The whole reason for buying any hardware is applications. If you applications run on Solaris only (or preferably; as this does happen) then that is what you buy.
Out of curiosity I priced out Sun's entry workstation (SunBlade 150) and the SunPCIII Pro Coproccessor Card (basically PC on a card with AMD Athlon XP
1600+ 256MB PC2100 onboard memory (SODIMM) 24 bit graphics) and it came out to be $2090. Not a bad price for two machines in one.
Sun seems to get a lot of harsh criticism here on Slashdot for some reason. IBM seems to always get a pass or dare I say is a Slashdot darling. You would think Sun was Microsoft. I wonder why this is? I cannot wait to see what comes of the latest Sun Slashdot entry.
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The whole reason for buying any hardware is applications. If you applications run on Solaris only (or preferably; as this does happen) then that is what you buy.
Out of curiosity I priced out Sun's entry workstation (SunBlade 150) and the SunPCIII Pro Coproccessor Card (basically PC on a card with AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 256MB PC2100 onboard memory (SODIMM) 24 bit graphics) and it came out to be $2090. Not a bad price for two machines in one.
Sun seems to get a lot of harsh criticism here on Slashdot for some reason. IBM seems to always get a pass or dare I say is a Slashdot darling. You would think Sun was Microsoft. I wonder why this is? I cannot wait to see what comes of the latest Sun Slashdot entry.
The GPL is not what is in question here and that which is in question is absolutely no threat to Sun (since they have all the licensing they need).