LinuxToday: What Goes Around
While the rest of the open source world reels from the Oracle-spanks-Red Hat and Microsoft-embraces-Novell news, it left me wondering, where does this leave Sun Microsystems?
There are, I'm sure, a fair number of you out there that are thinking "who cares"? And I would tend to agree. In my bi-weekly column over on ServerWatch, though, I examined the potential fate of Sun and its Solaris operating system, and the prospects do not look good for either in the enterprise server space.
That was taking only Sun into consideration. As I delved into the archives to put the ServerWatch piece together, I kept bumping into something that many are aware of, but perhaps not paying too much attention: the Canonical-Sun connection. This is no big secret, mind you, but I cannot help but wonder if we are starting to see a larger trend take place in the commercial Linux world.
The bridge between Sun and Canonical is fairly straightforward: Sun is supporting Canonical's Ubuntu on its UltraSPARC T1 boxes and, more recently announced, on its x86-based Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers, and Sun Ultra 20 and 40 Workstations.
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