Re: [cobalt-users] Sun's Operating System Strategy whitepaper

[Anders <andersb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Timberlake wrote:
> http://wwws.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris9/opsys_strategy.pdf

> "Sun is changing its Linux strategy to better capitalize on the strength and
> market penetration of existing platforms and leverage community efforts. Gone
> is a custom Linux. Instead, Sun is delivering Linux from Sun ? standard
> distributions of Linux tightly integrated with its Sun ONE product family and
> Java valued-added software to complement the Solaris OS product line and
> extend the reach of our end-to-end infrastructure."

This was before they named the new distro: Red Hat Enterprise Linux...
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2003-05/sunflash.20030519.4.html

Sun will be selling and supporting standard RedHat (while pushing Solaris),
instead of their previous "Sun Linux 5.0" distribution (a.k.a. RedHat 7.2)

They don't even mention "Cobalt" anymore, less plan anything new for them ?
(the RaQ 1-4, RaQ XTR and RaQ 550 are all built upon bits of RedHat 4.2-7.2)

--anders