Archive for November, 2004

Free Beer, Free OS.

Monday, November 15th, 2004

It looks like today’s a big Sun Microsystems news day, what with the announcement of the rollout of Solaris 10. But hold it–Solaris isn’t shipping until January? They’re not announcing open-source Solaris today? What the heck are they announcing that’s news?

They’re going to make Solaris for X86 free. I guess that’s the news.

And apparently, the best news is yet to come. Next month. Sometime. I think.

Sun-day on Monday

Monday, November 15th, 2004

It looks like today's a big Sun Microsystems news day, what with the announcement of the rollout of Solaris 10. But hold it–Solaris isn't shipping until January? They're not announcing open-source Solaris today? What the heck are they announcing that's news?

They're going to make Solaris for X86 Solaris for X86 free. I guess that's the news.