No GNOME For Solaris 9

Nailer writes: "Subject says it all really. A (very brief) Linuxgram article claims GNOME 2.0 won't be ready for Solaris 9 and the OS will ship with CDE and Motif as defaults. I'm just waiting for the inevitable announcement the GTK port of OpenOffice has been cancelled."

Re:No, no, no

[Anonymous Coward]

Solaris has *NO* license fees that I have ever seen. I am in a shop with over 24 Exxx class boxes and we pay $0.00 for OS licensing. Upgrades from Sol7 to Sol8 to Sol9 are free. You have to keep in mind that Sun primarily sells hardware, so the cost of their OS and software is hidden in the cost of $200K 'Enterprise' servers that would cost $50K in the WinTel world.

Deja vu

[garver]

This post freaked me out. Just replace "Sun" with "IBM" and "Java" with "OS/2" and it sounds like something I heard over and over 6 years ago. Damn if it didn't come true.

I love Java, much like I loved OS/2. They are/were great technologies; there just wasn't anything else that kept up. In 1995, Windows 95 was on the horizon... and the end of OS/2 was coming.

So here we are in 2001, talking about how Sun's right hand isn't working with the left hand, much like IBM in 1995... and .NET on the horizon.

Tell me it'll be all right, mommy.