“The hardware and software giant, while confirming it will
release the source code to Solaris, its implementation of the Unix
OS, said it is not trying to destroy the growth of the Linux
OS.”
“Linux may have compatibility challenges down the road, but
any adoption of Linux is an adoption of a technology that is closer
to Sun’s technology,” said George Paolini, vice president of
marketing for Sun, speaking at the Intershop summit in New York on
Monday.”
“Some analysts estimate the Linux OS is installed on 10 million
computers. Sun is the leader in the Unix market with 30 percent of
overall Unix server units sold in 1998, up from 9.6 percent in
1996, according to market research company Dataquest, in San Jose,
Calif.”