Re: Article: "Linux and the Asian PDA markets"
Al Bledsoe <[email protected]>
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So, IBM knows open source better than Sun? If you get cold and sweaty with a mission critical Unix/Linux problem who ya gonna call? IBM or Sun? Get real!!! Al Chris Caldwell wrote: >On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 14:09, Grant Edwards wrote: > > >>IMO, IBM and Sun are working with Open-Source precisely >>_because_ they're afraid of it. A much wiser long-term >>strategy than that of Microsoft. >> >> "Keep your friends close... and your enemies closer" >> >>If you're afraid of drowning, learning to swim is probably a >>better strategy than ranting and raving about the evils of >>water. >> >> >There are worlds of difference between IBM's involvement in Open Source >and Sun's. Sun's involvement in Gnome development has mainly been driven >by the need to find a replacement for it's ageing CDE desktop on >Solaris. Historically they've wavered on Linux support, and are pushing >massively overpriced x86 architecture for use only in the low-end of an >Enterprise. Their MadHatter project has come and gone and come again. >IBM, on the other hand, sees Linux as eventually replacing AIX and has >put it the money to see it happen. > >_______________________________________________ >Zaurus-general mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.zaurus.com/mailman/listinfo/zaurus-general > > _______________________________________________ Zaurus-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zaurus.com/mailman/listinfo/zaurus-general