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FYI...
Playing with OS X on my son's G4 Mac suggests to me that Apple might be 
sitting on a great OS.  Unix inside a proven interface.  If they were to 
move OS X to Intel boxes, as Cringley suggested (my earlier forward), then 
I wonder how Linux and Solaris would fare...    (01)

Cheers
Jack    (02)



>UNIX INSIDER --- February 19, 2002
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>HIGHLIGHTS
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>* Is Sun's renewed interest in Linux an effort to revive their current
>   Linux offerings or an aggressive new commitment to the open-source
>   operating system?
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>Linux at Sun: The Big Push
>By Susan Levi Wallach
>
>Linux is no longer Unix's poor cousin at Sun Microsystems. The Santa
>Clara, CA computing giant has announced a big push of the open-source
>operating system, beginning now.
>
>To start, Sun will ship a full Linux implementation. Then, it will
>expand its line of Sun Cobalt Linux appliances and introduce a family
>of low-end general-purpose Linux/x86-based systems. And Sun intends to
>be more of a presence in the Linux community by making freely available
>key components of Solaris.
>
>Sun's move looks, in part, like an effort to put new wrapping on an old
>package. Linux already plays a large part in Sun's strategy, though
>perhaps not clearly articulated as such. After all, Solaris 8 runs
>Linux applications, many of Sun's software products also run on Linux,
>and Linux runs native on the Sparc platform. Moreover, Sun has a
>history of open-source support at various levels, including
>participation in such projects as OpenOffice.org, Gnome.org,
>Mozilla.org, Apache.org, NetBeans.org, X.org, WBEMsource Initiative,
>the University of Michigan NFS version 4 Linux port, the Grid Engine
>Project, and Project JXTA.
>
>Nonetheless, Sun's announcement does mark a more aggressive commitment
>to Linux. For example, Sun says that it will now deliver built-in Linux
>compatibility in key programming interfaces, commands and utilities,
>and user environments. Also coming is the Linux Compatibility Assurance
>Toolkit (LinCAT), which will make ensuring that Linux applications run
>on its Sun Fire servers much simpler. And Sun announced that Solaris 9,
>now in early access, will feature even more built-in Linux commands,
>utilities, and interfaces.
>
>According to Herb Hinstorff, group marketing manager in Sun's operating
>environment group, "It's not just one little thing here and one little
>thing there. The strategy is one of using the products we have now --
>the compatibility built into Solaris and the offering in appliances --
>to really bring together the Java, Linux, and XML communities and be
>viewed as a true contributor, to really get credit for all the energies
>we've have and continue to put into Linux."
>
>About the author(s)
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>Susan Levi Wallach is an editor and analyst and has been covering
>information technology since the days of Babbage. Susan can be reached
>at slw@pablo.com.
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