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Ian Murdock: Making Solaris more like Linux

Eight days into his tenure at Sun, newly minted Chief Operating Platforms Officer Ian Murdock took the stage at the SDForum event, "Platform 2.0: The Next Generation" in Santa Clara. The founder of Linux distro Debian in 1993, Murdock made the jump to Sun and appears to be charged with...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Ian Murdock, Linux, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., operating system

Blog posts 2007-03-27

Linux power lunch: Debian founder visits Microsoft

Ian Murdock, the chief technology officer of the recently formed Linux Foundation created from the merger of ODL and the Free Standards Group is set to address a group of Microsoft employees on February 20. The subject of Murdocks "Invited Speaker Series" talk: The Debian Linux distribution. ...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Linux, Novell

Blog posts 2007-02-20

Ian Murdock, cat herder

On Monday, the Free Standards Group will launch a new version of the Linux Standard Base. AP broke an embargo on this story Saturday, but I've been sitting on an interview with FSG CTO Ian Murdock since Thursday and there's one word from that interview that stands out.Endurance. In other...

Tags: LSB, Ian Murdock

Blog posts 2006-04-22

Ian Murdock on the Debian Core Consortium and Ubuntu Foundation

Yesterday, I promised a follow-up on the Ubuntu Foundation and comments from Debian Founder and Progeny Chairman and Chief Strategist Ian Murdock. One of the things that was up in the air yesterday was the possible creation of an "enterprise" Debian distribution. An eWeek story...

Tags: Debian, Ian Murdock

Blog posts 2005-07-12

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What drives customer demand for Solaris/x86? Fear of failure

I think the short answer to "what happened to growth in the OpenSolaris community" is Ian Murdock; but the longer answer is that growth continues but enthusiasm lags and the commercial applications market has become more a defensive one than a leading edge one. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Growth, Paul Murphy, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel X86, Sun Sparc, Systems Story, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Processors, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

Blog posts 2008-10-15

What's wrong at OpenSolaris

The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-15

OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up

What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...

Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., BSD, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-05

Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?

You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. That seems to be the mantra of Ubuntu and Sun, both open source underdogs whose relationship and mutual platform support has been growing for three years.  On the eve of the release of OpenSolaris, both companies are banging the drum that the...

Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-02

The missing demonstration project (1)

The missing demonstration project (1)Where is everybody? you guys wanna talk weather, or what?Very strange here in Lethbridge: -19 Celsius here yesterday afternoon, went to plus 5.6 by about 9PM, back to minus 14.7 right now.A blowby chinook?Yes, I have seen it over and over. Do you want to oversee...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Unix, Debian, Sun Ray

Discussion threads 2007-12-04

Linux vs. Unix (Cost)

Linux vs. Unix CostUnix/Linux distinction a mistake?Linux is cheaper than Unix. Whether an observation or a perception, buyers believe that in making choices. That's the reason Linux server sales have been primarily Unix replacements. Calling that a change within the same family is reasonable. There's a...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Unix, hobbyist

Discussion threads 2007-11-30

Can OpenSolaris become an alternative to enterprise Linux?

Sun's "open source road map" is to make OpenSolaris a viable alternative to enterprise Linux through a simpler install package and alliances in the enterprise open source space. The featured speaker for yesterday's open source summit at the Santa Clara headquarters was Debian founder Ian Murdock, who joined...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Idea, PostgreSQL, Murdock, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-16

Morton: no merging of OpenSolaris with Linux

Don't expect to see key features of OpenSolaris showing up in the Linux kernel, said a top  Linux maintainer.At his LinuxWorld opening keynote, Andrew Morton made it very clear that the appointment of former OSDL CTO and Debian co-founder Ian Murdock to Sun's OS platforms organization will not translate into a merging between the open...

Tags: Linux, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-08-07

Torvalds doesn't live in Indiana

The trouble with the worker's paradise idea is that it takes a dictator to make it happen - meaning that the happier the workers and useful idiots proclaim themselves, the worse off they are likely to actually be.Conversely a functioning democracy often shows the opposite effect: the more whining and...

Tags: Sun, Linux, General

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Could Microsoft take a community lesson from Sun?

Microsoft talks a lot about community and wanting to foster/tap into it. But there really is no single, cohesive "Microsoft community," akin to the Linux community. The reasons for this are many and varied. A dominant market player-- vs. an up-and-coming underdog -- seems to inspire less vocal customer/developer...

Tags: Systems integrators, System builders, Resellers, OEMs, Novell, Network service providers, Linux, Corporate strategy, Channel

Blog posts 2007-05-09

Sun and Canonical to distribute Java with Ubuntu Linux

A complete Sun Java stack, including Java SE 6, GlassFish, JavaDB, and NetBeans, is now available with the latest release of Ubuntu v7.04 Feisty Fawn. Users can find it in the "multiverse" repository and install the packages just like any other Ubuntu programs, according to Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth."Last November...

Tags: Sun, Licenses, Programming, NetBeans, Linux, Java, General, Community, Commercial

Blog posts 2007-04-18

NetBeans Day subsumed by CommunityOne

To reflect an increasing emphasis on open technologies at Sun, NetBeans Day will have to scoot over a bit to make room for several other topics on the day before JavaOne (May 7, 2007).The free one-day event, now called CommunityOne, is designed for developers to gain technical information on free...

Tags: Sun, Programming, NetBeans, Java, General, Community

Blog posts 2007-04-10

News to know: Metasploit; CS3; Yahoo Mail's storage; Linux hates Ed Bott

Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Metasploit 3.0 ships with 177 exploits, 104 payloads. Gallery: Metasploit reloaded right.Yahoo Mail to offer unlimited storage. Techmeme discussion.Guest blogger Christopher Lochhead details customer service in "Click here to access our broken Web site, press one to be ignored."Phil Wainwright: How does Twitter not make money?Donna Bogatin:...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Xbox, storage, Linux, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Mail

Blog posts 2007-03-28

Ian Murdock: Making Solaris more like Linux

Ian Murdock: Making Solaris more like LinuxMessage has been deleted.Its about timeI use Solaris at work and the CDE desktop has always been horrible. Then they added GNOME in Solaris 9 but it was a separate install. Then came Solaris 10 and everything had to have "Java" in...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Sun Solaris, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-03-28

Will Glassfish Validate Schwartz' Open Source Strategy?

Will Glassfish Validate Schwartz' Open Source Strategy?Yep, it's helpingSun just had their first "officially" profitable quarter in like 5 years.And look at their software business until recently. When they were selling proprietary licenses of various products, they weren't generating much revenue or profit. They were nosediving, and license...

Tags: Operational accounting, Java, Schwartz, revenue, Open Source Strategy, Project GlassFish, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-20

News to know: Apple vs. researchers; Drop 'IP' from VOIP; Local search

Notable headlines: George Ou: How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers.More Apple coverage: Larry Dignan: Apple TV an $11.4 billion market? Techmeme discussion.WSJ: Apple Opens Doors by Running Windows.George Ou: Should Apple be making fun of Vista UAC?Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Design the next generation iPod. Jason OGrady: Portable users: heed the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), VoIP, IP, Apple Computer Inc., David Berlind, Microsoft Windows Vista, local search

Blog posts 2007-03-20