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Sun's Solaris from Venus?

Hewlett-Packard has taken its competition with Sun Microsystems to a new domain: Web logs...

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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.