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Good-bye Solaris? The fate of Sun’s top 5 technologies

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“2) SPARC/SPARC Servers: In three words: SPARC is
history. The high-end SPARC business has been getting knocked
around for ages by low-cost AMD/Intel servers running Linux for
years now. Fujitsu will run what’s left of the SPARC chip and
system business.

“3) Java: Java’s creator, James Gosling, probably won’t like me
saying this, but I’ve long though that IBM did a better job than
Sun with its Java implementation and the Java-related projects it
supported, like Apache Geronimo and Jakarta.”


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