Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 26th May 2003 23:36 UTC
Linux only has a small percentage of the computing market, however Microsoft already considers it a major competition as the open source OS steals the hearts of many users. Following the hard numbers though, Microsoft also increases its market share on both server and desktop space with time. The only logical explanation is that Linux steals quite a market share from the traditional UNIX providers (SCO, Sun, SGI, HP, IBM). But only Sun seems to truly be in a real Linux trouble, as it is the one with a resistance to Linux integration to its full product range.
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>> Interestingly, Linux users seesm
>> to love to badmouth Sun.
I love SUN, or used to love them. They used to be one of innovative companies around. Thesedays though, about the only thing they do is REACT to microsoft, and maybe IBM. That's not the way to run a company, and that's a lot of people bad-mouth Sun.
Solaris? Great OS, but hey, I walked into a huge ISP this last weekend, and guess what? They are replacing all the Sparc machines with Linux on Intel. Price-wise, Sun hardware has become a looser to Intel. They need to adjust to that reality, and a Linux strategy is the quickest way to do it.