Version inflation (was: Red Hat's Bluecurve (was: ...))

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 17:26:37 EDT
"Matthew J. Brodeur" said:

>On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>
>> What do mean by that?  Solaris is still on 2.x, 2.9 just got released?
>> 
>> (Remember, it's only the output of 'uname' that matters, since we 
>> tech weenies never pay attention to marketing efforts ;)
>
>   Since we're being picky here, I get to tell you you're wrong.
>
>bash-2.05# uname -sr
>SunOS 5.7
>bash-2.05# uname -a
>SunOS idoru 5.7 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

:(

Looks like Marketing beat up engineering and won!  The last version 
of Solaris I played with was 2.6, where the uname output said 
so.

> The important question is what will they call Solaris after SunOS bumps to 6.x?

That is an interesting question.  My guess, Linux 2.6.x ;)
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