Wal-Mart and Sun share Linux desktop lust (Register)

Posted Mar 26, 2004 18:16 UTC (Fri) by vblum (guest, #1151)
In reply to: Wal-Mart and Sun share Linux desktop lust (Register) by flewellyn
Parent article: Wal-Mart and Sun share Linux desktop lust (Register)

They can't come out and say, this Linux is better than our Solaris else their server market is gone, they can't come out and say it's as good, else their server market is gone, they can't come out and say "Linux is worse than Solaris" else why would they be so stupid as to sell Linux instead of Solaris to anyone?

But they think they can say, We have this great Solaris OS for the server and this great Java OS for the desktop - both are different and have different target audiences. It's a marketing dilemma.

Sun is in a deep hole with its split-personality Solaris-Linux strategy - Solaris loses against Linux in terms of overall ease of use, price tag, and versatility, but Solaris+Servers is what they have left to distinguish themselves from anyone else. It's a lost battle for them...