[aklug] Re: The end of Sun?

Royce Williams wrote:
> Damien Hull wrote, on 3/18/2009 3:29 PM:
>> There's nothing special about Sun. Hasn't been in the past 9 years or so. This is an opinion from someone who never really used it. Why run solaris when you can run Linux and do the same thing?
>
> There may be nothing special about Sun at the workstation or small
> server level, but big iron and Grid have some significant heft when done
> well. There's also something to be said for unified OS architecture -
> both positive and negative. :-)
These guys paved the way for a lot of things we use today, not to
mention used a few paved roads of their own :) A good majority of the
kernel we all know and love today and the tools we use on top of it were
designed by Sun oriented folks.

>> I wonder what IBM will do with it if they buy them.
>
> Combine R&D, and also throw their database people in bed together, probably.

That's one sexy sub select, Royce.

> Royce
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