OSNews: Jonathan Schwartz: Solaris is the Future of Unix | Linux Today

OSNews: Jonathan Schwartz: Solaris is the Future of Unix

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 30, 2004

“We had the pleasure of having a quick chat with Sun’s COO,
Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday. We talked about a variety of things,
including Java, Solaris, Red Hat and good ol’ Unix.

“Jonathan reminded us that the Test-Drive version of Solaris is
available today for everyone to download and try out. The final
version of Solaris (commercial release) will be in January and that
would be the time that the source will be completely opened as
well. He would like to see Solaris scale from small embedded
machines (submarines, hospitals) to big mainframes…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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