Sun's Schwartz: Linux honeymoon is over on Wall Street
Chris Murphy Sep 04 2004

..  Instead of selling just a piece of software, or just a storage
device, we're selling the whole system ..

.. Solaris, which is by far the best operating system on the planet ..

.. I would say about one customer a month is telling me that the
honeymoon is over because for all practical purposes, the Linux market
has tipped to a single vendor — Red Hat.

.. Imagine having thousands and thousands of servers all over your data
center with just - OK features to manage them to make sure they are
fully utilized. That ends up being a lot of system administrators who
don't work for free. So we've seen a lot of companies turning to Sun
asking us what to do now.

.. We know at least one instance when a financial services company had a
problem with Red Hat's operating system and they asked Red Hat to fix it
ASAP. Moments later it found its way onto a developer forum, posted by a
Red Hat engineer. How's that for one throat to choke? ..

.. Suffice it to say, this customer came to us for a better way ...

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