[ Thanks to Doug
Bostrom for this link. ]
“Sun Microsystems has tapped Linuxcare to create software to
allow Linux computers to take advantage of Sun’s new T3 data
storage device, the companies said today. A four-person team at
Linuxcare created the driver, which will be released in a week and
a half at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, said Linuxcare chief
technology officer Dave Sifry. The driver will be released under
the General Public License…”
“The contract, along with this week’s announcement of Sun’s
second investment in Linuxcare, is a vote of confidence for
Linuxcare, a provider of technical support, consulting and other
services for the operating system.”
“While a single driver is minor in the vast universe of
computing, it’s symbolic for Sun, which has been lukewarm about
Linux. Linux, a clone of Unix and therefore a cousin of Sun’s
Solaris operating system, has been embraced by competitors such as
IBM, Intel, Dell Computer, Compaq Computer and Hewlett-Packard. Sun
chief operating officer Ed Zander, though, has said Linux servers
have been eating into sales of low-end Sun servers; he also has
said Sun will focus its operating system development on
Solaris.”