UNIX consultant Paul Murphy tackled the question of what sense it makes for Sun to give away product as it does with the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). His ZDNet.com blog is entitled "Who owns Solaris?."
When Scott McNealy came on at Sun in 1984, because the board voted to give themselves veto power over his retention for five years, it turns out his status amounted to being a temporary employee. That "temporary"
status continued for 22 years because, as he told Marketplace reporter Kai Ryssdal, it took that long to find an appropriate successor in Jonathan Schwartz.
Sun's Customer Engineering Conference (CEC) 2006 was held in San Francisco in early October. It is a technical gathering of customer-facing engineers. There were demonstrations on Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) adoption, Sun Cluster 3.2 and ZFS. Links are available online for video and photos.
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