Sun Solaris gets all cozy with Linux
12/09/07 19:55 Filed in: Technology
It's can't be much more than a year ago (but is likely to be two the way times flying at present) that Sun came out of gates with Microsoft saying that it was nothing but love between them and they had patched their differences (umpty trumpty millions of dollars will do that) and would now be working together in peace and harmony.
Microsoft shared the secrets (and pitfalls) of their SMB system and Authentication methodologies for better interoperability twix Windows and Solaris and in return SUN Microsystems waited a month before making Solaris, ALL VERSIONS, free to anybody to download! Like the big bang resonates forever in space, you can apparently still hear the echoes of Steve Ballmer.
So pundits of IT's last remaining corporate Geek Tech company will not be shocked or awed by the news that the latest version of Solaris, 10, is all warm and fluffy towards the OpenSource gravy-train that is Linux.
Linux, the dream of free O/S that while is prevalent in lots of markets seems to have ABSOLUTELY ZERO impact in UK Government (a place where savings SURELY need to be made), charities or just about anybody to large to think beyond Microsoft. Now don't get me wrong. Microsoft products have come along leaps and bounds over the least few years and certainly projects like Mono bring MS technology (C#) to the Linux platform. But the costs! Microsoft, please take a long hard look at what you want to charge for software... if it wasn't so expensive, would anybody pirate it?
Microsoft shared the secrets (and pitfalls) of their SMB system and Authentication methodologies for better interoperability twix Windows and Solaris and in return SUN Microsystems waited a month before making Solaris, ALL VERSIONS, free to anybody to download! Like the big bang resonates forever in space, you can apparently still hear the echoes of Steve Ballmer.
So pundits of IT's last remaining corporate Geek Tech company will not be shocked or awed by the news that the latest version of Solaris, 10, is all warm and fluffy towards the OpenSource gravy-train that is Linux.
Linux, the dream of free O/S that while is prevalent in lots of markets seems to have ABSOLUTELY ZERO impact in UK Government (a place where savings SURELY need to be made), charities or just about anybody to large to think beyond Microsoft. Now don't get me wrong. Microsoft products have come along leaps and bounds over the least few years and certainly projects like Mono bring MS technology (C#) to the Linux platform. But the costs! Microsoft, please take a long hard look at what you want to charge for software... if it wasn't so expensive, would anybody pirate it?