[ degojs @ 02.08.2004. 20:21 ] @
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1630398,00.asp

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In an interview with eWEEK, Sun President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz acknowledged that the Santa Clara, Calif., company is considering making a move to buy Novell, saying that such a move could ultimately force Big Blue to depend on Sun for its Linux operating system.

"But that competitive opportunity is very evident to us, and I'm sure is evident to IBM. Hypothetically, if Sun were to acquire Novell, that would leave IBM dependent on Sun for its operating system, and what would happen when Sun then started offering upgrades off of SuSE onto Solaris? This would be a complete replay of the IBM/Microsoft Windows play in the 1980s. The difference between humans and white mice is that white mice learn from their mistakes. IBM has been down this path before," Schwartz said.


Hehehe, ne treba vama Microsoft da vas "guši".. Biće zanimljivo čitati kako je to sve plan Gejtsa (čitaj: MS-Sun dil).
[ markom @ 02.08.2004. 20:28 ] @
Vidi... Ja bih prvo skočio pa rekao hop. IBM je svojevremeno uspeo da iscrpi državnog tužioca USA. Jedan Sun je child's play ;-).

Potencijalna kupovina Novella od strane Suna ne znači ama baš ništa, posebno što IBM nije dependent o SuSE-u ništa više o nekoj drugoj distribuciji Linuxa :-)

Marko.
[ degojs @ 02.08.2004. 20:33 ] @
Marko, a to što Novell ima neka prava na Unix? Javna je tajna da Sun podržava Linux po sistemu: "Evo nudimo vam i Linux, jebo vas on." :)

Da se razumemo, pitanje je da li će od ovog biti nešto.. mada..
[ markom @ 02.08.2004. 20:44 ] @
Pa to što Novell ima nekakva prava na originalni UNIX kôd, nema puno veze sa Linuxom. GNU is not UNIX, remember :-).

Marko.
[ degojs @ 02.08.2004. 20:50 ] @
Teško da bi to ostalo samo na tom objašnjenju, pogotovo ako se i SCO povampiri uz pomoć Sun-a. No, dobro, to je sad baš teorija zavere :) a i ipak je manje verovatno da će se ova kupovina desiti.

Mada.. :))
[ markom @ 02.08.2004. 20:55 ] @
Pa Sunu samo fali da se stavi u istu priču kao SCO pa da definitivno krenu da spremanu papire za #11 ;-)

Marko.
[ degojs @ 02.08.2004. 21:17 ] @
A šta imaju od toga da sede na 7 milijardi USD i gledaju kako se polako topi?

Pogotovo kad..
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IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. are putting renewed pressure on Sun Microsystems Inc. with new solutions to help customers and ISVs move away from SPARC/Solaris and onto Linux.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1629583,00.asp