Hey,
> Not sure what Oracle or SAP's claim to fame is... Ah, now we come to
> Sun. Released useful, well interesting at least, code to OSS development
> (Project looking glass) but is still a proprietary Unix vendor - is
> being 100% committed to Linux in their interest? Who knows - so many
> contradictory statements appear about what licensing changes they're
> going to make that it's hard to tell. I did hear the Java Desktop is
> going to move from a Linux kernel to Solaris and that Solaris will be
> Open Source licensed... maybe... or not.
I'm pretty sure that Sun is 100% committed to Linux - some of our
customers have asked for it, and we'll continue to provide it. However,
I would imagine we'll always be pushing Solaris for mission critical
deployments. Solaris will be open sourced before the end of the year [1]
>From a JDS point of view, we'll continue to develop on Linux *and*
Solaris - the desktop will be available with both.
Glynn
[1] http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eschrock?catname=Solaris for one
source of Open Source Solaris blogs
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