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Fleury on open source "girly men"

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JBoss honcho Mark Fleury: First of all, I am pissed off that there is a blog war with SUN in which I have no part to play. It annoys me given my long nasty history there. [...] RH is a PACKAGER, not a technology house. How do they DARE call SUN on technology innovation [...] So to me both SUN and RH are open source "wannabees", or as one of my developers put "open source girly men."
Fleury admits that feels left out of the so called "blog war" between Sun and Redhat, uses the occasion to vent all of his Red Hat grievances, and finally remembers to spew some bile in Sun's direction. Ain't blogs grand?


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<p>So which is it at Sun?</p> <p><i>"We love Red Hat last year, we hate Red Hat this year."</i></p> <p><i>"We love Solaris x86 this year, we're not planning on supporting Solaris x86 last year."</i></p> <p><i>"We love Linux, but we fund SCO and its lawsuit, and refuse to protect OpenOffice users from Microsoft patent suits."</i></p> </p>Looks like the love is tied only to profits, nothing else. Red Hat regularly puts its Open Source money where its mouth is. Yeah, their new licensing sucks, but they give more than they take. Can Sun say the same?</p> <p>Sun has worked hard to lose my trust. I've been burned on Solaris x86 support. I've lost sleep over non-ECC cache and bad RAM, both problems Sun knew about, but kept secret from me, their customer.</p> <p>When I didn't like what Red Hat went and did, I started using SuSE and Centos.</p> <p>What exit strategy do I have with Sun? Switch to Linux? Why not just start where I'm going to end up?</p> <p>Sun isn't just Open Source "girly-men", the waffling flip-flop message coming through loud and clear.</p>

Posted by John Beimler on September 28, 2004 at 10:37 PM EDT #

...and John uses the occasion to vent all of his Sun grievances. Let it go John. Let it all out!

Posted by Dave Johnson on September 29, 2004 at 12:46 AM EDT #

I'm still waiting for Sun to take a LEAD role for once. Why are they always several months late in the game? They were late with webservices, linux, and now open source. Even IBM saw far greater potential Java than Sun was in the beginner. Frankly, I'm frustrated with Sun. They need to let go the commodity hardware market and concentrate on software and open source services.

Posted by jeff on September 29, 2004 at 02:36 AM EDT #

Dave, that should be Red Hat with a space, not RedHat.

Posted by Jesus M. Rodriguez on October 01, 2004 at 05:27 PM EDT #

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