Indeed. In this case they have some excellent hardware (imo overpriced) with the OS and hardware being finely tuned to each other. And advantages in some important departments. When it was closed these together meant very little to anybody. But opening might just change that.
True. In fact Sun seems to be opening up a lot of things :-) Around early last year they agreed to ship Ubuntu server on some of their AMD 64 boxes, then wonder of wonders Java is free and no longer ``shackled". The best part is - its NOT as if the company is highly in debt and ready to file for bankruptcy and is doing this as a face saving measure. They are doing it of their own free will.
Also differences in linux and slolaris will drop as
ideas migrate both ways. Solaris may morph itself into linux rather than die a writhing death like novell netware.
True. i hope Apple is listening :-D
Regards,
- vihan