November 15, 2004 1:20 PM PST
Sun's Solaris from Venus?
Hewlett-Packard has taken its competition with Sun Microsystems to a new domain: Web logs.
Sun, trying to regain some of the prominence it had in the late 1990s, has launched dozens of blogs. And one from Sun's outspoken president, Jonathan Schwartz, has targeted HP in particular.
HP is fighting back. Its top Linux executive, Martin Fink, posted his first blog entry Monday. Called "Solaris is from Venus, Linux is from Mars," the piece poses questions about Sun's operating system.
It's not the first blog from HP--a handful have been posted--but those, like blogs from Microsoft, IBM and Dell, have been geared chiefly toward developers.
Stephen Shankland writes about a wide range of technology and products, but has a particular focus on browsers and digital photography. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux and open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/stshank. 
