At peace with Microsoft, Sun chief whips off the gloves over Red Hat "Sun Microsystems Inc.'s combative chief executive, Scott McNealy, fresh from resolving his long-running quarrel with archrival Microsoft Corp., has found a new target for his wrath: Linux software maker Red Hat Inc.
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''We love Linux," said McNealy at yesterday's meeting of the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council in Newton. ''We just don't love Red Hat."
McNealy stressed that Linux wasn't the enemy. He noted that Sun is one of the leading contributors of free software to open-source projects, that Sun sells computers equipped with Linux, and that the company plans to release the next version of Solaris as an open-source product. ''Open source is not a threat," he said, just Red Hat. ''They're a competitor," McNealy said, ''and we're going to blow them out of the water if we can."
I feel slightly sorry for Sun, Since they really have managed themselfs bad, IBM has had great success supporting Linux, and it looks like novell is going the same way. While Sun has supported the opensource movement they haven't recived the rewards as these well managed companys have, Its quite sad really.
ReplyDeleteI just hope they don't go the way of SCO after there quick fling in the open source arena.