Submission + - Open source drew us to Solaris says Intel
Joris Arjan writes: Open source was behind Intel's decision to add Solaris to its list of supported operating systems. Speaking to reporters in the Asia-Pacific region during a teleconference, Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's server products, said the "open-sourcing of Solaris" changed Intel's mind about the OS. Before this, Intel only supported Windows and Linux on its x86 architecture. Skaugen said: "If you look at the 7 million downloads of OpenSolaris in 2005, almost two-thirds of those were primarily for the Intel architecture, while one-third was for UltraSparc."