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Solaris 10 Released

Posted by timothy on from the a-siren-lost dept.

AusG4 writes "Sun Microsystems has released Solaris 10 for both SPARC and Intel/Opteron. Downloading it is the usual 'register and get your free license' meandering; the Intel/Opteron version is 4 CDs and an optional language and companion disc (a bunch of pre-compiled GNU software in pkgadd format, I'm assuming, same as Solaris 8 and 9)."

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  1. Sun who? by spagetti_code · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    flamebait on...
    Sun is becoming increasingly irrelevant in the server and enterprise space. They have known that for a while - hence their desperate moves to 'out GPL' linux with an apparentl big s/w giveaway.

    But I just dont see people giving up linux and moving to sun, instead I see the opposite. Small to mid sized accounts will increasingly see linux as the core to their infrastructure.

    Sun will hold large enterprise accounts for a while until Redhat or IBM really nail the enterprise feature set. Sun will also hold on to its hardware business for a while - but as google has shown, throwing gobs of cheap h/w at a problem is way more effective than high end servers.

    After that, its going to be bye bye sun.

    In fact, I predict Sun will become another linux vendor, just like IBM, Novell.... Resistance is futile, all your base are belong to us.