On the personal blog of Sun, President and COO Jonathan Schwartz, published in an article at the end of September 2004: "The HP-UX operating system has taken the end of the road." Schwarz, which has almost no HP-UX, which is almost unsigned. Just like some analysts say, similar words, Schwarz and Sun are not the first time.
But this time, HP will soon make a clear reaction. "After the article, HP even gave Schwarz to the lawyer, claiming that Schwarz is a consciously misleading customer and media, 'This is inappropriate'." April 8 this year, follow Sun John Gage, President and CEO, CEO, CEO, said to China's Sun Chief Scientist John Gage said to reporters, "But Schwarz is not afraid, he not only posted HP's letter to blog, but also said, this is just another Give him a chance to explain further. "
The entanglement and mouth corners of the two sides have no signs of upgrading, people seem to have learned from Sun aggressive. HP can easily laugh at Sun in the last two years, while reiterating the long-term commitment of HP-UX, while continuing to combat business gravity and development ideas while continuing to combine business center and development. "The quarrel may still make more people to see the facts more clearly," "NetWorkWorld" columnist Paul McNamara said, "HP will not win this battle through lawyers, it will not even try Try. "
For SUN, Solaris 10 has been launched in the free posture in November last year. It has entered a key stage in the last two years to get rid of embarrassing situations, and SUNs that have been surrounded by Linux have finally begun to start high-rise weapons. Although Sun does not recognize this. McNile officially revealed the outside world a few days ago: "Sun will fully open Solaris source code before the second quarter of this year." The most fundamental power of this decision comes from "Sun has been adhering to openness and systemic belief." It seems that the long-term pending and giving up quickly around Solaris will soon tell a paragraph. This means a Unix system that will appear, completely open source code? SUN said yes.
"War" prelude
From this point of view, when Sun further changes his living attitude in such a thorough way, a "war" in the global server market is inevitable, and the previous sun and HP's mouth are just a warm-up exercise. Yes. According to Schwarz's view, the result of this operating system is to leave three survivors in the future: Microsoft's Windows, Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux. "Open Solaris and Java, it is likely to play unexpected roles in Sun's long-term strategic positioning." CNET's columnist Paul Murphy is analyzed in the past, "But this opponent is IBM, not Microsoft."
The Linux strategy that IBM is ingenious, and has now developed from the initial direct eating Sun's UNIX server market share to a new stage, especially when Sun is warm and embracing Linux and AMD. "Linux is successful, also reduces the importance of Windows system and Java." Paul Murphy said, "And in fact, while IBM uses Linux overhead Microsoft, the importance of Java's data center role is also affected. This is very disadvantage of Sun, unless Sun can use open Solaris to recover the situation - alienation Microsoft is closer to Linux, put Sun's route is sloppy to open source. "
Free and open source is undoubtedly a maximum effort that has been able to try for Solaris, which once used as a Sun's most core product. As of the end of March, Solaris 10 was put on January 31 to the official website for free download, and more than one million licenses have been issued. According to Sun's official statement, Solaris can already support more than 300 hardware systems, and even news that IBM's Power Platform and Intel's Angar platform will also become Solaris next to receive targets. Liu Binghui, Director of the Government Relations, said in an interview with a reporter that the OpenSolaris.org open source community that is currently designed for maintenance and leading Source Solaris has begun, and has set up a council consisting of five members, of which The two come from Sun, and the three come from industry other open source organizations. After the Solaris on June this year, Solaris will be closer to Linux by Solaris on the end of June this year. To draw users with the huge influence of Solaris in the industry, then earn profits by using the applications on Solaris and Sun's technical support services - such a situation seems to have been getting closer and closer to the benign circulation expected from Sun and McNile. SUN even established a new business consulting service department in early years, SUN has established a company consulting service department, focusing on the packaged Java end-to-end solution platform. In the business model of Solaris itself, Sun also applies the charging model that has been used in JES and JDS to the server -1 US dollar / CPU / hour payment mode, which has a common calculation .
In terms of chips, according to the roadmap released by Sun, after gradually relaxing the control of the SPARC processor, Sun and Fujitsu will continue to go farther in the SPARC architecture, Niagara, APL and ROCK and other chips will In the next few years, we will come out later. "A new generation of APL processors will give RISC large-scale hosts." Sun and Fujitote have maintained a 20-year strategic partnership, McLeneny's continued good cooperation with good cooperation.
"A liux's compatriots brothers"
Open source Solaris is most concerned about its licensing mode. "Open source Solaris and Linux are like a pair of compatriots. If the open source is a line segment, then Sun and Red Hat are different results from the two endpoints. Linux turns into a company's products, while Solaris is From a company's products to open source. "Liu Linghui evaluated Solaris after the opening source. In considering the completely open source of Solaris, "In order to prevent the trouble of encountering the legal disputes received by Liunx, we took a long time to handle all patents and intellectual property issues in Solaris, chose CDDL Authorized license mode. "
Schwarz used to blame the Linux strength as the Red Hat, "Technology Colonialism", I think that the licensing mode of LINUX has complied with the license mode GPL has a large limit: "Under GPL (Liunx), all developers must Take their labor results unconditionally. This model is more suitable for use in the leading area similar to the United States. "John Gage tells reporters, and GPL compared to the open source code-based modification, CDDL (Common Development and Distribution Lisnce) mode can "let people with innovative ability to protect their innovation."
According to the requirements of CDDL, any modification or expansion of the open source code must also be open, but the new programs and plugins developed based on the open source program do not need to open their code. "This allows developers to be profitable, they can work in open source environment, and there is also a chance to rely on their intellectual property to get competitive advantage, and then obtain profits." Paul Murphy has been evaluated, "this will put a lot of Linux Developers attracted the Solaris camp, because Solaris can naturally compatible with Linux applications so that developers can develop Linux applications under Sun's license protection, and then enter the SUN SPARC market. "" Attract more A good developer is of course a good strategy. "Gartner's analyst George Weiss wrote in its research report," In fact, this is the situation you want to see when Sun is ready to open the Solaris source code. " Sun can continue to invest in the open source, then OpenSolaris may become the most successful enterprise strategy example in history, "Paul Murphy continues," of course is in the case of good luck. "
"A liux's compatriots brothers"
Open source Solaris is most concerned about its licensing mode. "Open source Solaris and Linux are like a pair of compatriots. If the open source is a line segment, then Sun and Red Hat are different results from the two endpoints. Linux turns into a company's products, while Solaris is From a company's products to open source. "Liu Linghui evaluated Solaris after the opening source. In considering the completely open source of Solaris, "In order to prevent the trouble of encountering the legal disputes received by Liunx, we took a long time to handle all patents and intellectual property issues in Solaris, chose CDDL Authorized license mode. "
Schwarz used to blame the Linux strength as the Red Hat, "Technology Colonialism", I think that the licensing mode of LINUX has complied with the license mode GPL has a large limit: "Under GPL (Liunx), all developers must Take their labor results unconditionally. This model is more suitable for use in the leading area similar to the United States. "John Gage tells reporters, and GPL compared to the open source code-based modification, CDDL (Common Development and Distribution Lisnce) mode can "let people with innovative ability to protect their innovation."
According to the requirements of CDDL, any modification or expansion of the open source code must also be open, but the new programs and plugins developed based on the open source program do not need to open their code. "This allows developers to be profitable, they can work in open source environment, and there is also a chance to rely on their intellectual property to get competitive advantage, and then obtain profits." Paul Murphy has been evaluated, "this will put a lot of Linux Developers attracted the Solaris camp, because Solaris can naturally compatible with Linux applications so that developers can develop Linux applications under Sun's license protection, and then enter the SUN SPARC market. "" Attract more A good developer is of course a good strategy, "Gartner's analyst George Weiss wrote in its research report," in fact, this is the situation you want to see when SUN is ready to open Solaris source code. "
"If Sun can continue to invest in an open source, OpenSolaris may become an example of the most successful enterprise strategy in history." Paul Murphy continues, "of course is in the case of good luck."
