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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. who cares? by f00zy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That's the beauty of the thing. It just doesn't matter. Embrace it or don't. No one cares. A setting Sun makes a headline, but it still fades below the horizon.

  2. Ye Olden Days by catwh0re · · Score: 1, Redundant
    MS trying to turn the industry into the olden days, where linux wasn't around.

    I like how the story articulates that sun is trying to avoid being a powerless drone... When it's clear they have become a powerless drone via MS, and hence are just the next step in MS's plan.

    Step 1. MS get SCO to do bidding
    Step 2. MS get Sun to do bidding

    I notice that SGI comes between SCO and SUN in the phone book.. so yay for SGI.

    Also I notice MS bought SAP. Maybe they just like S?? companies?