Even if Dundee Securities reckons Linux could be a worse enemy for Sun than Microsoft, Scott McNealy's company doesn't appear to think so.
Sun announced today what it described as an "aggressive" programme to put Linux onto a wide range of its low end servers.
It will also contribute to the general Open Source push.
Sun said that will ship a full implementation of Linux on a new line of general purpose servers, both single and multiprocessor, with the machines coming out mid year.
It said that the machines will use X86 architecture and support "thousands" of Linux applications in native mode.
It also said it will expand its Cobalt Linux appliance line, which start around $1,000 or so.
And it said it will offer major components of the Solaris operating environment and release tools so that Linux and Solaris can be compatible.
News source: The Inquirer
Sun announced today what it described as an "aggressive" programme to put Linux onto a wide range of its low end servers.
It will also contribute to the general Open Source push.
Sun said that will ship a full implementation of Linux on a new line of general purpose servers, both single and multiprocessor, with the machines coming out mid year.
It said that the machines will use X86 architecture and support "thousands" of Linux applications in native mode.
It also said it will expand its Cobalt Linux appliance line, which start around $1,000 or so.
And it said it will offer major components of the Solaris operating environment and release tools so that Linux and Solaris can be compatible.
News source: The Inquirer
And you should see my mail. I've been told that the FBI has warned consumers not to use Windows XP, which of course never happened. I've been told that Red Hat Linux actually beat out Windows, vulnerability-wise, in 1997 and 1998 (You know, back when RH Linux had about 6 actual users). It goes on and on, but for every flawed argument I was somehow able to make in a one-paragraph blurb, I received about 100 insane, frothing emails containing dozens of equally wrong counterpoints.
Look, Microsoft needs to do a better job about security, as I've said before. But I refuse to believe that Linux would be any better than Windows if it was in use in the same number and variety of places. Why? Because I think with my head, and not with my heart
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