Re: "Torn between two OS" - Solaris vs Linux

From: Lawrence DčOliveiro (ldo_at_geek-central.gen.new_zealand)
Date: 01/01/05 

Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 11:12:19 +1300

In article <cq3sql$6g5$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
 js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote:

>In article <41C55074.81D297B6@mega-nerd.com>,
>Erik de Castro Lopo <nospam@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
>
>>> Why should Sun give up an Excellent OS in favor of something that
>>> is only good?
>>
>>Because the market place wants Linux, not solaris.
>
>If Sun would follow this argument, Sun would have a short term
>shareholders value revenue but would suffer in the long term.

...which is exactly what's happened to them.

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