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
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