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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?"
*clang*
Oh, its just a Ferrari.
I'm a troll because I like to use correct spelling and grammar! wud j00 r4th3r meh tlk lik dis?
they could be WASTING time.
would be interesting to see them caressing the waist of SCO or IBM though..
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 96% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. And most recently, due to problems with his professional behavior and conflicts with other developers, Matt Dillon, "the guy most responsible for making FreeBSD 4.x the most rugged and stress-proof free operating system in existence," was unceremoniously banned from developing FreeBSD and now spends his days tinkering with XBox modchips. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users, or 36399 with Dillon's departure. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
What did the German clockmaker say to the clock that went 'tick, tick, tick'?
"Ve haff vays to make you tock!"
Please Read This to see what YOU Americans owe France for their help in YOUR war of independence.
My favourite piece?
Remember this, the next time you take the pledge of allegiance - If it wasn't for the French you'd all be singing 'God save the Queen'.
Toodle pip
I don't think I'm very happy. I always fall asleep to the sound of my own screams.
Of course, if it wasn't for us and the Brits (and others) during World War II, France would be Germany South right now. I think that we are at least even.
"I think that when you become a Republican, you don't get to score any more." -- Butt-head
Be careful. Talking about Debian and 'politically pure' is likely to get your comment modded down here. A post in this topic about the HURD got marked down as offtopic earlier.
manyoso writes "Sun is waisting no time...
Dude, a waist is what you strap your pants around, and worry about it growing larger. The word "waste" or "wasting" means to expend carelessly or thoughtlessly. This is what you're doing to the english language.
Even if this was manyoso's error, that is why there are editors that edit the published content before they are published.
Perhaps /. can take up a collection to send Taco back to grammar school.
- passion
IBM surrenders
David only won because God supported him.
Yep,it was supposed to be a one vs one fight but David (and God) cheated. Somehow David gets remembered as the hero, proving that history gets written by the winning side.
The only appropriate place for an apostrophe is normally where something is abbreviated:
The above are correct. Other uses of apostrophes like: are all incorrect.Easy rule: if something's left out, use an apostrophe; if nothing's left out, don't.
The IPCC has purposely engineered a massive scientific fraud.
This is propaganda of the most disgusting kind.
First of all, the end tag for bolding is this: . Feel free to use it. Second, don't think that I didn't notice that racial slur disguised as "laughter." That's against this companies values and mission statement. Come on, fella. Pack up your desk and get out of my office. You're fired. Goodbye, I won't miss YOU.
(See, I used your own end line against you. Man, I'm good at firing people.)
Working the tire off, huh?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.