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| QUOTE ("The Register") | Did Sun help itself by being last to Linux?
By Ashlee Vance in Chicago
Posted: 22/01/2004 at 17:31 GMT
It's all well and good to call Linux mature, but one of the most painful phrases in the IT industry proves it's not. That phrase is "end-to-end," and among the major hardware players out there, it's a surprisingly taboo concept. That is, surprisingly enough, except for one vendor - Solaris worshipper Sun Microsystems.
About this time last year, Sun announced it would shelve its own Linux distribution in favor of a Red Hat/SuSE combination. This revelation drew little interest as Sun could barely manage to ship a few hundred of its new Intel-based servers, and the Sun Linux OS was Red Hat with a few, minor tweaks. The move, however, did point to serious confusion on Sun's part about where it would take its Linux experiment. |
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