[rescue] (Oracle Adopting Linux) is not good news,

[Brian Hechinger]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:21:54PM -0500, Al Potter wrote:
> Depends on your POV.

ok, here's mine.

> The serious hardware manuactures (SUN, etc) will still continue to 
> manufacture serious hardware.  Linux allows them to get out of the OS 
> business.  All they have to do (as opposed to creating and maintaining the 
> entire OS) is port the kernel to their architecture.

why is this a good thing?  i don't want sun to stop making their own OS.  not
unless they can bring linux up to the stability and scalability of solaris.
i'd REALLY like to see linux run as well on a 64 CPU machine as solaris does.
but that won't be happening for a LONG time.

-brian