Comments on: Microsoft-Free PC: Where's Sun?

By: sexy sofie

sexy sofie — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:50:32 +0000

where’s mandriva?

By: aikiwolfie

aikiwolfie — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:47:15 +0000

I don’t think Suns apparent absence is that big a deal. Where are Novell in all of this? Sun Microsystems and Novell have both had long standing love/hate relationships with Microsoft. Is it really that surprising Sun aren’t involved?

We could equally ask where a few of the other big(ish) names in Linux are? Where are the likes of Gentoo and Xandros? Where’s the company that does Linos for Elonex? Where are Debian for that matter? Ubuntu is built from a Debian base.

By: Mr Root

Mr Root — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:10:34 +0000

Ahem, Mr VarGuy,
Do you really, … , REALLY asking the one company which always and from the beginning made M$ free workstations and servers why they did not chime in into this marketing “bull****”?

Do you know how M$ hostile SUN in their history was?
Just in the last several years – beginning with the time where SUN lost much money after the internet bubble – they got more M$ friendly.
But the jokes of McNealy about M$, Bill and Steve are things Unix “fanboys” tell even today.

Yes, IBM had also always a big department of UNIX and even a more disconnected world from PCs – mainframes – but they were long time also big partners of M$.
IBM always danced at many weddings.
SUN did not.

And even today where SUN even delivers the one or the other workstation with Windows they are M$ hostile by pushing Open Source at many levels.
Which company made a real UNIX Open Source?
Which company made the one Office Suite Open Source which gets on every live CD of the 733t k1Ds ?
Which company made THE language and platform and framework used in the businesses Open Source?

You know, SUN doesn’t need such marketing things what IBM made with RedHat and Canonical.

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By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:40:45 +0000

I can’t see the big deal about the “Microsoft free PC” anyway, it just looks to me like IBM is bundling Lotus-whateva for the major Linux distros. So what? If contributing an office suite constitutes some big new “push” or “initiative”, then I guess Sun has been doing “MS free PC” for years now.

From my perspective, IBM is just coming in a day late and a dollar short: I fail to see how their contribution to the situation really changes the desktop linux landscape, and in any case Lotus is not FOSS. It’s just freeware that happens to run on Linux.