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Red Hat Set To Surpass Sun In Market Capitalization

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that's-a-milestone dept.

mytrip writes "In what may come to be seen as a deeply symbolic moment in the history of operating systems, Red Hat is on the verge of surpassing Sun Microsystems' market capitalization for the first time. Sun, perhaps unfairly, represents a fading Unix market. Red Hat, for its part, represents the rising Linux market. Given enough time for its open-source strategy to play out, Sun's market capitalization will likely recover and outpace Red Hat's."

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  1. Riiiight . . . by Ammin · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    A company whose sliding revenues continued to based primarily on overpriced Solaris workstations and servers that no one is buying is somehow going to magically "recover" by giving away Java or MySQL?

    There isn't enough time in eternity for that to happen. What will happen is that Sun will declare bankruptcy in the next year, liquidate everything related to Sparcs/Solaris/etc. and its MySQL and Java "businesses" spun off into something that will take years to reach Red Hat size.

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  2. So, how about GPL OpenSolaris now? by metamatic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The market is clearly choosing Linux over OpenSolaris. One way to combat that would be to make OpenSolaris GPL3. It would then attract open source developers, and have the bonus of ZFS support which Linux will continue to lack.

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