One open-source solution provider said Microsoft and Sun are merely banding together to stop their respective financial and legal nightmares.
"I doubt it [will] hurt Linux," said Chris Maresca, a principal at Olliance Consulting Group. "Sun has just started selling Linux PCs at Wal-Mart, so they seem pretty committed to Linux. Sun's strategy is most likely Linux on the desktop and low-end servers, Solaris for the back office and data center. This deal was all about Microsoft's problems with the European Union and trying to tie up all those loose ends, especially since Sun got everything it wanted."
"I think Microsoft is starting realize that it cannot fully combat open
source and this gives them some ties to that community,' said Michael Goldstein, vice president at LAN Associates, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "It also aligns them with a strategic Unix type partner against the IBM/Novell/Linux world."
Other solution providers said the deal is good for channel business.
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