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Disgruntled Solaris x86 Users Turn Up Heat on Sun
"Sun has now obsoleted [my] x86 hardware investment," Al Hopper, president of Logical Approach Inc., of Plano, Texas, told eWeek last week. Hopper's company bought several dual-processor x86 systems from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. last year. "We can't afford to scrap our hardware infrastructure just because Sun decides [Solaris on x86] wasn't a viable product or that they could make more money elsewhere." More: eWeek
Posted 2002-09-11, 23:38 GMT by Mariusz Zynel
Solaris users slam Sun Intel plans (again)
Sun Microsystems Inc is still facing protests from unhappy Solaris x86 users despite announcing the resurrection of the Unix operating system for Intel Corp-compatible processors at last month's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, Matthew Aslett writes.
More: The Register
Posted 2002-09-06, 18:55 GMT by Mariusz Zynel
Sun declines user's challenge to debate Solaris x86
SUN MICROSYSTEMS HAS responded to an angry user's public challenge to debate the future of a version of the Solaris operating system for Intel processors, saying the company is working on the issue in private and chastising the user for attacking Sun chief Scott McNealy. John Loiacono, an executive vice president at Sun, defended the company in an e-mail message Wednesday to the disgruntled user. The user, John Groenveld, associate research engineer at Penn State University, posted an open letter entitled "Shame on you, Scott," in the Tuesday edition of the San Jose Mercury. More: InfoWorld
Posted 2002-09-06, 18:50 GMT by Mariusz Zynel
Sun draws heat over Solaris roadblock
In an open letter to Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, a group of users has called for the company to make Solaris 9 available on the lion's share of computers based on the Intel architecture. The letter, published as an ad in the San Jose Mercury News and titled "Shame on you, Scott", is the latest move in an eight-month war of words between Sun and a vocal contingent of its users. The spat kicked off in January when the software maker said it would put its next operating system, Solaris 9, on indefinite hold for the x86 architecture. More: News.com
Posted 2002-09-04, 17:28 GMT by Mariusz Zynel
Solaris on Intel Debate Rages On
The brouhaha between Sun Microsystems Inc. and the Solaris on Intel user community took another turn this week. A half-page advertisement in Tuesday's San Jose Mercury News, titled "Shame on you, Scott," is the latest salvo in the battle to have Sun release its Solaris 9 operating environment for non-Sun hardware. More: eWeek
Posted 2002-09-04, 17:21 GMT by Mariusz Zynel
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