Sun's Last Stand

non writes "Wired has an article by Gary Revlin in the July edition about the current state of affairs at Sun. He attributes half of Sun's problems to failure to recognize the emergence of Linux, and the other half to their failure to make up with Microsoft, and finishes up with a server price comparison. An interesting read."

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What???

[SuperDuG]

Didn't sun just release a news bite about how Linux is really only popular because people want unix on a pentium processor? I could have sworn it was because everyone likes Solaris so much and intel so much that Sun was hurting. Which was starting to (not) make sense, until I realized that sun already has Solaris for "pentium processors".

So wait a gosh darn minute here. Could it be that Sun really only runs well on extremely expensive hardware? Could it be that sun has horrible support for open standards (HTTP, LDAP, Mail, DNS ... iPlanet sucks, flat out).

Maybe it's because Linux actually has an active user-base, unlike Sun which is basically 30 - 40 something sys admins who got with Sun when they were the best Unix in town. There is no new sun blood because Sun is a PITA to work with if you're used to a linux system.

Then there's the packaging system, what the hell? What sun could learn from Apt and Rpm ...

Linux is dominant because it runs on almost everything and because it has a huge user base, not because people want solaris for (x86) pentium computers.

Sun goes away I won't be teary eyed