[ale] IBM to buy SUN?

[Jeff Lightner]

Maybe they wouldn't keep both but as I noted in my initial post Solaris
seems to be the biggest UNIX presence out there.  I was shocked when I
went on a job hung a few years back to find Solaris had taken over the
UNIX world while I wasn't looking.   If they were going to dump one I'd
be willing to bet it would be AIX rather than Solaris.   

However, there is no need to dump one or the other.  They can simply do
as others before them have done and keep "enhancing" both until they
look so much alike there is no real difference except the name.  Of
course that didn't work out so well for Tru64 folks after HP bought
Compaq (which had bought DEC).

In a recent AUUG presentation the Tek Systems recruiter that speaks
there again indicated Solaris was always where the most UNIX openings
were.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
dmcnash at charter.net
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:42 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] IBM to buy SUN?

---- Jonathan Rickman <jrickman at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:24 PM, <dmcnash at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> If you haven't seen anything come out of Sun since Java...then you
need to
> take a long hard look at Solaris 10.

I'm talking "change the world" stuff (well that might be exaggerating.) 
JAVA was a world changer. Solaris 10 sounds incremental.  I never liked
Solaris so I avoid it.  I never figured out what a Silo Overflow was,
something to hold cow food?.  For all I know it might be wonderful so I
guess I should just shut up. 

On a related note, it appears that another UNIX OS will eventually join
SCO in the tarpit.  Killed by linux?  I can't see IBM keeping both AIX
and Solaris.

--
doug mcnash
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