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[Fred A. Miller]

HARDWARE LOSSES DOOMED SUN BUT LINUX HURT TOO
http://go.techtarget.com/r/6818429/1461419
Pam Derringer, News Contributor

Less than six years after Sun Microsystems' then-CEO Scott McNealy
sneered at Linux as a "hobbyist," build-your-own-jalopy solution, it
appears that the mighty Penguin is going to beat the formerly $14
billion Santa Clara, Calif.-based colossus to the finish line. And
the much-trashed prediction of Linux Foundation Executive Director
Jim Zemlin last fall that  "the future is Linux and Microsoft, not
Unix or Solaris," appears to be a race-winning bet.

Now that money-losing Sun has gratefully agreed to be swallowed by
Redwood Shores, Calif.-basedOracle Corp. for $7.4 billion this
summer, it's fair to ask: Did Linux cause Sun's downfall?

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http://go.techtarget.com/r/6818430/1461419

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