To: crushelits
AIX (from IBM) is already close to this. The OS is about $250 even on servers that are a quarter mill in cost.
LQ
To: crushelits; rdb3; hchutch
Wow. Slowaris for free. Be still my beating heart.
3 posted on
11/15/2004 9:33:37 AM PST by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
To: crushelits
Should I down load it? Is it like XP?
5 posted on
11/15/2004 9:42:01 AM PST by
Dallas59
("A weak peace is worse than war" - Tacitcus)
To: ShadowAce
9 posted on
11/15/2004 10:21:14 AM PST by
JoJo Gunn
(More than two lawyers in any Country constitutes a terrorist organization. ©)
To: crushelits
Solaris 10 looks like it's going to have some really interesting features for developers. I've heard some really good things about the new trace facility for identifying performance bottlenecks. It is features that will keep the servers selling, not the base OS.
10 posted on
11/15/2004 10:21:49 AM PST by
zeugma
(Come to the Dark Side...... We have cookies!)
To: crushelits
Whoa!! From the headline, I thought the sun was giving out. Don't know where I was going, but I was ready to pack my bags.
12 posted on
11/15/2004 10:34:14 AM PST by
wizr
To: crushelits
Sun to Give Out Operating System for Free
And it's worth every penny...
21 posted on
11/15/2004 1:41:28 PM PST by
2Hot4You
(Don't Be The Bunny)
To: crushelits
Speaking of "free" operating systems how many of us actually "paid" for Windows? I got XP home with my Dell,98se with my HP,and the copy of 98se on this old clunker I fished out of a thrift store dumpster.All of which were easier than trying to download a copy of Linux off the web.
22 posted on
11/15/2004 2:41:34 PM PST by
edchambers
("Rock n Roller with one foot in the grave")
To: crushelits
Gillette gives you the razor and makes a lot of money on the blades," "Servers and operating systems are like razors and blades. In fact, that's why we called 'em Sun Blades. And wait till you see Sun Shaving Gel and Sun Aftershave Lotion."
24 posted on
11/15/2004 2:47:55 PM PST by
IStillBelieve
(G.W. Bush '04: Biggest popular-vote victory in history, and first popular-vote majority in 16 years!)
To: crushelits
Solaris had BEED FREE for some time I got a free copy of Solaris 8 in 2002... however you do have to pay for the cd's, packing and shipping
25 posted on
11/15/2004 2:54:51 PM PST by
tophat9000
(We didn’t rise they sunk look at the blue, water filled, sink holes map (Mike Moore Fatass divots ?)
To: crushelits
"...it could make Solaris more competitive with open-source operating systems like Linux (news - web sites) and distributors such as Red Hat Inc..."
More competitive with os's that have 5% of the market - who cares?
26 posted on
11/15/2004 3:00:06 PM PST by
NoClones
To: crushelits
Can you even run it on anything except a Solaris?
Solaris had a nice edge on high-end computing; that's gone now. They're dinosaurs.
28 posted on
11/15/2004 3:59:25 PM PST by
Nataku X
(Lord, please guide President Bush, and please protect our soldiers in Fallujah.)
To: crushelits
It's a matter of competition.Prices for XP will begin to drop.
Anyway, Win-XP is a piece of junk full of holes and can easily be compromised.
Linux is more reliable, but there are no many software progs. out threre.
On the downside, I read that the win operating system for hand held pc's has surpassed Palm soft. sales for the first time.
To: crushelits
47 posted on
11/16/2004 3:14:33 PM PST by
the invisib1e hand
(if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
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