I agree, I shall switch to Open Office as soon as they firm up the announcement, SO6 will not be installed even on my UltraSparc 5. I wonder if any opensource developers will ever trust Sun again. Sun is really about selling SPARC running Solaris, Linux and anything else is a necessary evil - "Linux on Mainframes don't make sense", "Sun will supply Linux on Intel based servers for EDGE services". You get the distinct impression that there is a concerted campaign to rubbish Linux whilst saying they've nothing to fear from it. They intend to supply Linux in low end applications, convince customers that it's no good for much else and hopefully set them up as Solaris converts. If you've seen and understood the utter rubbish they give out about mainframes, you can see they are hurting under the weight of the competition and clutching at straws.
I don't know what Sun really thinks, they are all over the place on their thoughts. Mr. McNeally never misses an opportunity to knock the Mainframe as obsolescent technology, yet Sun's current technology takes you back to the mainframes of the early 1980's. I also hear that mainframes are soooooo expensive, yet we look envious at the cost and maintenance prices paid for Sun equipment that largely act as front-ends to the mainframe workhorse. You don't get those sorts of prices for mainframes. My guess is that Sun is seeing unaccustomed competition coming from equipment that's decades ahead in design, performance, resiliance, maintainability and reliability. Ever noticed there is never a reasoned argument, we see throw-away comments with flippant use of words like "obsolete", "dying", "old", etc. in sentenses that read more like phrases. Regards
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I agree, I shall switch to Open Office as soon as they firm up the announcement, SO6 will not be installed even on my UltraSparc 5. I wonder if any opensource developers will ever trust Sun again. Sun is really about selling SPARC running Solaris, Linux and anything else is a necessary evil - "Linux on Mainframes don't make sense", "Sun will supply Linux on Intel based servers for EDGE services". You get the distinct impression that there is a concerted campaign to rubbish Linux whilst saying they've nothing to fear from it. They intend to supply Linux in low end applications, convince customers that it's no good for much else and hopefully set them up as Solaris converts. If you've seen and understood the utter rubbish they give out about mainframes, you can see they are hurting under the weight of the competition and clutching at straws.
I don't know what Sun really thinks, they are all over the place on their thoughts. Mr. McNeally never misses an opportunity to knock the Mainframe as obsolescent technology, yet Sun's current technology takes you back to the mainframes of the early 1980's. I also hear that mainframes are soooooo expensive, yet we look envious at the cost and maintenance prices paid for Sun equipment that largely act as front-ends to the mainframe workhorse. You don't get those sorts of prices for mainframes.
My guess is that Sun is seeing unaccustomed competition coming from equipment that's decades ahead in design, performance, resiliance, maintainability and reliability.
Ever noticed there is never a reasoned argument, we see throw-away comments with flippant use of words like "obsolete", "dying", "old", etc. in sentenses that read more like phrases.
Regards