Sun Says OpenSolaris Will Challenge Linux

E5Rebel writes "Sun Microsystems has ambitious plans for the commercial and open source versions of its Solaris operating system. The company hopes to achieve for Solaris the kind of widespread uptake already enjoyed by Java. This means challenging Linux. 'There's an enormous momentum building behind Solaris,' according to Ian Murdock, chief operating platforms officer at Sun, who was chief technology officer of the Linux Foundation and creator of the Debian Linux distribution. Isn't it all a bit late?"

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OpenSolaris

[smittyoneeach]

OpenSolaris
Won't a new one tear us,
Unless they first
Have Ballmer chair us,
Great documentation--
Now that could scare us.
Burma Shave

Re:OpenSolaris

[Sponge Bath]

1:1:respawn:/etc/spagetty 9600 tty1

Re:OpenSolaris

[DeepZenPill]

Hey it was 320GB of some really freaky porn that nobody else was supposed to see. What he didn't realize is that the Truecrypt process took a look at it and decided he shouldn't be watching those movies either.

Re:OpenSolaris

[Anonymous Coward]

Spagetty is the guy at the sauna resort that tells you which one is your door.

"Isn't it all a bit late?"

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think so, but then again, I'm still holding out for an Amiga comeback.

Re:unix, funny name

[squiggleslash]

and letting the real enemy safely escape...

The Judean People's Front?

Re:unix, funny name

[supersnail]

No its the Peoples Front for Judea

Re:Too late, too irrelevant

[Anonymous Coward]

Not a client language? They put Javascript in every browser, which is the basis of the Web 2.0, and that is changing everything. It is obvious you don't know what you're talking about.

Re:unix, funny name

[squiggleslash]

Wait a moment, I thought we were the People's Front for Judea?

Re:unix, funny name

[IckySplat]

Splitter!

Re:What is the platform?

[gbjbaanb]

we want a lean c one...

Dr Tanenbaum, please come back.. all is forgiven :-)

Re:unix, funny name

[JudeanPeople'sFront]

Bloody Romans!

The TV Ad

[DynaSoar]

[To be read in that barely restrained anticipatory baritone half-growl so favored by TV and movie ad voice-overs]:

SATURDAYsaturday, at the WORLD SOFTWARE FEDERATION'S OPEN SOURCE WARS, see Son of Java take on the Mighty Herd of Penguins in a STEEL CAGE GRUDGE MATCH!

Watch as the up and coming challenger ROARS its defiance and CHARGES! Watch as the hoard of cute little defenders mass together TRANSFORMER-LIKE into the implacable foe we know and love!

Will OpenSolaris be able to take the away the WSF crown away from Tux?

Will the Penguin bide its time and then DESTROY the challenger with righteousness like it did with last week's challenger SCO?

Will the lumbering, slumbering giant from Redmond wake up and SPEW OLD CODE to join the fight or will it continue to snooze and pretend NOT TO NOTICE?

SATURDAYsaturday, see the UNMOVABLE FORCE take on the UNSTOPPABLE OBJECT at the OPEN SOFTWARE WARS from the WSF, where YOU the VIEWER are in... connnTROOOLLLLLLLL.........

(Offer not valid in any country according to Microsoft; side effects may include multiple reformattings, several competing discussion groups, too many vaporware announcements on Slashdot, flamewars, and paying different prices for different versions of free software; for external use only, your mileage may vary, do not taunt Happy Fun Ball).

Re:unix, funny name

[mikael]

... And the Judean Popular People's Front