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

[Chris Hilton]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong here but:  Not only is Solaris not Linux, it 
doesn't have gnu binutils either.  So it lacks all that marks Linux as Linux 
and not BSD.

I'm sure you could install gnu utils though.

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 16:59, 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
>
>
>
>   _____
>
> 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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