From: "John Beamish" 

Scott McNealy and Steve Jobs ... one would have to be head honcho and the
other would be second banana.  Can I sell tickets?

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:03:59 -0400, Ad
 wrote:

> Pondering the recent trajectories of Solaris & OSX......
>
> inc the close relationship wrt java, ZFS, & possibly Open Office.....
>
> Given the similarities at a low level of OSX & Solaris....
>
> Given their lack of overlap in market segments.....i.e. OSX basically
> being a desktop BSD derivative & Solaris being a server bsd derivative
> (OK maybe a Stanford Std Distrib derivative)....
>
> one sees itself as the content creator patform & one the content
> delivery platform (dot in dot com etc etc).....
>
> Heck even their HQ'es are reasonably close together....
>
> Imagine a Solaris 10/11 with the OSX desktop, a specific version of
> OpenOffice etc as it's Office suite etc.etc.
>
> Sun can look after the hardware to console end of things & Apple can
> take it from console to GUI....
>
>
> Adam

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