John Coldrick wrote:
On Sunday 08 August 2004 07:28, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The idea, I guess, would not be luring Linux users into Sun, but stopping Sun users from jumping ship because the want some Linux app.
I'm not so sure about that...certainly there might be some elements of management that may perceive that as happening, but personally I think they know there's a huge install base of Solaris users out there that aren't going anywhere(the cost to switch). IMHO this is something to help them get more use out of something they can't dump easily, and probably didn't cost a *lot* of money to implement. I see it as a service to their existing customers, and not as something primarily to lure users away/towards Linux or Solaris.
Of course, I've been wrong overestimating the intelligence of management before...;)
Cheers,
J.C.
Lock-ins are not what they used to be. I know of some shops that have mixed Linux and Solaris boxes installed. One customer said he was getting rid of his Sun servers, so curiously I asked him what they were moving to - thinking possibly Windows, then they said Linux/Oracle, replacing an E10K, E6500 and a bunch of smaller servers. Whereas IBM early on decided that a sale of AIX, a mainframe or a sale of Linux was a sale of an IBM box running whatever software the customer fancied, Sun insisted on plying only Solaris on SPARC . In many customers' minds, Sun-SPARC-Solaris is Sun's server business model and they have reacted not too convincingly only after that model seemed to have failed. I doubt they are fatally wounded and they may yet come back strongly with a more coherent strategy. Sun's product offerings have always been a hotch-potch of hardware, but with one core and that was Solaris. The way they are using Linux still lacks conviction. Currently there are not any tea leaves to read, Sun's cup only has coffee stains. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====