[Cialug] Larry Ellison is posturing again. Everyone watch out!

[Lee]

Solaris is Unix. Check this link for some background and details...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Operating_Environment

Carl Olsen wrote:

> I don’t know if this is the place to ask this question, but I’ll give 
> it a shot. I attended the Central Iowa Java User Group last week and 
> Sun Microsystems did a demo of Java Studio Creator. They said they 
> were releasing free versions of everything they make for developers, 
> including Solaris 10. I’m currently running SUSE Linux 9.3 
> Professional, but my employer runs Solaris 10. I’m thinking it would 
> be a good time to reformat the hard drive and install Solaris 10. 
> Here’s my naïve question – is Solaris 10 Linux or something else?
>
> I got SUSE Linux, because Novell is developing ASP.NET for Linux 
> (www.mono-project.com <http://www.mono-project.com/>), but Mono also 
> runs on Solaris 10. I like being able to choose open source software 
> written in any language and run it on any platform, so I’m interested 
> in having .NET and Java (and PHP) running at the same time.
>
> Carl Olsen
>
> Web Developer
>
> Drake University
>
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> *From:* cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] 
> *On Behalf Of *Brandon Griffis
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:43 PM
> *To:* Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> *Subject:* [Cialug] Larry Ellison is posturing again. Everyone watch out!
>
> This is being reported widely in the news in relation to Red Hat's 
> recent purchase of JBoss. There has been talk about Oracle buying 
> Novell (SuSE) to compete with Red Hat. This is mostly tripe as Novell 
> does not appear to be anywhere near a situation that would warrant a 
> buyout. And now Larry Ellison (Oracle) is making comments about wiping 
> various Linux distros off the map including both Red Hat and SuSE. He 
> might be the 2nd richest man in the software industry, but he's 
> certainly no runner up in having his head shoved up his ass.
>
>
> -Gamble
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/17/oracle_buy_linux/ 
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/17/oracle_buy_linux/>
>
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