ChannelZone: What Sun Really Wants to Sell in the x86 Market

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"I have a love-hate relationship with Sun Microsystems. I love many of its products and technologies; I hate the way it presents and packages them. I feel like it can hardly manage one step forward without taking a step back. Take, for example, the confusion about the company's operating systems for the x86 market.

"On the one hand, Sun Microsystems Inc. says it favors Linux. On the other, it criticizes its biggest Linux partner, Red Hat Inc..."

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