Sun is backing off from an effort to sell Linux for desktop computers. JDS will continue to exist as a product, but now only for Solaris OS. Unlike before, where JDS was touted as the alternative desktop (with mediocre fanfare) for every user, now, only programmers are targetted for its use.
Sun's flip-flops is no surprise at all. Three years ago, Sun launched the JDS project. JDS was a combination of a server and workstation cost-effective alternative to MS Windoze. The product quickly lost momentum. How would you compete with the likes of SuSe, Red Hat, Debian and Fedora?
So, this is the beginning of the end of JDS for Linux. Good riddance. JDS for Linux was a crap. It is no better than a re-badged SuSe. It is on the same yucky stuff like Linspire and Xandros.
I firmly believe that Linux will be very succesfull on servers, but only a handful of techies will be able to use it in desktop space for a long time. 'Guess this is why Sun is backing off.
One scheming story in my mind is that Sun might be afraid to challenge its newfound friend, the giant Microsoft. Tsk tsk tsk, it is very obvious indeed.
For me, Fedora, the best-loved by techies Linux distro, is the king of hill.
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