[NBLUG TALK] Cobalt bought...Sun changing OS?

[JC Jaros]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Dustin Mollo wrote:

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> they were going to keep Cobalt as a separate group doin' their own thing.  I
> had hoped that would allow Cobalt to continue using what they wanted.

Sun paid $2 billion for a company that has a current year revenue forecast
of $68 *million (per HQ). Their plan, although absent of detail until
everyone's dressed and posing in their deal closing suits, is to turn
Cobalt (simple, EZ to to admin server appliance with zero dollar, open
standards OS) into a full-on, disruptive technology aimed squarely at the
pricey, sucky, needlessly complex and bloated old-time proprietary Wintel
'Enterprise Bob' PC/server (and snagging even more *nix mindshare in the
process). It's 'death from above' ...from below. <g>

Even if Sun ends up choosing, for whatever reason, to replace Linux with
Solaris inside those appliances, it remains no less a 'Linux' story. (IMO)

-JCJ