[ale] Linux @ Sun and the demise of Solaris-x86

[Geoff Harrison]

On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 10:30:57PM -0400, cutter wrote:
> It is worse than that...
> 
> My brother is a 'Distinguished Engineer' at Sun. Howz 'at for a weird
> title?
> 
> It seems that at a meeting very recently in Oregon, some unfortunate
> Engineer suggested that they might substitute increase the pool of
> experienced Solaris admins, and increase loyalty to Solaris by offering
> Solaris for the x86 for free. All of us Linux users would switch to the
> 'better' Solaris and ultimately lead to more sales for Sun of its work
> stations and servers. He was publicly berated and humiliated in front of
> the entire audience of fellow engineers.
> 
> In the long run, it probably would have been a good idea for Sun.

Except that I don't like solaris, why the hell would I want to put it
on my PC?  bad enough I have to deal with it at work on all our sparcs
(well most of them - some run sparclinux now)


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