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

[Rob Giltrap]

Cesare D'Amico wrote:

> 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...).
>  
>
Sun's x86 and low end Sparc systems are pretty well priced and they are 
still increasing the number of servers they are shipping (the V210/V240 
machines are really awesome and sell like hotcakes).  And you are 
absolutely right clients were migrating, and now there is little reason 
to do so as all the benefits of Linux on x86 are provided by Solaris on 
x86 and all the previous downsides (like vendor lockin) have been removed.

>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 :)
>  
>
I was trying to find a link to an explanation that Sun gave that summed 
it up really well (but can't find it). But essentially many of Sun's 
customers wanted it, Sun's own engineering force wanted it and more 
importantly the majority of the developer community wanted it (it just 
took a while for the marketing droids to understand this need!). Sun 
knows that it is dependent on the support of the developer community and 
that a thriving developer community means a thriving Sun.