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| May 19, 2003 | O'Gara, Maureen | COPYRIGHT 2009 G2 Computer Intelligence. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Sun CEO Scott McNealy on Monday is going to try to ease on out from between the rock and a hard place that he finds himself caught in by positioning Solaris x86 as the answer to the market's low-cost computing desires instead of Linux, his chief enemy, and, oh, yes, Microsoft too.

Industry toffs familiar with the days-old strategy compare it to Custer's Last Stand and Don Quixote tilting at windmills and claim Scott can't possibly turn back the inexorable Linux tide threatening to drown him and Sun.

The problem with Sun's thinking, they say, is that it discounts the operating system and believes it's only the enticement of cheap commodity hardware that's …

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