Sun's COO Pretends Linux Belongs To Red Hat

An anonymous reader writes "Ever mindful of minting phrases likely to spread virally through the Net, reports JDJ, Jonathan Schwartz's blogging gifts were used Friday to assert that "it's increasingly evident the OS wars are down to three - Microsoft Windows, Sun's Solaris, and Red Hat's Linux." The article comes up with a new angle on one of the most-talked about members of the tech-exec digerati, saying of Schwartz: "He's the Winston Churchill of technology - he mobilizes the English language at least once a week, and sends it into battle against Sun's rivals." But Churchill would never have tried to pull a fast one by disingenuously describing Linux as "Red Hat's Linux" - the community will upbraid him, for certain. Churchill Schmurchill, Schwartz is a technology mischief-maker not a technology statesmen."

Could be worse...

[WillerZ]

At least he doesn't claim it's Sun's Linux.

SCO's?

[Zentac]

or for that mather SCO's

Sun is evil...

[thrill12]

..burn that Sun, burn it !

Oh wait, ... it already does.

Re:Mac OS X?

[SCSI-Wan]

Apparently Mac OS X is the Switzerland of Operating Systems in this context.

Re:Perhaps he meant something else

[WillerZ]

I just find it amusing that he thinks Solaris is a threat to anything.

The only damage solaris is going to do to any other OS is if you snap the CD in half and use the sharp edge to go on a killing spree among the target developers.

Phil

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My eyeballs just fell off the table.. *groan*

Re:Stupid

[Nate B.]

Or to be even more pedantic, he should have specified the GNU/Linux/XFree|XOrg/Mozilla/OpenOffice/etc. OS.

Ducks!

Duchy of Grand Fenwick Linux rises up in revolt

[gelfling]

Seriously - if we need to soothe the ruffled feathers of every Eskimo language Linux distro that runs on my espresso machine then Microsoft has already obiterated us.

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