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Sun Rethinking Linux Strategy Over SCO Lawsuit
manyoso writes "Sun is waisting no time taking advantage of the SCO lawsuit against IBM. They are making statements trying to play up Solaris as a safe harbor for worried Linux and IBM users. John Loiacono, VP of Sun's operating platforms group, "For people looking at the issues at hand, we are a safe harbor. We have absolute rights to our technology ... We're changing our strategy around Linux (but) we're pausing because we're trying to figure out what the implications of this are going to be". So, this begs the questions... What are the short term implications for the new Linux based desktop we've been hearing about from our fair weather friends? How will the SCO lawsuit affect Sun's long term strategy with Linux and Open Source?"
They'll be bought out by IBM or Oracle within a year.
First SCO turns its back on Linux. Now, Sun. We're watching the extinction of the dinosaurs.
but i won't be buying them in the future. if they're happy to burn one bridge, how do i know they won't burn a bridge that is critical to my company?
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We're not up in arms because SCO is trying to protect it's IP.
"We" are up in arms becuase SCO is making a spurious claim. They might as well say the same thing about Windows NT.
This is very true, and 95% of /.'ers don't realize this. In the enterprise, in large corporate server rooms, Linux is considered a toy operating system. Always was, and even with support of the likes of IBM it will remain a low end OS for many years to come. It's not just image and entrenched interests. It's a fact. That the Solaris sysadmin runs Linux on the workstation under his desk is irrelevant. That some 2-bit web front end is running Linux is irrelevant. That marketing is running Postgres for something irrelevant.
All the heavy lifting is done by Solaris and HPUX and AIX. There is no place for Linux there. Database, monitoring, provisioning, ticketing, application, security, and many many more, there's no Linux in sight. No one in their right mind would put anything that needs 99.99 uptime (or even 99%) on a Linux system. Not. gonna. happen.