By Stephen Shankland
Published: Monday 02 August 2004
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Name
Jay Bennie
Location
Surrey
Occupation
.net developer
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People seem to think this is just about linux - but sun would also be able to level the playing field in the competition between java and .net. Novells recent..ish aquisition of Ximian is more likly to be the reason that sun are interested, a solaris system capable of running java and .net(Ximians mono product is .net for unix system) applications is more important in the long term. However untill Sun do somethin about the cost of there Sparc HW, IBM will continue to have the competitiv egde as PowerPC64 technologiy bypasses SPARC oven the next few years, as a result sun need to buy time to address there processor issues, Suse Linux is a distraction, The OS is no longer important, the runtime environments of java and .net neutralise the competition at the OS level and take competition back to the application level.
As an ex-Novelli I've heard more rumours of takeov...
Anonymous
I think this could only be another rumour that goe...
Anonymous
In some respects I think it makes sense for Sun, ...
Andrew Libby
Sun have lost the thread if they think IBM are the...
John Brookes
People seem to think this is just about linux - bu...
Jay Bennie
I fully agree that this is just another of those g...
Anonymous
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