“At a recent Sun Microsystems press event, Sun execs talked up
plans to market the company’s Solaris Unix OS to startups and
small-to-midsize businesses. ‘Open source is what [customers] want
to go after,’ said Peder Ulander, Sun’s vice president of software
marketing. ‘It’s not so much Linux. Linux just happens to embody
open source.’“If that’s true, then Sun should be in good shape. Solaris has
been open source for two years now, and Sun is slowly but surely
moving its entire software portfolio to an open source model. And
yet, all the momentum still seems to be behind Linux…”