Rod Hamilton has made a valid point here on the approach offered by Sun with the Solaris and OpenSolariis operating system and it is affecting the way in which Microsoft (and others) will do business in the operating systems space.

I have argued this point many times before here on this blog, and elsewhere. Sun have made an amazing strategy choice, and it is one that other companies are making good use of, and one that some proponents of the FOSS model applaud.

So I will answer Rod's question - Yes, they