The rush to the security pork is only eclipsed by the ratfuckers attempts on penguins http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=18687260 Sun casts long shadow before major Linux gathering REUTERS [ SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2002 3:20:34 AM ] SAN FRANCISCO: Is there a wolf in penguin's clothing? That is the theme of a spirited discussion among supporters of the Linux operating system, a freely available piece of basic software with a penguin mascot. The wolf potentially lurking just outside the door, some Linux-boosters say, is Sun Microsystems Inc., the high-end computer maker, which is expected to unveil its first general-purpose, low-end Linux machine, and its own version of Linux, on the eve of a major convention for the cooperatively developed software. Linux, which will be debated and celebrated at the Linuxworld exposition in San Francisco Aug. 13-15, must prove itself in the rarefied world of running crucial corporate applications, like huge databases, analysts said. Linux is a new version of Unix, the mainstay corporate operating system, though it does not yet have the reliability and power of older Unix systems, analysts say. "Linux and Unix combined are competing with Microsoft," whose Windows program is graduating from personal computers to powerful servers and which offers its own, mostly-Microsoft view of the world, dubbed .Net," said Pierre Fricke, an analyst at research firm D.H. Browne. Sun also remains one of Microsoft Corp.'s biggest rivals, and its latest move has been blasted in advance by competitors. "They are trying to control something which inherently isn't designed for that sort of control point,"