[wellylug] Finally... OpenSolaris is on it's way

[Peter Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cesare D'Amico [mailto:cesare at ngi.it]
> Sent: Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:09 a.m.
> To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Finally... OpenSolaris is on it's way
> 
> 
> Alle 21:16, mercoledì 26 gennaio 2005, Rob Giltrap ha scritto:
> > Open source adoption will massively
> > increase just through normal upgrade cycles. People will not need to
> > "decide" to go to Linux in order to go Open Source. This is great
> > news for the growth of open source, great new for Suns users and
> > great news for Solaris developers.
> 
> You forgot to mention the great news for Sun, which will be able to 
> continue to sell its (overpriced? I don't really know) hardware, and 
> won't lose more clients who were going to migrate to linux/i386 (on 
> some markets, at least...).
> 
> That said, I think that this is a great news for everyone: great 
> software now available to the community, whatever was the real reason 
> that led to the decision :)
> 
> Ciao
>      ce
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