arstechnica.com— In a stunning move, Sun has announced that it is becoming a Microsoft OEM and will begin selling Sun servers bundled with Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
Sep 12, 2007View in Crawl 4
I have to wonder how Sun will do in a commodity hardware market. Unlike Solaris, hardware is never likely to be free but that doesn't mean they'll still be a position to make money selling it. That leaves services. Companies can indeed make money on post-sales services (Xerox is an example), but it's a competitive market. With Microsoft handling software support (effectively), they're going to have to somehow differentiate themselves. It's not impossible, just different when you only control part of the sale.
I liked the blue screening windows more. It had personality. It was like the world's ugliest dog competition of operating systems. It was so hideous that you couldn't help but bond with it. Yeah it sucked, but it sucked with passion. Now windows just sucks in a dull, boring way. It's like driving a Prius on the Autobahn. Sure it runs, but man it's just not fun. Of course it only lasts 10,000 miles or so before parts start falling off and it needs a fresh image, but it makes a good (although boring) run of it.
runepSep 13, 2007
What are you talking about, Solaris on mainframes? Solaris looks like a toy in the mainframe world ;-)
tommaszSep 13, 2007
I have to wonder how Sun will do in a commodity hardware market. Unlike Solaris, hardware is never likely to be free but that doesn't mean they'll still be a position to make money selling it. That leaves services. Companies can indeed make money on post-sales services (Xerox is an example), but it's a competitive market. With Microsoft handling software support (effectively), they're going to have to somehow differentiate themselves. It's not impossible, just different when you only control part of the sale.
jhaksSep 13, 2007
Like I said above Vista was built on the Server 2003 code base.
fringet1Sep 13, 2007
Even joking, caps and all, that was just lame.
21chrispSep 14, 2007
I liked the blue screening windows more. It had personality. It was like the world's ugliest dog competition of operating systems. It was so hideous that you couldn't help but bond with it. Yeah it sucked, but it sucked with passion. Now windows just sucks in a dull, boring way. It's like driving a Prius on the Autobahn. Sure it runs, but man it's just not fun. Of course it only lasts 10,000 miles or so before parts start falling off and it needs a fresh image, but it makes a good (although boring) run of it.
bonkerz990Sep 15, 2007
Also XP x64 Edition.