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"No hardware, I notice. That may be accurate."

It is becoming increasingly difficult to justify SPARC's premium
for all but specialist markets, especially with OpenSolaris'
support for x86.

"So Sun can live only by becoming the third competitor in
commercial Linux after Red Hat and SuSE. Maybe second, if
Novell takes SuSE down with it."

You're assuming the failure of OpenSolaris, I'm not. However,
Sun would make a very good Linux competitor. The key to all
distribution sellers is to pick a market, and there's tremendous
opportunities yet to be identified and looked after. I'm not a fan
of the present general commercial distributions.

"Saying a company must rely on open source to survive is not an
optimistic prognosis."

Selling services on top of open source solutions is a good
model. Sun has the resources (both financial and personnel) to
make a great Linux company.

Lets be honest, all *nix producers have been riding on the back
of open source products their entire lives (Solaris' heritage
anyone?).
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Remarkable  Anton Philidor | 09/13/05
The downside of building ecosystems.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/13/05
No they went with a multi-core PPC.  Richard Flude | 09/13/05
Slip of the tongue (fingers).  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/13/05
When are people willing to "make the leap"?  Anton Philidor | 09/14/05
Not the way it will happen.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/14/05
Makes sense.  Anton Philidor | 09/14/05
Most interesting analogy that can be expanded.  Zinoron | 09/14/05
Why diminish?  Anton Philidor | 09/14/05
My two cents to this...  jmills@... | 09/13/05
Expect bloat.  Anton Philidor | 09/14/05
Yes, at best vista is NT 6.0  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 09/14/05
Excellent Article Murph.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/13/05
Doesn't sound that monumental  Richard Flude | 09/13/05
Is that a future or a predicted demise?  Anton Philidor | 09/14/05
Yet to be seen  Richard Flude | 09/14/05
Nope, SPARC will be aorund long after x86 is gone  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 09/15/05
Thoughts  Roger Ramjet | 09/14/05
hang in there, there are surprise coming  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 09/14/05
People whose projects have been failing...  Anton Philidor | 09/14/05
Success? Those guys?  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 09/15/05
If I were to place a 10 year bet...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/19/06
SO that's the future?  TonyMcS | 05/16/06

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