McNealy: Sun could have won out over Linux
Sun Microsystems' mishandling of Solaris on the Intel platform left an opening for Linux to become established, when the company's Solaris OS could have won out instead, Sun co-founder and former CEO Scott McNealy said when interviewed Thursday evening by former Sun President Ed Zander at a Silicon Valley business and technology forum.
Sun was acquired by Oracle early in 2010 after facing heavy losses amidst a poor economy and industry-wide trends toward Intel and Linux systems, which were not Sun specialties. But things could have worked out differently, according to McNealy.
Sun had its Solaris x86 product, which the company kept reviving and cancelling. "If we had just grabbed the Intel Pentium chip and done a one-way and two-way pizza box with Solaris on it, Linux never would have happened," McNealy said. "Google today would be running on Solaris." Oracle is still offering and developing Solaris.
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