Congratulations to my colleagues who were involved in today’s OpenSolaris launch. The biggest single OSS release in history! From Sun!! (A tip o’ the hat to Rob Gingell, wherever he might be.) But surely Microsoft, IBM and HP aren’t going to take this lying down; they’re not going to give in without a fight – are they? C’mon, you guys: I want to see OSS releases of Windows XP, z/OS*, and VMS! And… oh heck, why not throw in OS/2 Warp as well – just for old time’s sake? (But don’t bother with AIX or HP/UX, because… well, I’m sure I don’t need to spell it out.)
And why stop at operating systems? Earth to Larry (probably in his jet somewhere): it’s time to open source Oracle before IBM gets around to opening up DB2. You know it makes sense! In fact, I bet there’s more lines of code in that sucker than everything else put together!!
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* I want to try running z/OS on my laptop. A quad-boot setup with Solaris, Linux, z/OS, and WinXP: that’s a configuration to really get a geek’s pulse racing….