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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very interesting article,
but a couple of things to note for sun.. no one who owns a high end sparc would be installing linux on it.. ultimately linux just couldnt provide what suns solutions do provide.
dont get me wrong i love some of sun's stuff. and ultimately hope they dont go under. but suns main selling point has been the ultra sparc 64 bit processors with intel and amd both jumping to 64 bit albeit many years later.. this means sun has to be offering better to compete are there actually any 128 bit processors in existence ? is it actually even possible. or they really need to wisen up and start selling their hardware cheaper.. go onto their site and make your ideal desktop i dont call $50,000 affordable..
why would u play $800 for a dvd rom drive when it only costs £40 for intel/amd hardware..
why linux has ben so well selling well put it this way the x86 hardware they have shown ultimately to be stable enough. x86 servers with uptimes over a year again *bsd is capable of this.. but bsd gpl application wise is always lagging..
about 5 years ago.. companies had choice of either using ms windows. which was and still is notoriously unstable.. with having to reboot to do the smallest things. or nix which required deep pockets but the result was damn solid performance.. but now they have the middle ground.. affordable nix capable of running on nearly any hardware and ultra stable.. which would u buy ?