Winners and Losers in Dell Deal with Sun

"If you had asked me what computer vendor was the least likely to start offering Solaris on its servers, I would have said Dell or HP. Whoops. I sure got that one wrong.

"Sun has really changed its tune from back in 2003, when it was dismissing Dell, Linux and open source. Today, Sun sells Red Hat and Novell Linux, has open-sourced both its main operating system, OpenSolaris and programming language, Java, and, yes, Sun is now partnering with Dell..."

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