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No Solaris 9 for x86
Jon writes: "Unsurprisingly, LinuxWorld is reporting that Sun is not going to support Solaris 9 on PCs. The article cites a marketing suit who claims that the prevailing economic conditions account for this."
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Now, is this just a typing error, or is Sun *that* good? ;)
Me, I must've peaked early.
-- Dan
What I gathered, especially from the register article, is that at least some of the vast numver users of x86 Solaris were not pleased at all. Appearently one had even put up a protest web site. I wonder if the other two also objected.
Time to celebrate that opensource has finally conquered x86. Where are the free beers we always talk about?
Just because win2K == NT5.0 doesn't mean that Win2K isn't more mature than NT4.
Because it is "just a version update" doesn't mean that it hasn't matured, i.e., is more stable and has more features.
However, this is off topic.
I do think that it is a shame that solaris will no longer be available, as I was hoping to download it for one of my old machines. Now I'll have to convince my wife we need a Sparc...
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You said it first, so you buy the first round.
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Now, how many folks read
Rough luck being you.
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