LinuxPlanet: Sun Gives Red Hat, Novell Their Niagara Marching Orders

“Sun Microsystems is ‘talking publicly’ this week with both Red
Hat and Novell SuSE about doing native ports of their respective
Linux distributions to the high-powered and relatively low-priced
RISC-based T1000 and T2000 Fire Servers rolled out in New York on
Tuesday.

“‘But when I say ‘talking publicly,’ I mean we are talking to
them through you,’ Mike Splain, chief technologist in Sun’s
Scalable Systems Group, in a meeting with LinuxPlanet at Sun’s
full-day dog-and-pony show in Manhattan.

“‘We want Red Hat and SuSE to do native ports,’ Splain told
LinuxPlanet…”

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