Vamos lá: JavaOne!

IBM e Sun estão aparando várias arestas. A IBM suportará sim o Solaris 10 em equipamentos Sparc e AMD. Ponto pra Sun. A IBM anunciou a renovação do contrato de licenciamento do Java por mais 10 anos. 10 pontos pra Sun. Isso não quer dizer que a IBM tenha perdido alguma coisa. Muito pelo contrário. E, das arestas relevantes, só faltou jogar o NetBeans no balaio do Eclipse... só?

Depende do ponto de vista e do provocador. Tem uma figurinha carimbada no TalkBack da ZDNet que é uma peça. Assina com o singelo pseudônimo 'No_Ax_to_Grind'. Saca só alguns de seus comentários acerca do coadjuvante ilustre do JavaOne (o Solaris):

I have yet to find a *nix user anywhere that didn't sing the technical praises of Solaris. Simply put it may be the best version of Unix in the market and is several steps ahead of Linux in core areas. (Scalability, Stability, and Extensibility)

IBM has pledged itslf to open source for obvious reasons, it's free and gets a ton of free labor put in it. But with the release of Solaris under an open source license, it would be nuts for IBM to not look at it. I believe when they are done looking they will see a free OS, tons of free labor going in to it, and a better OS from day one.

The three way battle between IBM, Microsoft, and Sun may once again morph to a new battle ground. Can you imagine a day when IBM and Microsoft argue who supports Solaris best? Don't laugh, it could just happen...

Quando questionado por tão apresentar tal teoria 'a la Cringely', ele respondeu:

Hmmm, MS does support Unix (BSD) on the Mac with MS Office and IE. Given the relationship between Sun and MS I can see it happening, especially when MS has already agreed to work with Sun on StarOffice compatibility. Politics makes very strange bed fellows....