Ian Murdock Joins Sun 123
RLiegh sends us the second piece of news today featuring Debian founder Ian Murdock. In an entry on his blog, Murdock announced that he is joining Sun Microsystems as their chief operating platforms officer. As he put it in his opensolaris post, this "...basically means I'll be in charge of Sun's operating system strategy, spanning Solaris and Linux." In all likelihood one of his first priorities will be "closing the usability gap" between Solaris and Linux.
Re:Replacement Gap (Score:5, Informative)
You speak like Solaris Desktop was considered an alternative home desktop OS and Linux took all userbase.
Solaris is alive and well doing number crunching/CAD/Medical/Military work around the World. It is just not too easy to see it running in neighbourhood.
Re:What usability gap? (Score:4, Informative)
Already is one. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Shooting too low, again. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What usability gap? (Score:1, Informative)
http://www.softpanorama.org/Articles/solaris_vs_l