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Sun to Sell Unbundled Solaris 9
An anonymous reader writes "Sun VP John Loiacono told eWEEK that the company is scrapping its plan to limit Solaris 9 support to Sun x86 hardware. Loiacono said the version for non-Sun hardware will retail for $99 for a single CPU and that the company is committed to supporting both Sun and non-Sun hardware in the future. Sun will also publicize the compatibility test suite it used internally, and said it may ultimately open the code for the product to the open source community."
Ok . You maybe right , but consider that Sun is a company and NOT an Open Source movemment or something simmilar , also to worsen thing have a look at the lastest events on 64-bit market , seems that is going to be a reall overkill on the comming years from both AMD and Intel , Ultra is fadding out bit by bit , the latest bet of Sun ( in the long run ) is Java and J2EE . Everything in Sun history (not even Sun , maybe all major commpanies ) looks like drug dealer game , that is the market game I'm affraid
Fuck .NOT , their solutions are always based on M$ tech , which is for desktops only , not the server market . Solaris IS the server market . Besides .NOT is still vaporware .
Solaris is extraordinarily well-written. It's better than BSD code, which is itself much better than linux kernel code. I'm glad Sun is making this great OS (partly derived from BSD heritage and SYSV heritage) available for the ubiquitous PC. With commercial Solaris and freely available FreeBSD, there is no reason to run linux other than not knowing there are better choices.