“Moving to maintain its hold on the Internet, Sun Microsystems
Inc. said today that Solaris 8, the latest version of its operating
system, would ship on Feb. 28….”
“Chris LeToq, an analyst with the Gartner Group, said: “Sun
understands very clearly what they’re driving at, and it’s owning
the high-reliability service space. What Sun is saying, and I
believe them, is the requirements for that kind of server are
moving up even as we speak….”
“Analysts predicted that the move would have little impact
on Linux users and that developers would more likely be held back
by the cost of purchasing a Sun workstation than by the cost of a
software license for developing programs that run on
Solaris.“
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