Sun Stock Ticker Catches Up with Reality
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| Linux was starting to get traction in the business market for the first
| time, and Linux could do some of the things that high-priced SPARC
| systems could do on low-end x86 systems.
|
| At first, Sun ignored Linux. Sure, Linux could do some little network
| jobs —low usage Web and file servers —but serious network serving?
| Workstation work? You had to be joking, was the common attitude at Sun.
|
| But to show it was willing, Sun bought a Linux appliance company,
| Cobalt, in late 2000. But by 2003, Sun killed off its $2-billion
| Linux purchase. Why? Because, Sun's high-profit margin SPARC
| camp had no use for Linux-based systems.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2175146,00.asp
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Sun Sparc defectors tap Transitive for Linux migrations
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| One such customer is London-based King's College Hospital NHS Foundation
| Trust, which used QuickTransit to move off Solaris/Sparc onto Linux/x86 in
| July.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1268396,00.html
Sun set on server business?
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| In many ways, Sun is becoming Red Hat.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1336
Sun's X64-Based Streaming Server Runs on Linux
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| The Linux used in the system is one that Kealia created for itself
| based on an undisclosed commercial distribution with some real-time
| hooks in it to boost the responsiveness of the system. Over the long
| haul, you can bet that Sun will port the Streaming System software
| to Solaris.
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http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn042607-story01.html
Sun boots workstation roots in favor of JAVA ticker
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| After some corporate maneuvering, SourceForge now trades under LNUX at about
| $3.50 per share. Let's all remember the good old days.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/23/sun_no_sunw_java/
SUN FUD: "Save a Penguin, Unplug a Linux Server" May Win Most-Flamable E-Mail
Award
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| I just got an e-mail from Sun which is probably the largest violation
| of L. Ron Hubbard's Survey tech that I've ever seen. It was an e-mail
| with the title of, "Save a Penguin - Unplug a Linux Server Today".
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http://jetteroheller.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/save-a-penguin-unplug-a-linux-server-may-win-most-flamable-e-mail-award/
SUN FUD: Changing the game again
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| Lim [of Sun] said that the web tier as done by Linux is pretty much "Mickey
| Mouse," in that today's Web 2.0 applications are hanging on a thread, based
| on operating systems which are doing much more than what they were originally
| designed for.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/Database/22Aug2007_data51.php
Morton: no merging of OpenSolaris with Linux
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| Don’t expect to see key features of OpenSolaris showing up in the Linux
| kernel, said a top Linux maintainer.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1295
Sun Microsystems to reduce work force
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| Sun has been aggressively cutting costs since Jonathan Schwartz took over as
| chief executive in April 2006 from co-founder Scott McNealy.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070807/ap_on_hi_te/sun_microsystems_job_cuts
Sun CEO: "Proprietary"...did more damage to sun than any market downturn
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| Sun has discovered the exact same thing. Freedom sells. Or, rather,
| services around freedom sell. The freedom itself is, well, free.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/sun_ceo_proprie.html
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