Is Sun Turning against Linux and Red Hat?

An Elephant writes "Groklaw is reporting, based on a ZDNet UK story, that Sun's strategy for survival in the near future is based on trying to equate Linux with Red Hat, and then attack Red Hat as too small to support enterprises. This seems strange -- Sun is selling a Linux distro itself (the Java Desktop System). As I write this, there's no mention of this on Sun's website -- neither confirmation nor denial. What's going on?"

Comments

Yes...

[the_mad_poster]

Because Sun would certainly come out and say "Hey everybody! Look! We're going to start a smear campaign against xyz tomorrow! And we beat up small children and steal their milk money too!"

Christ...

Its plan? Attack Red Hat, use control over the operating system and the platform to disrupt competitors' pricing and business models, out-engineer everybody in the x86 space and use an alliance with Microsoft to fight a common enemy: IBM.

Oh my god! They're going to act like a company! Quick, run and hide!

Seriously, this idiotic, childish nonsense is exactly the reason that nobody likes to talk about Linux in any serious, business capacity. You have a couple success stories to tout, but Microsoft is still firmly in control of THE sweet spot of computing: the desktop market. Why? Because of crap like this entire stupid writeup.

If this had been about how to respond to a threat from Sun, or a mere analysis of Sun's business strategy (like the article is), that would be fine. This? This is crap. This is some submitter trying to shoot pimply-faced geeks' blood pressure up high enough to pop their zits just from reading Slashdot.

Honest to god... if you Linux zealots would just step back, take a breath, and F.O.C.U.S. on a goal, you'd be MUCH better off...

BuhBye

[maelstrom]

I am now cheering on your demise Sun.