Sun Steps Back from Linux JDS

chill writes "ZD Net UK is reporting that Sun is pulling back from their JDS desktop Linux initiative. The big question is what happened to those half-million to million-plus units that were supposed to ship in China in 2004? One hint may be that in April, Novell announced a deal with CSSC to 'cooperate to provide technology, services and marketing to optimise and promote Linux to the Chinese market.' Sun's JDS was based on SUSE Linux, now owned by Novell."

Comments

Re:How is Sun making any money these days?

[misaochankun]

Sun still runs things like oracle rather well. A lot of big companies continue to run Sun to keep their precious oracle databases running in a somewhat reliable manner. While Linux on hefty hardware can run oracle, and oracle in windows is a joke, you'd really need to bump up to Intel 64bit to really get close to how solaris can do it.
But that's about all I see solaris good for lately. Everything else is run a lot cheaper and faster on linux.

Re:How is Sun making any money these days?

[Decaff]

You need only check their website.

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/investor/earnings_rele ases/pr/2005-q2.html

Sales of software, operating systems, Sparc and x86 servers, and providing services.

Re:This was inevitable

[Cally]

Obviously you wouldn't want to run Linux on a massive 64 processor server

Actually sir... that's not... entirely... true.