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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me included.
Having present that Windows is a workstaion/desktop which
is starting to get server computers market, Linux would
only increase its (market?) share by turning itself into
a decent desktop system (Monsieur de La Palisse dixit
However, that isn't hapening since kernel 2.2.10 and
the comunity of developers of Linux can't think has a
bussiness strategy board of directors >> Implement and
finish usability and maintenance aspects first !
like software installation, setup (Control Panel) that
are standard and easy for any user, directory layout, and
sooo many important issues. Unless the owner (Linus
Torvalds) claims something about this (say, binary can only
have this and this to interact with kernel, directory layout
can only be this and this, etc). In pratctice, this might
impossible, but ... I would love to see Linux on the same
level of polishment of Windowsor Apple OS.
Maybe Windows will turn out as a safe and decent modern
server platform after all, maybe even to the mainframes
or clusters.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/clustering/defaul...
I mention this since I found many astronomy and medical
applications in Europe to be written for the windows
platform beneffiting which will use this cluster power.