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Lock-in under a new guise

What Sun fails to mention is that Red Hat provides the source code to their enterprise version so that others can and have compiled it into binary distributions. So even if Red Hat went belly-up, others could take over. If Sun went out of business or stopped supporting Solaris on anything but Sparc, you're out of luck.

Besides, Sun only plans on supporting Solaris on Sparc, Opteron and Intel which is a degree of hardware lock-in. With Linux in general (not Red Hat in particular) there is suppport for a whole plethora of hardware platforms (Sparc, Intel, Opteron, PowerPC, Alpha, MIPS, PA-RISC and s390 to name a few)- a nice way to repurpose old, otherwise obsolete hardware.

Posted by: sujai.nath@...   Posted on: 06/10/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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