Is Sun Turning against Linux and Red Hat?

An Elephant writes "Groklaw is reporting, based on a ZDNet UK story, that Sun's strategy for survival in the near future is based on trying to equate Linux with Red Hat, and then attack Red Hat as too small to support enterprises. This seems strange -- Sun is selling a Linux distro itself (the Java Desktop System). As I write this, there's no mention of this on Sun's website -- neither confirmation nor denial. What's going on?"

Good god! Sun makes a heel turn!

[Anonymous Coward]

Sun has just nailed Red Hat and Linux with a steel chair! Oh no! It's SCO... and SCO is raising Sun's hand! What does this mean?! This can only be settled at Linuxmania!

Baaahhhh

[Anonymous Coward]

/.ers never really needed sun anyway. Its all indoors and its nice here. Wait. Which sun are we talking about here?

Re:turning linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

I have also tried nearly every distro out there and finally settled upon debian which created apt. It just feels cleaner.... Gnomes does rock.

Re:turning linux?

[nihilogos]

Type 'cat /dev/core' at a shell. Then see what you have to say about Red Hat.

what?!

[nomadic]

As I write this, there's no mention of this on Sun's website -- neither confirmation nor denial. What's going on?"

Are you serious?! Sun isn't posting their future strategies on a publicly accessible website?!?!? THAT'S INSANE!!

Sun's plan in the short term

[Anonymous Coward]

is to gradually lose all of their customers by taking the middle of the road in all cases, until they promptly run themselves out of business.

Now your failure is complete

[stinky wizzleteats]

By collapsing Linux into Red Hat, Sun now has a clear target. It can hammer away at a company, as opposed to waging the impossible task of fighting a social movement.

Dear Red Hat,
I bet the decision to abandon the social movement (Bluecurve, Fedora) and become a "clear target" looks a little different from where you stand now, doesn't it?

Re:No surprise here...

[metlin]

The world of business makes for odd enemies and bedfellows.

Absolutely! No Windows, no Sun... we geeks don't need this when we have Slashdot to bathe us in it's nice warm green light.

Yummm. Usss likessses ittt.

Who cares?

[ikekrull]

Sun have about as much chance of impacting Linux's momentum as SCO do.

I mean, what are they gonna do, refuse to release the specs for their new CPUs so Linux can't run on them?

I bet the managment at Redhat are losing lots of sleep over that.

Re:turning linux?

[sirReal.83.]

Red Hat sells service contracts on top of 100% Free Software.
Microsoft sells snake oil.

Re:Death of commercial Unix flavours...

[Kehvarl]

but speaking of unixen boxen might annoyxen some peoplexen, and confusexen others... xen.