Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Oct 2006 12:43 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"George Weiss, Gartner's open-source analyst, recently said that Microsoft Windows will not suffer irreparable damage on the server side at the hands of Linux over the next five years. He's right. Microsoft will fall flat on its face all by itself, and Linux will pick up afterwards. It's very simple."
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There is huge interest in OpenSolaris. This weekend at the Ohio LinuxFest, I gave out all 55 OpenSolaris starter kits that I had (Sun was just nearing the end of a batch when I requested) within the first 2.5 hours simply by having them on the corner of my booth and people asking about them. Since I was there from 8AM-5PM (9h), if I can assume straightline extrapolation, I could have given out 200 if I'd had them on hand.
Which ISO would you like? Would that be the Commercial Version (Solaris), that you can download from Sun for free at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp ? Or the advanced release (Solaris Express) that you can download from Sun for free http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.jsp ? Or the developer version (Solaris Express Community Edition/Nevada) that you can download through the OpenSolaris.org website http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=7&PartDetai... ? Or perhaps one of the four community distributions (Belenix, Shillix, Nexenta, MarTux; see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/distributions/) that you can download from various sites?
Solaris does have a lot more to offer in the server space than linux does. Solaris has Dtrace, Zones/Containers, ZFS, a useful threading model, scalability, SMF, FMA/PSH, more available applications, a better support model, lower support costs than RedHat or SuSE.
Linux is a good operating system, and it is great that it is helping people to get better computing than they could get previously. However, it isn't the end all and be all of operating systems. It isn't going to crush all competition until it is the only thing. And, even if it does, then by necessity the various distributions/sellers will continue to drift further and further apart until it is as fragmented as UNIX used to be.