[Info-vax] OT: IBM Offering $9-10 Per Share for Sun

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Mon Apr 6 19:52:54 EDT 2009


ChrisQ wrote:
> To get back on topic, Solaris runs very successfully on X86 and is 
> arguably the most capable and fully featured unix around now. Added to 
> which it's free to use. With all the open sources linux etc code running 
> on Solaris, who in their right mind would want to run Linux anymore 
> anyway, except to hack with, especially if you consider the support 
> costs ?...

If you look out in the real world then you will see:
- the number of Solaris system shrinking
- the number of Linux systems exploding

Apparently a lot of people see it different than you.

Arne



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