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Is Sun Turning against Linux and Red Hat?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the embrace-and-excommunicate dept.

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?"

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  1. Good god! Sun makes a heel turn! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sun has just nailed Red Hat and Linux with a steel chair! Oh no! It's SCO... and SCO is raising Sun's hand! What does this mean?! This can only be settled at Linuxmania!

  2. Baaahhhh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    /.ers never really needed sun anyway. Its all indoors and its nice here. Wait. Which sun are we talking about here?

  3. Re:turning linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I have also tried nearly every distro out there and finally settled upon debian which created apt. It just feels cleaner.... Gnomes does rock.

  4. Re:turning linux? by nihilogos · · Score: 2, Funny

    Type 'cat /dev/core' at a shell. Then see what you have to say about Red Hat.

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    :wq
  5. what?! by nomadic · · Score: 3, Funny

    As I write this, there's no mention of this on Sun's website -- neither confirmation nor denial. What's going on?"

    Are you serious?! Sun isn't posting their future strategies on a publicly accessible website?!?!? THAT'S INSANE!!

  6. Sun's plan in the short term by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    is to gradually lose all of their customers by taking the middle of the road in all cases, until they promptly run themselves out of business.

  7. Now your failure is complete by stinky+wizzleteats · · Score: 3, Funny

    By collapsing Linux into Red Hat, Sun now has a clear target. It can hammer away at a company, as opposed to waging the impossible task of fighting a social movement.

    Dear Red Hat,
    I bet the decision to abandon the social movement (Bluecurve, Fedora) and become a "clear target" looks a little different from where you stand now, doesn't it?

  8. Re:No surprise here... by metlin · · Score: 4, Funny

    The world of business makes for odd enemies and bedfellows.

    Absolutely! No Windows, no Sun... we geeks don't need this when we have Slashdot to bathe us in it's nice warm green light.

    Yummm. Usss likessses ittt.

  9. Who cares? by ikekrull · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sun have about as much chance of impacting Linux's momentum as SCO do.

    I mean, what are they gonna do, refuse to release the specs for their new CPUs so Linux can't run on them?

    I bet the managment at Redhat are losing lots of sleep over that.

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    I gots ta ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
  10. Re:turning linux? by sirReal.83. · · Score: 4, Funny

    Red Hat sells service contracts on top of 100% Free Software.
    Microsoft sells snake oil.

  11. Re:Death of commercial Unix flavours... by Kehvarl · · Score: 2, Funny

    but speaking of unixen boxen might annoyxen some peoplexen, and confusexen others... xen.