Posted in Sun's not so cheap trick doesn't work
Posted Friday 10th October 2008 15:19 GMT
Solaris is a toy
Sun doesn't understand that UNIX hardware is now commodity, and sold cheaper and higher-performing by Dell, and that Linux (just about any distro) is more fully-featured than Solaris. Which do you think people are going to buy with the economy the way it is?
I remember when Sun unbundled their compiler and a friend said "an OS without a language compiler is a toy" and it's still true.
Worst of all Scott McNealy reminds me of Ken Olsen, and we all know how that went.
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