Comments on: Sunset for Sun and Linux? http://ianmurdock.com/sun/sunset-for-sun-and-linux/ Linux old timer. Debian founder. Sun alum. Salesforce ExactTarget exec. Sat, 05 Sep 2015 19:38:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.2 By: Rajiv Vyas http://ianmurdock.com/sun/sunset-for-sun-and-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-365 Tue, 05 Jul 2005 03:42:08 +0000 http://ianmurdock.com/?p=258#comment-365 Good overall view. The big question is how can Sun take advantage of (with Linux) of the growing devices markets (Nokia 770), and like server appliances and point-of-sale terminals, where Linux is increasing its footprint and where Solaris doesn’t play at all? Yes, those are parts of the network infrastructure too, but why would any company approach Sun for their Linux solution? Won’t the company be better off by focusing on Solaris, Open Solaris, Java and UltraSparc.

On a seperate not, yes Sun has made pleanty of mistakes in the past, but so have Apple, IBM, HP, Compaq and others. That’s why we still have Microsoft with a monopoly. Very few companies in the tech space have senior management that can a long-term view and go after it.

]]> By: Clayton O'Neill http://ianmurdock.com/sun/sunset-for-sun-and-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-364 Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:03:43 +0000 http://ianmurdock.com/?p=258#comment-364 Just because you’re not writing to the OS API’s doesn’t mean that the OS doesn’t matter. There are definitely feature and stability differences between Linux and Solaris. I run Linux at home for the advanced routing features and a number of other things. However, I prefer developing for Solaris at work, because of the amount of instrumentation that makes it easier to profile and optimize server applications. (Also, better enterprise storage management tools).

Both have their own niches at this point, but perhaps they’ll converge more over time.

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