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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Once I did hold hopes that SysVRx - SCO Unixware - could re-establish itself as a competitor to Linux and the *BSD Unix lineage. I thought if Caldera could offer its Unixware and OpenServer clients the SysVRx source code under a version of the BSD license, with support contracts and reductions in support charges for successfully debugging problems, perhaps it could survive.
You know, you do something positive with the source code to show you're an active member of the community, and you get rebates on the membership charges, that sort of thing. I think it would've worked.
Now of course SCO - formerly Caldrea - have chosen Russian Roulette with a fully loaded, well maintained Uzi
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/05/26/1648232.shtml?tid=106&tid=123&...
... Sun has pulled back from that sort of brink, with its begrudging adoption of Linux, and its continued development of Solaris x86.
None of which affects the gradual growth of completely different architectures, such as Syllable, VSTa, OpenBeOS, etc.
I think the completely new software like Syllable, etc, merits watching. I don't think the original Unix is worth anything now.