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Solaris was technically better, no question, but linux got "good enough" and for most customers that put expensuve Sun licences out of the question. Back then,

Solaris was technically better, no question, but linux got "good enough" and for most customers that put expensuve Sun licences out of the question. Back then, Microsoft saw sun as a major competitor, I don't think its out of the question they would have tried selling Unix again. They did in the 1980s.

panick21_ 5y ago
In my mind Solaris was Open in mid-2000s but now looking it up it was only in the later 2000s when it opened up. Yeah, it would have need to be Open. > Back then, Microsoft saw sun as a major competitor, I don't think its out of the question they would have tried selling Unix again. They did in the 1980s. I don't really see it. The competition was mostly in the server space. If Microsoft wanted to adopt UNIX to compete why would Sun buying Apple have change anything?