I expect they're trying to avoid dragging the Java name through the mud. Sources are saying that the settlement protects all Sun customers, and Sun itself, from any future Kodak patent issues with Java.
and I've seen Linux carry on with about every hardware failure possible, and when Linux has found one of these hardware failures, it reports it, and keeps running as much as it can.
Yeah, it's great when hardware fails but the OS just spits out some error messages and keeps plugging along. It's espcially great if you like data corruption.
OK, sarcasm aside, my point is just that hardware failures can cause data corruption, and you want your OS to be aware of this.
Solaris knows what type of errors, occuring during which type of operations, can and can't cause data corruption. It does the right thing in the event of hardware failure.
Sun should be competing with RedHat. Get the idea that RedHat equals Linux out of your head because it isn't. And you all know better. RedHat may be behind the free Fedora, but they sell Enterprise RedHat Linux and Enterprise Linux support. They price Enterprise RedHat Linux above Solaris. Yes, it's more expensive. Anyway RedHat is a private company in the business to make money and Sun competes with them to make money.
And RedHat is the dominant player when it comes to corporations using Linux. So Sun going after RedHat customers makes sense. And wait, Sun can sell you Solaris, Solaris support, Linux, Linux support, and the hardware too? 64bit x86 or 64bit Sparc? What's that? Sun matches or beats Dell and IBM's prices? Wait, RedHat doesn't sell hardware? Oh and RedHat doesn't sell the complete software stack.
Sun has their own OS (it's called Solaris). Why should they spend all their time and money developing a Linux distribution? Is that what you want? It makes no sense. Now don't think Sun is anti-Linux and anti free software. They've made GNU/Linux more credible with OpenOffice.org and they do contribute to GNU Linux projects like Gnome.
IBM, HP, SGI, do you know why they contribute to Linux? Because it's cheaper for them to develop Linux than it is their own operating systems. It's not because they love you.
And get this evil SCO-Microsoft-Sun conspiracy out of your head. In case you forgot, Sun was fucked over by Microsoft and the recent settlement was a result of long standing litigation! Sun hurts MS everytime they sell a JDS license and they aint trying to get in bed together.
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I expect they're trying to avoid dragging the Java name through the mud. Sources are saying that the settlement protects all Sun customers, and Sun itself, from any future Kodak patent issues with Java.
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Yeah, it's great when hardware fails but the OS just spits out some error messages and keeps plugging along. It's espcially great if you like data corruption.
OK, sarcasm aside, my point is just that hardware failures can cause data corruption, and you want your OS to be aware of this.
Solaris knows what type of errors, occuring during which type of operations, can and can't cause data corruption. It does the right thing in the event of hardware failure.
Sun should be competing with RedHat. Get the idea that RedHat equals Linux out of your head because it isn't. And you all know better. RedHat may be behind the free Fedora, but they sell Enterprise RedHat Linux and Enterprise Linux support. They price Enterprise RedHat Linux above Solaris. Yes, it's more expensive. Anyway RedHat is a private company in the business to make money and Sun competes with them to make money. And RedHat is the dominant player when it comes to corporations using Linux. So Sun going after RedHat customers makes sense. And wait, Sun can sell you Solaris, Solaris support, Linux, Linux support, and the hardware too? 64bit x86 or 64bit Sparc? What's that? Sun matches or beats Dell and IBM's prices? Wait, RedHat doesn't sell hardware? Oh and RedHat doesn't sell the complete software stack. Sun has their own OS (it's called Solaris). Why should they spend all their time and money developing a Linux distribution? Is that what you want? It makes no sense. Now don't think Sun is anti-Linux and anti free software. They've made GNU/Linux more credible with OpenOffice.org and they do contribute to GNU Linux projects like Gnome. IBM, HP, SGI, do you know why they contribute to Linux? Because it's cheaper for them to develop Linux than it is their own operating systems. It's not because they love you. And get this evil SCO-Microsoft-Sun conspiracy out of your head. In case you forgot, Sun was fucked over by Microsoft and the recent settlement was a result of long standing litigation! Sun hurts MS everytime they sell a JDS license and they aint trying to get in bed together.