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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Re:Too late, too irrelevant

[KiloByte]

Not a client language? They put Javascript in every browser

Wrong emphasis. It's Javascript, not Javascript. It has nothing to do with Java except for Sun pushing the Java trademark everywhere, it's not compatible with Java, doesn't look like Java, doesn't smell like Java and, most important, doesn't require Java.

which is the basis of the Web 2.0, and that is changing everything.

Yeah, I admit, Javascript is the only extant widely-deployed client web language. Lots of folk, me included, boycott anything even remotely related to Flash, client-side Java is a bad joke, attempts to put Tcl in JavaScript's place are almost forgotten now (except for HTML4 still requiring explicit <script language=javascript> to make validators happy), ActiveX is fortunately on its way out, and SilverLight faces people who by now should recognize crap when they see it

It is obvious you don't know what you're talking about.

It is obvious that Sun's marketing machine managed to confuse you about relations of Java and Javascript. Score 1 for them.