"Sun has launched an all out offensive today against Red Hat Linux, putting Solaris x86 at the tip of its bayonet.

'We are a big supporter of the open source movement and have been forever,' said Larry Singer, SVP of global market strategies at Sun, in an interview. 'We think Linux is a huge movement that is pretty good for the industry and that for some implementations Linux makes sense. We also think there are a lot of people that consider Red Hat for the wrong reasons.'

...The sum total of all this is that Sun will, for the first time, have serious hardware for running Solaris x86 and, in particular, Solaris 10. And nothing could be more key to Sun's future than having a thriving Solaris franchise on x86 machines, since no other major vendor has a competing version of Unix on these systems. Sun is arguing that the industry as a whole got caught up in the Linux hype, which has started to die down, Singer said."

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