It's only a matter of time ...

It's only a matter of time ...

Posted Sep 20, 2003 2:58 UTC (Sat) by dwalters (subscriber, #4207)
Parent article: Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek)

It's only a matter of time before Solaris is just an interesting historical relic, and GNU/Linux is the only serious game in town.

Jonathan Schwartz obviously doen't see the writing on the wall (neither does McNealy).

I can see two possible eventual outcomes:

1. About 5-years from now, Sun no longer exists, or it will be in very serious financial difficulty and will be on the verge of going out of business. If they stick stubbornly to their current attitude, pushing Solaris on the server, they're just flogging a dead horse.

2. About 5-years from now, Sun will have transformed itself into a true Open Source friendly-company, and will be thriving on the back of GNU/Linux on the client AND the server. Look, Sun DOES, at this point, still have the potential to go down this path. It's still not too late for them. They should take a look at IBM; they're not so different from IBM in may ways.

At the end of the day, I believe that even McNealy will (reluctantly) see the light, and follow path 2. He's a free-market libertarian, and he says he's not "the emotional type", so he'll choose the path that makes sense for the survivial and profitability for his company.

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