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Why Open Source Solaris?
Daniel Hanson, 2004-12-22

Sun is getting into the open-source business with Solaris, but will this automatically translate into better sales?

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Why Open Source Solaris? 2004-12-23
Anonymous
Answer:
Because it will give Solaris more exposure to the masses who are eating up Linux and *BSD. I learned Solaris in school, but once I left I had no way of keeping the knowledge because I didnt want to blow my money on a SPARC system with Solaris when I can throw together a PC and install a "fr...

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Why Open Source Solaris? 2004-12-23
Anonymous
"why is Sun contemplating open-source for Solaris?"

In the hopes that some of it will end up in Linux; so they can claim their own slice of the "we own linux" pie.

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Why Open Source Solaris? 2004-12-24
dungeness
One reason for picking Red Hat over SCO is that Red Hat now has a larger market cap, and greater revenue. See where SCOs biz went at:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/22/sco_q4_04/

HP is having lots of problems as well.

FOSS software and companies are getting lots of good PR, and many "S...

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Why Open Source Solaris? 2004-12-28
Anonymous
There's a rebuttal to your article at:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/trackback/jimgris/Weblog/securit
yfocus_talks_opensolaris

Perhaps you can respond to it.
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