Sun goes down on Red Hat
LINUX HEADWARE FIRM "Red Hat" is fuming at the way that Sun is pitching it's release of Solaris 10 earlier this week.
Though Sun resells Red Hat's software, the firms are growing increasingly hostile as they compete for the same set of customers.
Now Sun has openly said that it sees the new version of Solaris as a tilt at Red Hat which it sees as sitting in the space that it wants to occupy.
Red Hat has seen the moves coming for a while. Its opening shots have been to fly a plane over Sun's Solaris launch with a banner with a banner with the Red Hat logo.
On it was a saying from Mohandas Gandhi: "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."
Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik has gone on record as saying he doesn't think Sun marketers would ever target Linux because that would lose them a lot of friends in the Open Source industry. Instead they are going to target Red Hat, he thinks and added the jibe that Sun's record on Linux and open-source is erratic.
