Forgive me for being a Scott McNealy fan, but I really can't help it. Scott
and the crew at Sun have done a great job over the years producing what I
consider to be really good products. Scott has also provided much-needed
entertainment in the form of some very quotable quotes (who was there for his
presentation that started with a single cloth-covered box that could run all
of the OSes that Microsoft sold? When he uncovered the box it was an overhead
projector - classic McNealy). And those that know me or have heard me speak
know that I am an open source fan, nay, an open source bigot. Hence my
quandary. Solaris for x86 is (and has been for how long?) open source. Yet, I
can't help but feel that the folks at Sun are missing the boat.
Yeah, so we can run Sx86 on desktop hardware. We can even buy that hardware
from Sun. Suppose, for just a moment, that we could run Sx... (more)