior guy does
not appreciate that his costumer base knows his products too, in comparison to the
competition, how seriously can you take them?

Sad to see all their great OpenOffice goodwill effort go to waste like that though .. someone
in that company will hate their colleague Schwartz after this interview, I guess.

bye bye sun

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